US air quality dropped during Trump presidency after years of improvement, leading to thousands of premature deaths

A new study shows that air quality in the United States suffered between 2016 and 2018, after seven straight years of improvement starting during the first year of Barack Obama's administration. The rise in pollution— which data shows started in 2016, just before Donald Trump took office and after years of economic recovery in the United States — has led to thousands of premature deaths across the country, according to the economists from Carnegie Mellon University who studied Environmental Protection Agency data from those time periods.

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