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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’s efforts to
dismantle state and federal government environmental regulations that
would curb climate change. It also highlights the plans outlined in
Project 2025 that would further jeopardize our climate if Trump is
reelected.

On Sept. 13, 2019, the Trump administration [ [link removed] ]announced plans to open the
environmentally sensitive Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) to oil
and gas exploration, picking what the Washington Post called “the most
aggressive development option for an area long closed to drilling.”

A few days later, Trump [ [link removed] ]announced on Twitter that the administration
was [ [link removed] ]revoking a federal waiver that allows California to set stricter
emissions standards for cars than the national standard, which NPR
[ [link removed] ]called part of “a broader effort by the White House to roll back
efforts to combat climate change.”

Both moves reflected the Trump administration’s dismissive attitude toward
climate change and its impacts on human health and the environment. Both
were denounced by environmental advocates as irresponsible actions that
would worsen the effects of climate change. Earlier in the year,
scientists at the Fish and Wildlife Service [ [link removed] ]charged that the
environmental impact statement drafted by the Bureau of Land Management in
support of ANWR drilling had ignored and downplayed scientific evidence
about climate change.

California’s emission rules, which had been adopted by other states, were
at the center of an agreement the state struck with automakers to continue
to lower emissions even if the Trump administration weakened national
standards. In response to that agreement, Trump’s Justice Department
[ [link removed] ]launched an anti-trust investigation, which it eventually [ [link removed] ]dropped.

California and 22 other states [ [link removed] ]challenged Trump’s emissions action in
court. After voters turned Trump out of office, President Joe Biden’s
administration [ [link removed] ]reversed Trump’s effort to override California vehicle
emissions standards. And earlier this year, the US Court of Appeals for
the DC Circuit [ [link removed] ]rejected an attempt by Texas, Alabama, Ohio, and other
Republican-led states to revoke California’s ability to set stricter
standards.

The Biden administration also [ [link removed] ]paused, [ [link removed] ]suspended, and then
[ [link removed] ]canceled the oil and gas leases in ANWR that were granted by the Trump
administration.

Trump’s two anti-environment actions in September 2019 are a reminder that
he and the right-wing political infrastructure that is working to put him
back in power are deeply invested in denying the reality of climate
change, its causes, and its harmful impacts.

One of the significant [ [link removed] ]dangers in the [ [link removed] ]Project 2025 policy
agenda prepared by former Trump administration officials and other MAGA
activists is its call for a “whole-of-government unwinding” of what it
calls “the Biden Administration’s climate fanaticism.” As the New York
Times [ [link removed] ]noted, “[t]he plan calls for shredding regulations to curb
greenhouse gas pollution from cars, oil and gas wells and power plants,
dismantling almost every clean energy program in the federal government
and boosting the production of fossil fuels.”

Project 2025 “could decimate the federal government’s climate work, stymie
the transition to clean energy and shift agencies toward nurturing the
fossil fuel industry rather than regulating it,” Politico [ [link removed]'s%20car%20pollution%20standards%3B%20and ]concluded.

Project 2025’s [ [link removed] ]policy agenda is filled with anti-environmental
propaganda as well as plans to undermine environmental protection in favor
of industry-friendly policies. In its foreword, Heritage Foundation’s
MAGA-minded President Kevin Roberts dismisses environmentalism as a
“pseudo-religion meant to baptize liberals’ ruthless pursuit of absolute
power in the holy water of environmental virtue.” Roberts’ language mimics
anti-environmental rhetoric [ [link removed] ]deployed over the years by
[ [link removed] ]fossil-fuel-funded Christian-right political groups [ [link removed] ]denouncing the
environmental movement as a “Green Dragon” and a “[ [link removed] ]false religion.”

Taken together, Trump’s actions as president, Project 2025’s plans for a
future Trump administration, and Trump’s promise to “drill, baby, drill!”
are a huge red flag about the enormous stakes in this election for
Americans and for every person on the planet.

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 MAGA Republicans.

– People For the American Way

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