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During This Crisis, Trump Issues a “License to Pollute”



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Trump continues his attack on our environment, climate, and public health
protections — even during the worst public health crisis of our lifetimes.



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Dear NRDC Activist,

While the COVID-19 crisis worsens in the U.S and around the world, the
Trump administration is quietly pushing its anti-environment agenda
forward.

At this moment the Trump administration should be focused on making our
country healthier. Instead, it is taking advantage of the unprecedented
global pandemic to do favors for polluters, thereby putting people’s
health at further risk.

This week, the Trump administration gutted clean car standards — strong
pollution and fuel efficiency standards for automobiles that have reduced
massive amounts of toxic air and climate pollution from the nation’s cars
and trucks.

And last week, Trump's EPA announced it is suspending pollution rules —
allowing industrial facilities to stop monitoring and reporting dangerous
air pollution, without penalty, during the COVID-19 crisis.

In other words, amidst a massive public health crisis, President Trump is
drastically rolling back protections for our air, water, climate — and
even our health. Doesn’t this administration have more important things to
do right now?

NRDC is prepared to fight back in court, if necessary. But right now, we
need thousands of NRDC supporters like you to generate a massive public
outcry in opposition to Trump’s reckless litany of anti-regulatory
rollbacks.

[ [link removed] ]So please submit a letter of opposition to the White House and EPA
today: Let them know that you stand for science, our environment, our
health, and our climate — and against these disastrous rollbacks.

The only winner from Trump’s rollback of clean car standards is the oil
industry, which wants us stuck driving dirty gas guzzlers as long as
possible.

Trump's move will dramatically increase air pollution and respiratory
diseases like asthma. It will also lead to an increase of at least 867
million more metric tons of carbon emissions, when our priority needs to
be cracking down on this pollution to fight climate change.

Trump's attack on clean car standards is projected to impose $190 billion
in additional health costs. It will increase the cost of driving by
billions of dollars as the fuel efficiency of automobiles drops. And it
will result in at least 90,000 fewer American jobs in the burgeoning clean
car industry.

Then there’s the EPA’s suspension of regulatory enforcement, which is
nothing short of an open license to pollute. Plain and simple.

Chemical plants, oil and gas operations, power plants, steel mills, coal
plants, and more, can now dump toxic chemicals in our waters and emit
deadly gases and other health-harming pollution into our air, with no
accountability or oversight.

NRDC is going to do all we can to block this nefarious policy, starting
with petitioning the agency to, at the very least, require companies to
publicly disclose when they plan to stop monitoring and reporting their
pollution and emissions.

That’s important because people need accurate and timely information about
pollution in their community in order to protect themselves — especially
in the midst of a pandemic that puts those with heart and lung disease at
higher risk. Monitoring and reporting also serve a critically important
deterrent function. Facilities are more likely to stay within their
pollution limits if they know someone is watching.

There is no “right time” to impose higher health and economics costs on
the people in America — and to do so now, amid a worldwide crisis, is
unconscionable.

[ [link removed] ]We need you standing with us to stop these attacks on our environment
and our economy. So please submit your urgent letter of opposition to the
White House and the EPA right away.

These moves come amid a recent growing onslaught of attacks on strong
science and environmental protections by Trump and his EPA.

Last month, the Trump administration announced its “censoring science”
scheme that would greatly restrict the EPA’s use of the best available
science when setting environmental and public health protections.

And earlier this year, Trump’s EPA moved forward with a plan to roll back
the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — which protects people
against pollution in their communities.

Here at NRDC, we are doing everything in our power to stop the Trump
administration's reckless attacks on our environment, solid science,
public health, and our democracy. But right now, we need your help..

[ [link removed] ]Can we
count on you to take urgent grassroots action and express your opposition
to the Trump administration’s attacks on public health protections, before
it’s too late?

Thanks for standing with us at this critical moment.

Sincerely,

[1]Gina
Gina McCarthy
President, NRDC
[2]Gina McCarthy


The mission of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is to
safeguard the Earth: its people, its plants and animals, and the natural
systems on which all life depends.

[1]Charity [2]BBB
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