Remember this who voted for the clown, that your children and their children will suffer the consequences while you lie smoldering in your graves. They will blame you and NOT the government.
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48 steps backward, eh!
Go Trump! Master of Nothing, Lord of Vanity, Beggar of Acceptance, Loser at Large.
Go Trump! Master of Nothing, Lord of Vanity, Beggar of Acceptance, Loser at Large.
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When you legislate from the executive branch, this is what happens. Next time, maybe the dems will try passing some actual laws by the actual Congress. And please don't whine about the obstructionist repubs. Politicians are there to deal. Obama's supreme arrogance stood in the way of getting anything done. It still amazes me that he's so revered. Eight years and all he has to show for it is obamacare? (Which should really just be called what it is - The Great Medicaid Expansion).
Pathetic.
Pathetic.
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Oh, the poor fossil fuel industry. They can't destroy the planet fast enough?
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This is really the worst part of his presidency.
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Please note: this is not just Donald Trump and his ignorance. And it has nothing to do with his voters. This is the will of well-educated, well-heeled clear thinking -- greedy people. They value money over the natural world, peace among nations, enough food and clean water for all, and a decent future for their grandchildren. Trump you can explain. His cabinet and the lobbyists -- you can't.
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What an insult to sanity, to sensible regulations to assure our freedom via some discipline in protecting Mother Earth. Trump is an awful liability to our health, unscrupulous and irresponsible in allowing polluters to get away with 'murder'.
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vote.
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Polluting our lands, a moron president, lying healthcare/tax reformers, unsupported education, tech world that thinks they are above it all, guns galore...
Russia need not bother-- we are already our own worst enemy.
Russia need not bother-- we are already our own worst enemy.
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All those people who voted for Mickey Mouse every Presidential election have finally gotten their wish.
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Russian meddling was, and is, significant but what about Koch brothers meddling? It's amazing how much of this deregulation comes straight from their agenda. The Koch brothers have called for the elimination of the EPA for years and have donated millions to Pruitt.
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Scott Pruitt is doing more to harm the average American citizen than anyone in the Trump administration. Meeting daily wth industry executives? Why? Isn't his job to protect the environment, which belongs to all of us? These damaging actions need to be more widely publicized.
This country has been fighting for environmental protections for 50 years and the results are measurable. I agree with others that there have been some set backs along the way, but we have fought too long and hard for this narrow-minded, shill for industry to take us back to the 1960s.
This country has been fighting for environmental protections for 50 years and the results are measurable. I agree with others that there have been some set backs along the way, but we have fought too long and hard for this narrow-minded, shill for industry to take us back to the 1960s.
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Should be shared with every millennial who is concerned about the environment - but didn't bother to vote in the 2016 presidential election
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It will take a generation to reverse this blatant destruction of the environment. How many children will get asthma, suffer from lead poisoning, or succumb to some form of carcinogen in the air or water? Our world is becoming a dystopian nightmare.
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As far as I can tell there is only one perspective here - the Human. Where are the rights of nature and the other biology that lives on this planet? What about their rights? Who speaks for the animals in who are just trying to live their lives out on this Earth no different than us?
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Where are all those suburban women so concerned about their children that a vaccine is a threat? Where are their voices on chemical poisoning of those offspring? Where are those offspring's grandparents on same? Where are the religious leaders since these poisons are clearly anti Biblical? Where are all the people who have jobs in non coal industries who have fewer jobs? Crazy. Evil too.
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It seems the EPA is an environmental disaster. Trump must not care about his youngest son or his grandchildren. Of course not, it has become clear that he only loves his lonely self. SAD.
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I am looking forward to the day when Americans Erase Trump from our politics and history.
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Re: "Mr. Pruitt initially delayed the compliance deadline for a 2015 national ozone standard, but reversed course after 15 states and the District of Columbia sued."
You may want to point out the Administration is still delaying the compliance deadlines for the ozone standard. The deadline for setting air quality designations for the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standard was October 1, 2017. So far, no designations, and thus a de facto delay in implementing this standard.
You may want to point out the Administration is still delaying the compliance deadlines for the ozone standard. The deadline for setting air quality designations for the 2015 ozone national ambient air quality standard was October 1, 2017. So far, no designations, and thus a de facto delay in implementing this standard.
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The principle of equity demands there be parity between the environmental policy of the USA and the rest of the world.
