BREAKING: Trump Silences the Public to Help Polluters
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The Trump administration is trying to gut a landmark environmental law to
silence us from having a voice against disastrous polluting projects like
pipelines, coal mines, highways, and incinerators in our communities.
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Dear NRDC Action Fund Supporter,
While America faces the crises of the COVID-19 pandemic and its history of
racism and inequity, President Trump is pushing ahead with an
anti-environmental assault that would exacerbate both challenges in one
fell-swoop.
The Trump administration just finalized its disastrous rollback of the
National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) — a landmark law that empowers
people to make their voices heard about hazardous projects in their
communities and stop pollution in their own backyards.
This attack on NEPA is an attack on democracy, our environment, our
climate, and YOUR voice.
And NRDC will respond immediately, taking the Trump administration to
court if that's what it takes to stop this reckless assault on one of the
pillars of environmental law. And we couldn't respond so effectively
without the support of NRDC supporters like you — thank you.
[ [link removed] ]Get all the facts about Trump's harmful attacks on NEPA, and how NRDC
and our allies and partners are fighting back, and more at NRDC.org.
If Trump's NEPA rollback is allowed to stand, disastrous polluting
projects — like coal mines, highways, incinerators, oil and gas drilling
operations, and pipelines — could be expedited with little-to-no
environmental review, public input, or analysis of long-term impacts on
the environment, our climate, or the people who live near these projects.
Make no mistake: this rollback is a clear attempt to silence people and
make it easier for industry to pollute our communities.
And it will further marginalize low-income communities, Black communities,
Indigenous communities, and communities of color who already suffer
disproportionately from the adverse health impacts of industrial pollution
— and who have been hit the hardest by the COVID-19 crisis. This is
especially critical as preliminary health studies suggest that long-term
exposure to air pollution is associated with higher death rates from the
coronavirus.
NEPA gives people the right to weigh in before a highway project tears up
their neighborhood or a pipeline goes through their backyard. Steamrolling
their concerns will mean more polluted air, more contaminated water, more
health threats, and more environmental destruction — and it will encourage
the government to ignore how massive polluting projects contribute to
climate change.
We must — and will — do everything in our power to stop the Trump
administration's rollback and save NEPA, including fighting back in
federal court if necessary.
This dangerous new rollback comes weeks after another sweeping executive
order that prods administration officials to ram through polluting
projects without public notice, let alone adequate environmental reviews.
And it comes amid an onslaught of other Trump administration rollbacks
over the past few months — including a move that could allow industrial
polluters to evade penalties if they unlawfully fail to monitor and report
on their pollution during the coronavirus crisis.
NRDC is fighting many of these rollbacks in court — just as we'll fight to
save NEPA as well, if that's what it takes. NRDC has filed 118 lawsuits
against the Trump administration. With the law on our side, we've won
nearly 90 percent of the cases resolved so far.
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Thank you for standing with us at this critical moment.
Sincerely,
Sharon Buccino
Senior Director, Land Division, 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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