Dear NRDC Activist,
A few weeks back, we promised we’d file suit to stop the Trump
administration’s new policy that guts the landmark National Environmental
Policy Act (NEPA). Well, we’ve done it.
Last week, a coalition of environmental justice and environmental groups —
represented by NRDC attorneys and joined by other civil rights and
environmental organizations — sued the Trump administration over its
attempt to roll back NEPA.
NEPA is a critical part of our democracy that requires thorough
environmental reviews and public input before major federal projects —
including dangerous fossil fuel infrastructure — can be approved. It
protects the people’s right to speak out against the destructive influence
of polluters and hazardous projects that poison communities today and lock
us into the climate crisis for decades to come.
The Trump administration’s rollback would eliminate environmental reviews
for too many projects, erode government transparency, and thwart public
participation.
The courts are our best bet at stopping the Trump administration from
gutting this landmark environmental protection. So NRDC rushed to court to
defend NEPA alongside environmental justice organizations from around the
country, including:
* [ [link removed] ]The Environmental Justice Health Alliance
* [ [link removed] ]The New Jersey Environmental Justice Alliance
* [ [link removed] ]East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice
* [ [link removed] ]The Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice
* [ [link removed] ]Texas Environmental Justice Advocacy Services
Our litigation partners also include Sierra Club, National Audubon
Society, and the New York Civil Liberties Union.
Be sure to visit the websites of our partners to find out more about their
critical work.
[ [link removed] ]And read all about the Trump administration’s disastrous NEPA rollback
and what NRDC and our allies are doing to stop it at NRDC.org.
Trump’s rollback is a clear example of environmental racism.
Weakening of NEPA will most directly impact low-income communities and
BIPOC communities, who have long faced disproportionate levels of
pollution due to industrial facilities placed in or near their
neighborhoods.
These are the same communities who have been hit the hardest by the
COVID-19 crisis, which is especially critical as preliminary research
shows that long-term exposure to air pollution is associated with higher
death rates from the coronavirus.
Predictably, Trump has decided to double-down on exposing them to
dangerous pollution and continued health risks. NRDC, our partners in the
lawsuit, and our allies across the movement, will do everything in our
power to stop attacks on NEPA.
[ [link removed] ]Find out more about Trump’s disastrous attack on NEPA at NRDC.org and
from the original email we sent you below.
Earlier this year, NRDC and our sister organization, the NRDC Action Fund,
submitted over 100,000 public comments — alongside nearly half a million
more from green and environmental justice groups — opposing Trump’s NEPA
rollback.
Now, we’ll continue the fight to save NEPA in the courts, alongside our
important litigation partners from across the country.
This is NRDC’s 121st lawsuit against the Trump administration — and we’ve
won nearly 90% of the cases that have been resolved — an astounding record
of success fighting back against illegal actions by this president that
harm our environment and public health. And we’re confident that with this
lawsuit, we will prevail again.
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 Activist,
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.
* [ [link removed] ]Read more about this at NRDC.org.
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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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