The US economy -- with its globalized supply-chains -- is responsible for massive environmental degradation in countries with far weaker regulatory and enforcement systems -- one of the principle reasons American multinationals exploit these jurisdictions, outsourcing their polluting production activities.
Why should Americans enjoy an exceptionally pristine environment when their lifestyles and purchasing decisions are disproportionately responsible for environmental degradation globally?
Two wrongs don't make a right, but hopefully these recent incredibly short-sighted and destructive policy decisions will serve to catalyze action -- and globally, across all environments impacted by poorly-regulated supply chains feeding American consumer appetites.
The US economy -- with its globalized supply-chains -- is responsible for massive environmental degradation in countries with far weaker regulatory and enforcement systems -- one of the principle reasons American multinationals exploit these jurisdictions, outsourcing their polluting production activities.
Why should Americans enjoy an exceptionally pristine environment when their lifestyles and purchasing decisions are disproportionately responsible for environmental degradation globally?
Two wrongs don't make a right, but hopefully these recent incredibly short-sighted and destructive policy decisions will serve to catalyze action -- and globally, across all environments impacted by poorly-regulated supply chains feeding American consumer appetites.
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Today, I talked with a trump voter who very much regrets his vote. He can see that trump is dividing this country. The Repubs are misjudging the electorate on how many of them appreciate clean air and water. This man is a hunter and fisherman and regularly hikes with his family. He said he can see the climate changing.
Democrats need to reach out to these voters who regret their vote for trump. And there must be a lot of them!
Democrats need to reach out to these voters who regret their vote for trump. And there must be a lot of them!
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So the horrendous effects of these rollbacks don't disappear, I would love to see some universities start immediately to organize research on how each rollback affects both the general population and each specific population. It is understandable how the insidious effects of these moves will fade from our view and we won't know the long term effects. We can't let that happen.
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How come I keep hearing and reading that President Trump hasn't accomplished anything or gotten anything done since his term began??? This is NEWS!!
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He may have accomplished something, but its more like deconstructed and destroyed.
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Because its bad news Circumspect. If you understood the article then it would be clear that big polluters want it to be sweep under the rug. Don't mind the bad air dirty water and spoiled land that the EPA was created to prevent.
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So now, whom is the one creating fake news, could it be Donald J Trump to distract us from his nefarious acts? We have a grifter for a president.
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This really scares the crap out of me. Until I read this piece I was under the impression that the Trump administration didn't get much done. Apparently they are flying far reaching changes well under the public radar, helped by the fact that we get bombarded by one outrageous Trumpact after the other. Getting these environmental protection rules in place took decades, mainly because of fighting the Big-Bucks. It will again take decades to get overturned rules back in place again, too late for us older folks and too late for our children.
A desperate plea to The New York Times; Please keep these articles with big fat letters on your front page! Free journalism seems to be the only thing left to keep us from descend back into the eighteen hundreds and the ascent of a new breed of robber barons.
A desperate plea to The New York Times; Please keep these articles with big fat letters on your front page! Free journalism seems to be the only thing left to keep us from descend back into the eighteen hundreds and the ascent of a new breed of robber barons.
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I'd like to extend my heartfelt thoughts and prayers to the american people.
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Obama over regulated, Trump deregulates. We're even.
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You're wrong. Obama tried to bring us to the present. Trump wants to return to the 50's. Yes, there will be an increase in new jobs. But they will cost. We are not investing in a clean future, which would also create jobs. Enjoy the sugar rush but don't be surprised if you choke on it.
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Nature disagrees. She is very angry to hear that America will be dumping more poisons into her air and water.
Mother Nature Bats Last. (Even though *some* humans think they control her!)
Mother Nature Bats Last. (Even though *some* humans think they control her!)
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Joe
Well, no.
You're assuming Obama started from zero. We were deep in the negative, and he never managed to get us back to healthy thanks to know-nothing legislators.
Trump just threw us back in the hole.
Well, no.
You're assuming Obama started from zero. We were deep in the negative, and he never managed to get us back to healthy thanks to know-nothing legislators.
Trump just threw us back in the hole.
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Trump's environmental policies will kill more Americans than 9/11.
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Crimes against humanity. We, the people, must drain the swamp now.
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Why does Trump want to pollute the earth his grandchildren will grow up in - imagine the destructive impact on our planet when Eric Trump's newborn is an adult!
