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babylonsister

(171,035 posts)
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 10:36 AM Feb 2020

...Advocates Agree: Trump is the Worst President for Our Environment in History

https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2020/trump-worst-president-for-environment-in-history?fbclid=IwAR3qKjLF5_XXnbX01F201TJcv1Rdd8cURh3ozcHZo6OC5Mw32ZiRCMaQQH0#utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

Environmental and Public Health Advocates Agree: Trump is the Worst President for Our Environment in History
Groups blast administration’s record in advance of State of the Union address
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency has signaled it will try to stop states from leading efforts to clean up our air.
February 4, 2020
Washington, D.C. —


Ahead of President Trump’s State of the Union address today, national environmental groups agree: no administration has been worse for our environment or our nation’s public health than this one. The President is expected to greenwash his unprecedented assault on kids’ health and our great outdoors during his address.

Nine leading national organizations offered the following statement:

“Donald Trump’s administration has unleashed an unprecedented assault on our environment and the health of our communities. His policies threaten our climate, air, water, public lands, wildlife, and oceans; no amount of his greenwashing can change the simple fact: Donald Trump has been the worst president for our environment in history. Unfortunately, our children will pay the costs of this president’s recklessness. Our organizations have repeatedly fought back against these attacks and we will continue to fight to ensure that our kids don’t bear the brunt of the Trump administration’s anti-environmental agenda.”


The above statement was offered by Alaska Wilderness League Action, Clean Water Action, Defenders of Wildlife, Earthjustice, EDF Action, Friends of the Earth, League of Conservation Voters, Sierra Club, and The Wilderness Society.

Martin Hayden, Vice President of Policy and Legislation at Earthjustice offered the following statement:

“We see the environmental state of President Trump’s union every day. Assaults on basic safeguards protecting clean air and water. Coal and oil lobbyists installed at the highest levels of government tasked with eviscerating our bedrock environmental laws. Secretive schemes to ensure that the public never gets a chance to hear about or speak out against any of it. The only power that’s restrained these corporate cronies in office is the power of the law — rest assured, Earthjustice will continue to use it to the fullest.”

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...Advocates Agree: Trump is the Worst President for Our Environment in History (Original Post) babylonsister Feb 2020 OP
everything he touches bdamomma Feb 2020 #1
It's not even sarcasm; it's true. nt babylonsister Feb 2020 #2
It's not just that Trump refuses to deal with environmental problems, crickets Feb 2020 #3

bdamomma

(63,801 posts)
1. everything he touches
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 10:43 AM
Feb 2020

dies, I hate the POS

We need to get his ass out, come November 2020. It's a matter of survival now.

smilie omitted.

crickets

(25,952 posts)
3. It's not just that Trump refuses to deal with environmental problems,
Wed Feb 5, 2020, 01:55 PM
Feb 2020

it's that he's tearing up decades of work in environmental safety and public safety legislation as fast as he can go, and circumventing Congress and the people to do it. He's determined to destroy whatever he can get his hands on. smh

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