STORY STILL DEVELOPING ... Last Thursday, in what is set to be one of the most damaging and far-reaching environmental decisions of this presidency, the Trump administration officially proposed to gut the National Environmental Policy Act.

NEPA is one of the most important tools the environmental movement has to highlight the damage that heavily polluting projects would cause and demonstrate the public's opposition to them. Under the new rule, agencies will no longer need to consider climate change when approving highways, pipelines, and other infrastructure proposals.

Now, policy insiders are saying this will apply to offshore drilling projects as well. Coastal states are bracing for a new wave of organizing to prevent these projects from getting the green light.

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This attack is also deeply inequitable: The communities most likely to be near environmentally hazardous federal projects and exposed to air and water pollution are communities of color and Indigenous communities. Gutting NEPA would silence frontline voices and further entrench environmental racism.

I hope to hear from you today — because we need to move quickly. There is a 60-day window for public comment that the Trump administration is supposed to weigh before their proposed change to NEPA can take effect. We're mobilizing to flood House and Senate offices with letters. We're organizing environmental activists in key states. We're going to overwhelm federal agencies with public comments.

How fast we can move — and how big we can go — depends on you, friend.

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– LCV Policy Team