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Trump is so sick, and so wrong. There are urban communities in our Nation where you can pour a glass of water from the kitchen tap, and then light it on fire. I would like to see Mr. Trump drink THAT water.
Trump worships money and power. He cares nothing for a healthy, clean environment. Pruitt's gutting of the EPA shows that all too clearly.
Without clean water, and clean air, we are all dead. Trump thinks he is above all that, and that he can just seal himself into Mar A Lago's luxury. What a creep. Every day, every week, Trump makes the World less safe and more filthy.
Trump worships money and power. He cares nothing for a healthy, clean environment. Pruitt's gutting of the EPA shows that all too clearly.
Without clean water, and clean air, we are all dead. Trump thinks he is above all that, and that he can just seal himself into Mar A Lago's luxury. What a creep. Every day, every week, Trump makes the World less safe and more filthy.
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Bad job, NYT editors. This list does not indicate which rules have been overturned by the Congressional Review Act (meaning they cannot be revived by the executive branch), and which rules are simply overturned by executive action--and could be revived by a new administration. After producing so many articles on the Congressional Review Act and its significance, where were you in the editing process of this piece?
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Huzzah! The dark days of over-regulating our beleaguered economy are over.
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These harmful actions were not invented by Trump. They come directly from the GOP and he is just signing whatever they tell him. Trump cannot concentrate long enough to come up with these reversals and write them down. People should not lose sight of that and remember it well in November, 2018. The problem is not mostly Trump, it is mostly the GOP. Do not allow the GOP to use Trump as their cover.
On one specific point, I always thought it was a huge mistake of Obama to bail out the automakers. Look at how they are now complaining about fuel efficiency standards that are "costly". That is rich, given that one reason for their problems before the bailout was almost certainly that nobody outside of the US buys American cars because people don't feel like paying for a gas guzzler. This has cost the American auto industry millions of dollars and it explains why you rarely see American cars on your trips abroad. American automakers, along with the rest of the country, is getting stuck in the past. Perhaps that explains why everybody in congress is over 60 years old or worse. That's on another thing you won't see either in other advanced nations.
On one specific point, I always thought it was a huge mistake of Obama to bail out the automakers. Look at how they are now complaining about fuel efficiency standards that are "costly". That is rich, given that one reason for their problems before the bailout was almost certainly that nobody outside of the US buys American cars because people don't feel like paying for a gas guzzler. This has cost the American auto industry millions of dollars and it explains why you rarely see American cars on your trips abroad. American automakers, along with the rest of the country, is getting stuck in the past. Perhaps that explains why everybody in congress is over 60 years old or worse. That's on another thing you won't see either in other advanced nations.
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If I could scrap fossil fuels, I would.
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Environmental deregulation, and as swiftly as possible, is more than just a swipe at President Obama, notwithstanding that much of what Trump does is indeed a racial attack against a black president.
Environmental deregulation is primarily meant to deliver a sugar-high of a few jobs at which Trump will point in 2018 and 2020 as "success" in Making America Great Again. The costs of cleanups will return on someone else's watch, not his. Worker abuse cases and hazardous exposure cases will also come due later. Sustainability of many resources will be shortened -- again, these are costs that will come due down the line.
Environmental protection? Patient protection? Nothing must trump Trump's reelection.
Environmental deregulation is primarily meant to deliver a sugar-high of a few jobs at which Trump will point in 2018 and 2020 as "success" in Making America Great Again. The costs of cleanups will return on someone else's watch, not his. Worker abuse cases and hazardous exposure cases will also come due later. Sustainability of many resources will be shortened -- again, these are costs that will come due down the line.
Environmental protection? Patient protection? Nothing must trump Trump's reelection.
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Get him out of the Oval Office. Put maximal pressure and public exposure on a President Pence to restrain his worst tendencies. Elect a New Democratic president and turn over the Congress. One hopes Justice Kennedy will enable these changes by ruling against the most partisan gerrymandering.
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Although Trump has opened the floodgates in taking us back 50+ years in environmental quality, safety, etc. remember that some of the most harmful regulatory lapses came during the Bush Administration. I'm thinking specifically about the frackers being allowed to not disclose just exactly what it is they're injecting into those wells, because they're "proprietary trade secrets".
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/facts-fracking-chemical-disclosure/
http://www.factcheck.org/2017/04/facts-fracking-chemical-disclosure/
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So, Trump has signaled that he enjoyed the recent excitement in Houston and Florida (and Puerto Rico, as if that matters) and he wants more.
