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Consumer Confidential: Never mind the facts. White House says it gets an A+ on environmental issues

You may not have known this is National Lead Poisoning Prevention Week, but the Trump administration did. It marked the occasion with a "call to action" aimed at protecting "current and future generations from exposures to lead-containing paint and dust."

I can only assume the White House is punking the American people after months of undermining and throwing out environmental rules and regulations.

"No president has ever cut so many regulations in their entire term, OK, as we have cut in less than a year," President Trump proudly declared in February.

Analysts say that's not true. But the dozens of regulations

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