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Don't Let Trump Abuse His Emergency Powers to Expedite Oil & Gas Projects



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President Trump is using the national emergencies as an excuse to push
through disastrous polluter projects without environmental review or
public input. Help stop him.



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NRDC Activist,

Americans are crying out for leadership to confront racial violence
against Black people and stop the spread of a deadly pandemic.

But instead of easing the pain of a nation in crisis, President Trump is
focused on easing the pain of polluters.

Under the guise of an "economic emergency," Trump recently signed an
unprecedented executive order that will allow the administration to ram
through polluting projects like pipelines and power plants without
adequate environmental reviews — all to help his big polluter allies.

This disastrous move will wreak havoc on our environment and public
health, further derail our climate progress, and disproportionately harm
communities of color. It's an utterly senseless abuse of emergency power
and it will NOT stimulate our economy, despite Trump's claims.

NRDC is doing everything in our power to fight this pro-polluter giveaway
and we need you standing with us.

[ [link removed] ]Please submit an urgent letter of opposition to the White House right
away: Let Trump and his cabinet cronies know that you see straight through
their pro-polluter scheme and urge them to reverse course at once.

Trump's directive will allow industrial polluters to bypass the review
requirements under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a bedrock
environmental law that ensures a robust environmental review of federal
projects, and that gives a voice to communities who are impacted by them.
And this comes after the Trump administration has already taken steps to
gut NEPA.

Keystone XL... Pebble Mine... fracking on the borders of Chaco Culture
National Historical Park... uranium mining in the Grand Canyon... These
are just a few of the catastrophic projects that could be fast-tracked
with practically no public notice or environmental review under Trump's
order.

Plus, NEPA is one of the few tools communities of color have to protect
themselves against federal projects that disproportionately affect them.
This callous rollback will hit those who live closest to polluting
facilities and highways the hardest — in many of the same communities
already suffering the most from the national emergencies at hand.

Trump's order also weakens standard environmental review requirements
under the Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act — which could have
catastrophic consequences for wildlife already on the brink and put our
drinking water at risk.

[ [link removed] ]Act now: Let the Trump administration know that you see what they're
doing and won't let it stand.

The move is just the latest by the Trump administration to permanently
halt critical protections during the COVID-19 pandemic:

* In April, the EPA began allowing polluters to use COVID-19 as an
excuse to stop monitoring and reporting on their pollution, which NRDC
is now fighting in court
* In May, Trump instructed agencies to roll back or stop enforcing a
wide range of public health and environmental safeguards
* And in June, EPA finalized a rule that will gut critical elements of
the Clean Water Act and make it much more difficult for Indigenous
groups, states, and the public to fight back against polluting
projects like pipelines

Now, Trump is using the thoroughly debunked notion that weakening
environmental laws leads to economic recovery as a smokescreen to push
through projects for his pals in the oil and gas industry without the
public's input.

But the evidence is overwhelming: Cutting environmental protection isn't
going to speed up economic recovery. If anything, it will slow economic
growth while harming communities, ecosystems, the atmosphere, and public
health.

[ [link removed] ]Enough is enough. Help us generate an overwhelming surge of opposition
by submitting a letter of complaint to the White House right away.

Thanks for standing with us at this critical moment.

Sincerely,

[1]Kabir
Kabir Green
Director of Federal Affairs, NRDC


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.

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