Trump has signaled he intents to keep rebuilding, and rebuilding, and rebuilding shore mansions. With my money.
Trump seems to be implying he will rush in with financial support for bright red Alaska when their hunting, fishing, and tourism industries collapse because, well, everything worth shooting is extinct.
Trump appears to be exploring the viability of using the Grand Canyon as a waste dump, which will cleverly solve many pressing problems. How else to interpret the combination of Canyon's edge mining and exploration, encouragement for expansion of the empty water bottle plague, and pending rollbacks of regulation and funding for all parks?
Trump is hinting that he is prepared to spend mega-infrastructure bucks to raise every road in Florida by three feet, to move New Orleans up country, and to basically forget Houston and other sea level cities based upon his hearty endorsement of climate change and his promotion atmospheric pollution (no worries, we're gonna have the best health care ever).
He seems to be hedging on the developing world wide conflict over water. It appears he will avoid our involvement by assuring ours is too polluted to drink. Smart man.
It looks like major light at the end of our national tunnel. Thank God.
Trump has signaled he intents to keep rebuilding, and rebuilding, and rebuilding shore mansions. With my money.
Trump seems to be implying he will rush in with financial support for bright red Alaska when their hunting, fishing, and tourism industries collapse because, well, everything worth shooting is extinct.
Trump appears to be exploring the viability of using the Grand Canyon as a waste dump, which will cleverly solve many pressing problems. How else to interpret the combination of Canyon's edge mining and exploration, encouragement for expansion of the empty water bottle plague, and pending rollbacks of regulation and funding for all parks?
Trump is hinting that he is prepared to spend mega-infrastructure bucks to raise every road in Florida by three feet, to move New Orleans up country, and to basically forget Houston and other sea level cities based upon his hearty endorsement of climate change and his promotion atmospheric pollution (no worries, we're gonna have the best health care ever).
He seems to be hedging on the developing world wide conflict over water. It appears he will avoid our involvement by assuring ours is too polluted to drink. Smart man.
It looks like major light at the end of our national tunnel. Thank God.
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Contact your Senators and House member by email (you can find their contact pages by going either to www.senate.gov or www.house.gov) and send them the link to this article. Urge them to stop this rollback, and to also do something about the one-sided meetings Pruitt has been having with industry lobbyists and corporations while shutting out representatives of environmental protection organizations. Don't just comment here. Donate to environmental organizations who are fighting the good fight.
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It's a systematic purposeful rejection of the EPA, it's legislative mandates, and purpose. It is the definition of an executive that refuses to fulfill their oath to dutifully effect the laws of the nation. Every single one of these actions requires public comment, and should also require a lawsuit by NRDC, EDF, Sierra Club, and others.
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As someone once said: "Elections have consequences." If Obama had taken the time and effort to get his agenda into legislation, it wouldn't have been so easy to reverse what he did.
But woe is us. With Obama's regulations eliminated we'll be back to the dark ages under Bush, when you couldn't breathe the air, your water was poisonous, and everyone was living in a SuperFund site.
But woe is us. With Obama's regulations eliminated we'll be back to the dark ages under Bush, when you couldn't breathe the air, your water was poisonous, and everyone was living in a SuperFund site.
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The detrimental, long-term effect of Trump's reckless actions with respect to the environment will be felt by future generations. They will ask how we let this happen.
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Backsliding while squandering public funds on unnecessary costly charter flights:
"Zinke, who has recommended that the Katahdin national monument in northern Maine be opened to “active timber management,” is being investigated by the department’s inspector general for his use of chartered flights, including a $12,375 trip from Las Vegas to his home state of Montana."
This is blatant mismanagement of our natural resources. The rules are there to protect our heritage for future generations. Deeply disturbing.
"Zinke, who has recommended that the Katahdin national monument in northern Maine be opened to “active timber management,” is being investigated by the department’s inspector general for his use of chartered flights, including a $12,375 trip from Las Vegas to his home state of Montana."
This is blatant mismanagement of our natural resources. The rules are there to protect our heritage for future generations. Deeply disturbing.
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This administration is not only rolling back the progress of the Obama era, they're rolling back the hard-fought, hard-won progress of four or five decades. And it's not only in the environmental legislation they pass or overturn, it's also in the things they ignore -- like studies to assess how sections of border wall under construction will endanger animal populations and, by extrapolation, entire ecosystems.
