Dear John,

While Australia is ravaged by climate-change-driven bushfires, Trump is trying
to gut the “Magna Carta of environmental law.”

The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) is one of our most important lines
of defense against the climate crisis. It requires the federal government to
request public input into projects, seek less harmful alternatives, and minimize
the impact on our communities and the environment.

Trump wants to gut NEPA so pipelines and dirty fossil fuel projects can bulldoze
communities while cutting the public out of the process. And to make matters
worse, he’s giving people like you far too little time to weigh in on this
proposal. Congress could help save this critical environmental protection -- but
we need your help to convince it to act.

Tell Congress: Stop Trump from gutting the “Magna Carta of environmental law!”
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NEPA protections have helped stop poorly thought-out, polluting projects across
the country -- from drilling on our public lands to the construction of
industrial facilities that poison our communities.

Now, Trump’s proposed changes to NEPA threaten places like Malheur National
Forest in Oregon, the Bitterroot National Forest in Montana, and the Nantahala
and Pisgah National Forests in North Carolina. And it threatens the ability of
everyday people like you to object to potentially disastrous oil and gas
projects.

The Trump Administration can’t legally enact these changes without seeking
public input. But instead of the allowing the typical 180 days for the public to
weigh in that a major proposal like this usually warrants, it’s only allowing 60
days. This process is clearly designed to give the fossil fuel industry and
other polluters disproportionate influence on the outcome.

Some Members of Congress are fighting back. Democrats in the House of
Representatives are calling for a longer period for public input. But we need
them to keep that drumbeat going and to make sure their constituents understand
that Trump is putting Big Oil’s profits ahead of their communities.

Protect our wild places, cultural landmarks, communities and climate: Stop Trump
from gutting National Environmental Policy Act protections!
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The Trump NEPA plan is nothing but a corporate giveaway justified with a lie.
The administration claims the proposed changes are about “assisting” federal
agencies, “permitting reform,” or “streamlining.” But that is just a misleading
way of saying they want to make it easier to approve dangerous projects in favor
of letting polluters do whatever they want.

Big Polluters and interest groups like the far-right Heritage Foundation have
long dreamed of gutting NEPA. Corporate polluter opposition to NEPA has always
been strong, but our movement is even stronger!

Together we can prevent one of the boldest attacks on not only our environment,
but also on your voice in our government’s decisions, Friend.

Help send 30,000 comments: Tell Congress to demand the Trump Administration
uphold NEPA protections!
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Standing with you,
Lukas Ross,
Senior policy analyst,
Friends of the Earth

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