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Welcome to our weekly “Trumptastrophe” email series that serves to remind
us of the destructive policies, decisions, and actions we encountered
during the Trump presidency and the threats that he and others in the MAGA
movement still pose – and to keep those moments clear in our memory as we
fight to defeat Republican extremists during the upcoming elections.

This week’s Trumptastrophe focuses on former President Trump and his
administration’s efforts to roll back laws or regulations that were
designed to protect our environment – choosing instead to favor policies
that were harmful for our planet but favorable for businesses:

In June 2017, Trump’s first year in office, The Wall Street Journal noted
that the EPA and Department of the Army [ [link removed] ]were moving to rescind an Obama
administration “waters of the United States” rule designed to protect
rivers, streams, and wetlands from pollution. Four months earlier, Trump
had [ [link removed] ]signed an order requiring the EPA to review the rule, part of his
administration’s effort to prioritize economic growth over environmental
protection. “By reviewing the regulation, the administration can begin to
pick it apart and weaken it,” CNN [ [link removed] ]noted at the time.

The Trump administration did roll back the Obama rule as part of what the
Associated Press called the administration’s “[ [link removed] ]unwinding of hundreds of
environmental and health regulations.” As the AP reported, environmental
and public health advocates said the Trump rule “allowed businesses to
dump pollutants into unprotected waterways and fill in some wetlands,
threatening public water supplies downstream and harming wildlife and
habitat.” Finalized in January 2020, the rule made it [ [link removed] ]easier for
builders and oil and gas drillers to fill in wetlands.

In the fall of 2020, The New York Times [ [link removed] ]reviewed nearly 100
environmental rules being reversed by the Trump administration, reporting
that “All told, the Trump administration’s environmental rollbacks could
significantly increase greenhouse gas emissions over the next decade and
lead to thousands of extra deaths from poor air quality each year,
according to energy and legal analysts.”

A federal judge threw out the Trump rule in August 2021, saying the EPA
had ignored its own findings; a Biden administration review that same year
said the Trump rule had interfered with environmental protection.

In December 2022, the Biden administration [ [link removed] ]finalized a new “waters of
the United States” rule, one of the many administration efforts to
“[ [link removed] ]reinstate environmental protections that were dismantled by the Trump
administration.” Jon Devine, the Natural Resources Defense Council’s
director of federal water policy, said that repealing the Trump rule was a
“smart move” that came during a time of “unprecedented attacks on federal
clean water protections by polluters and their allies."

Attacks on regulations protecting the environment and health would
skyrocket if Trump returns to the White House. The actions of his
administration are clear evidence of that danger. In addition, the
anti-environmentalist agenda laid out by former Trump administration
officials and right-wing organizations in Project 2025 is so dire that
columnist Will Bunch has called the project’s policies a [ [link removed] ]"blueprint for
destroying the planet.”

A Trump administration pursuing the Project 2025 agenda would seek to
maximize fossil fuel production and put a stop to efforts to expand the
role of renewable energy in our electrical grids. It would make
regulation of harmful chemicals more industry-friendly, and revisit the
EPA’s classification of PFAS—so-called “forever chemicals” now widespread
in drinking water—as hazardous substances.

Structural changes to the EPA itself would have the effect of minimizing
the authority of officials with scientific and technical expertise and
putting all EPA decisions under the control of “a tight corps of political
officials,” according to a former EPA official.

Gutting the EPA would be just one consequence of Project 2025’s overall
goal of “institutionalizing Trumpism”—the words of Heritage Foundation
President Kevin Roberts. As we concluded in an [ [link removed] ]article on Project 2025
for Political Research Associates’ “The Public Eye” magazine:

"A returning President Trump or any president who adopts the Project
2025 agenda would undermine the ability of the federal government to
regulate corporate behavior, promote worker safety and shared
prosperity, protect the environment, and more. If the vision of Project
2025 is embraced by the next president, endorsed by the right-wing
Supreme Court majority, and empowered by potential Republican-majority
houses of Congress, Americans could soon find themselves living in a
country where states’ rights further eclipse civil rights and voting
rights, governments strictly enforce “traditional” family structures and
gender roles, and corporations are freer to run roughshod over
individuals and communities."

These are just some of the reasons we need YOU in this
fight. So, find your
favorite way to unwind after reading through this week’s recap, and then
make a plan for how you will fight back this week, this month, this
election cycle.

For members who are interested in sharing the weekly Trumptastrophe
series, [ [link removed] ]you can find all previous editions on our website! This post
will be published by Thursday so you can share with your friends and
family and remind them of the importance of ensuring that Trump is
defeated again this November.

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Thanks for all that you do to defeat Republican extremism.

– People For the American Way

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