If only the toxins, carcinogens, animal carcasses and all intangible ill-effects of the Trump/Pruitt actions could be gathered up, shipped and deposited into Trump's and Pruitt's homes... If they and their greedy benefactors want to rape the earth, they and they alone should suffer the ill effects of drinking toxic water, breathing toxic air and eating toxic food. The rest of us want no part of that.
If only the toxins, carcinogens, animal carcasses and all intangible ill-effects of the Trump/Pruitt actions could be gathered up, shipped and deposited into Trump's and Pruitt's homes... If they and their greedy benefactors want to rape the earth, they and they alone should suffer the ill effects of drinking toxic water, breathing toxic air and eating toxic food. The rest of us want no part of that.
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There are nasty, greedy men in this world. Most of the world's fossil fuel company executives are in this category although many of them have developed charming personalities to hide their avarice. It is patently obvious that men who place "shareholder" (a euphemism for "my wealth") value above the value of our environment, the lives of human beings and the welfare of all, are nasty, greedy men. Unfortunately, we have a President who fits in that category. We now see the results of his being elected and what it really means to the human race, not just America. It is astonishing that men such as this exist, but they do and they are powerful. Think about it. What could you do to ever so slightly change this?
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But none of them could ever get to become that way without all the help of those who bought and used their stuff.
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These short-sighted, venal fossil fuel executives (and their lobbyists and politicians) cannot insulate themselves and their families from the damage that they are causing the planet. Eventually, they, too, will pay a steep price, and all the riches in the world will not save them.
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Sleestak
Somehow, that's not helping me feel any better.
Somehow, that's not helping me feel any better.
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Trump et al will kill far more people through environmental degradation than all the mass shooters, terrorists, and serial killers combined.
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Even among all the other ways we are destroying ourselves, these seem to me to be the most egregious. Apparently we don't have enough lead in the environment or mercury in the water supply. What's a little more methane anyway? And who do those marine mammals think they are?
Even many conservatives should be outraged at these atrocities.
Even many conservatives should be outraged at these atrocities.
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Those darn whales, dolphins and turtles are always getting in the way of my yacht!
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Enough is enough!
A few things we can do now. We must assume that trump will be in office for his first term, perhaps even a second. Ugh.
We cannot fall back on the thought that he will be impeached.
Fellow Americans, this attack on our beautiful planet must be stopped. Please investigate the myriad environmental groups and donate a small amount. To get you started, here are some recommendations: Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Earthjustice (my favorite), 350.org, Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
And to our nation's environmental groups - please, I ask that all of you join forces and pool your resources to launch a major media campaign. Let's see some 30 second spots that directly portray what the trump administration is doing. Plus, let's get a team of scientists, biologists, experts, etc. to speak on the subject of trump's environmental roll-backs and the dire consequences. The time is now to flood the airwaves.
While we may have already passed the tipping point when it comes to climate change, there is plenty we can do to stop the awful humans who currently occupy our White House.
A few things we can do now. We must assume that trump will be in office for his first term, perhaps even a second. Ugh.
We cannot fall back on the thought that he will be impeached.
Fellow Americans, this attack on our beautiful planet must be stopped. Please investigate the myriad environmental groups and donate a small amount. To get you started, here are some recommendations: Defenders of Wildlife, Sierra Club, Earthjustice (my favorite), 350.org, Audubon Society, The Nature Conservancy, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).
And to our nation's environmental groups - please, I ask that all of you join forces and pool your resources to launch a major media campaign. Let's see some 30 second spots that directly portray what the trump administration is doing. Plus, let's get a team of scientists, biologists, experts, etc. to speak on the subject of trump's environmental roll-backs and the dire consequences. The time is now to flood the airwaves.
While we may have already passed the tipping point when it comes to climate change, there is plenty we can do to stop the awful humans who currently occupy our White House.
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Another thing that will help some of these situations is to lobby your governor and state legislators to enact rules at the state level wherever possible. This not only can make those states safer, but also can tilt the economics away from those who would pollute and potentially help more broadly.
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It likely takes 20-30 years to move from recognition of a problem to actions on the ground to mitigate it significantly. From gathering sufficient data; convincing the public that its important; getting congress to move; the delay between signing and action; and the delay between start of action and the effects.
These changes are things that will take decades to undo. If there's anything left to save at that time.
