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Over the last four years, the Trump administration has relentlessly rolled back protections for clean air, public lands, and wildlife. An analysis by the Washington Post finds the administration has rolled back more than 125 environmental safeguards, with dozens more in the works.
Last week alone, the administration stripped protections for the gray wolf under the Endangered Species Act and opened up 9.3 million acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest—our nation's largest intact old-growth temperate rainforest—to logging. These rollbacks join a laundry list of actions to reduce public input, weaken environmental reviews, and speed permitting of drilling and mining on public lands.
At the same time, record wildfires and crippling drought have highlighted the impacts of accelerating climate change. "We will have time lost,” said Gina McCarthy, former EPA administrator and current head of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “And if you’re following anything about what’s going on across the country, from wildfires to hurricanes to floods to droughts, we don’t have time available to rebuild this."
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The Trump administration’s reckless disregard for our religious and constitutional rights is embodied in the dynamite and bulldozers now rumbling through our original homelands. Many of our tribal citizens feel they have no choice but to protest these destructive activities. They have been met with tear gas and rubber bullets from law enforcement.”