These changes are things that will take decades to undo. If there's anything left to save at that time.
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E-mail, tweet and post on social media to everyone you know. The Con Don and his Robber Baron brethren are intent on destroying the planet along with OUR lives.
WE THE PEOPLE, working together, are the only ones who will stop them.
WE THE PEOPLE, working together, are the only ones who will stop them.
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Well you must understand that to an Industrialist or Capitalist, all and any natural resources are there to be exploited. Then after everything in the environment here has been completely tapped and or destroyed, the wealthy, who benefited from this eco-pillage, will jump into their jets and move to their ranches in New Zealand or private islands where ever. This is their plan. They. Don't. Care.
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Thank you, New York Times, for your reporting on this and all environmental issues. Please tell us how we can stop the Trump administration from undoing these critical environmental regulations! It is so devastating to learn about the evil they are doing and so devastating to feel powerless to stop it.
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Comment on rulemakings! The agency proposing a rule (including rules to roll back protections) must allow a public comment period and must respond to all substantive comments. Explain specifically why this rule will hurt you, or your family, or your business, or your town. If the agency doesn't do a good enough job responding, it can provide a legal basis to hinder or undo the rule.
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This is sickening. So much destruction, and all for the short-term enrichment of a few.
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It's discouraging how few comments there are on this truly horrendous undoing of environmental protections. The bickering and name calling and endless discussions in media about who said what is almost deliberately staged to have Americans not notice the truly serious ramifications of policies behind shuttered doors that radically affect our future and our descendants' planet. And all in the name of greed, rapacious greed.
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Make American Gasp and Gag Again.
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Does anyone else feel like the cartoon villains have escaped their comic book and taken over our country?
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Here are some of the environmental groups that have sued Trump:
Sierra Club
Natural Resources Defense Council
Center for Biological Diversity
Greenpeace
Alaska Wilderness League
Wilderness Society
DONATE TO THEM!!!!!
Sierra Club
Natural Resources Defense Council
Center for Biological Diversity
Greenpeace
Alaska Wilderness League
Wilderness Society
DONATE TO THEM!!!!!
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Donald Trump, and by extension his minions in Cabinet positions, has only one policy objective:
Destroy everything that bears the imprint of Barack Obama, the man Trump lied about over and over about not being born here, not being a citizen.
Whatever racist sentiments he holds in his heart, Trump the narcissist cannot get past having been made fun of by Obama, and must destroy everything Obama worked to create. This is the sum total of his ambitions (well, okay, sure, making more money is in there too).
Trump acts as though he is still on the junior-high playground, and as though he believes in all seriousness the bumper sticker slogan "He who dies with the most toys, wins."
Destroy everything that bears the imprint of Barack Obama, the man Trump lied about over and over about not being born here, not being a citizen.
Whatever racist sentiments he holds in his heart, Trump the narcissist cannot get past having been made fun of by Obama, and must destroy everything Obama worked to create. This is the sum total of his ambitions (well, okay, sure, making more money is in there too).
Trump acts as though he is still on the junior-high playground, and as though he believes in all seriousness the bumper sticker slogan "He who dies with the most toys, wins."
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Trump & Co. please note: it's the EPA (Environmental PROTECTION Agency), not the EDA (Environmental DESTRUCTION Agency).
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how many lives are now in jeopardy to protect profits?
I mean really, since 1970 the country has moved to protect itself from polluters and why are they being reversed?
Madness!!!
I mean really, since 1970 the country has moved to protect itself from polluters and why are they being reversed?
Madness!!!
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Man, that's depressing. What can we do? I donate to various environmental organizations. I write to conservative congress members (Tom McClintock here in CA). I vote. And yet, we lose. Something in the back of my brain says, 'just wait, eventually they'll see.' Of course, by then the environment will be in much worse condition. Thank you for your reporting.
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Too bad this destruction of our environment does not get more attention across all news and social media. The younger generations are going to grow up in a world made foul by the ignorance, greed and lack of decency of the current administration and a complicit business world. Sad, really sad!!
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A few wealthy and healthy at the expense of the multitudes and the planet at large...what a bargain, but at least Wall St is responding.
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The name of the Agency and its Charter should be overturned.
Name it something like the CPPA (Corporate Profit Protection Agency)
Name it something like the CPPA (Corporate Profit Protection Agency)
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THANK YOU for sharing this information in such a clear fashion. This should be SHARED widely on Social Media.
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People keep talking about how the Trump administration has not been making progress on their agenda, but that's not the case when it comes to undoing environmental regulations. I wish more people were aware of this.
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Once again, thank you, thank you, thank you. We need more of these stories to know what's really going on behind those closed doors.
While Trump tweets, the nation burns.
While Trump tweets, the nation burns.
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He is always in favor of name calling. Labeling people. He needs a label that depicts his actions against this country's environment. Like"NO-POTUS",The I Only Like Green in My Money and Golf Courses President, The I Only Drink Bottled Water, So Who Cares If Your Water Is Poisoned President?" "The I Think All The People Believe Me President,and Really Who Cares President?" And finally"I'm Not A Big Outdoors Sort Of Guy, Unless it's On My Properties and I'm Making Money! President " We are witnessing the destruction of our ecosystems and it's all on this guy. I hope some of his republican colleagues are benefiting from the catastrophic situations we will all find ourselves in. Actually, our state is still trying to clean up coal ash pond failings around our state ,thanks to Duke Power, who former Republican Governor McCrorie worked for. And guess who is going to pay for the clean up? Oh , we are the customers. Republicans like the toxic waste, must have money behind it.
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Who gains the most from de-regulation? Large corporations, their shareholders, their lobbyists and the politicians whose campaigns they finance, i.e. the 1%. Who loses? The rest of the world, especially the future generations that will inhabit it.
This is the central plank in the Trumpublican wealth-redistribution platform. Sorry, kids.
This is the central plank in the Trumpublican wealth-redistribution platform. Sorry, kids.
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Trump is on his way out.
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Yesterday, a senior Department of the Interior analyst resigned after writing a scathing letter to the head of the agency, Ryan Zinke, accusing him of being shackled to fossil fuel special interests, endangering American lives, and wasting taxpayer money on a grand scale.
“You have played fast and loose with government regulations to score points with your political base at the expense of American health and safety. Secretary Zinke, your agenda profoundly undermines the DOI's mission and betrays the American people.”
There's much more detail in his resignation letter. Why isn't the NYT reporting on this?
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/10/04/scientist-from-maine-resigns-over-...
“You have played fast and loose with government regulations to score points with your political base at the expense of American health and safety. Secretary Zinke, your agenda profoundly undermines the DOI's mission and betrays the American people.”
There's much more detail in his resignation letter. Why isn't the NYT reporting on this?
http://www.pressherald.com/2017/10/04/scientist-from-maine-resigns-over-...
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Yeah, why isn't this covered?
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Thank you very much for this post.
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It's a sad day, indeed, when our President and his cronies move to destroy so many protections for our people, our wildlife, air, and water. This is what happens when the only value they have for these things is monetary; how much money can we make from this? These are truly despicable people that somehow got put into power. I hope we can survive their term.
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What is the vision here? I assume it is to destroy the environment and endanger both people's lives and the lives of our remaining wildlife and fauna for the sake of vindictiveness and greed. Can't think of any other reason why this would be done. Here's to the GOP and its party of death and destruction!
I assume Pruitt and Trump that your families will be safely elsewhere and that you will have health insurance as well. Let's face it, our shockingly uninformed voters in areas that need protection are still likely in denial and living in blissful ignorance -- that is, until it personally impacts them and then they cry to the US government for aid from our tax revenue.
I assume Pruitt and Trump that your families will be safely elsewhere and that you will have health insurance as well. Let's face it, our shockingly uninformed voters in areas that need protection are still likely in denial and living in blissful ignorance -- that is, until it personally impacts them and then they cry to the US government for aid from our tax revenue.
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If you're a fan of premature death from unregulated environmental poisons, toxins, carcinogens and other stuff that will end your life early, the Trump Administration and its Environmental Pollution Agency are Making 1887 and The Robber Baron Era Great Again.
If you're a fan of human life and planet Earth, then the Trump Administration is a crime against humanity, animals and plants and should be referred to the Hague for prosecution.
If you're a fan of human life and planet Earth, then the Trump Administration is a crime against humanity, animals and plants and should be referred to the Hague for prosecution.
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Obama recommended a slice of toast for breakfast.
Trump issues an order banning toast.
Trump issues an order banning toast.
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The stunning hypocrisy of Republican values:
We value forcing women to give birth against their will because all life is precious.
However, once the baby is born we don't care if she has enough to eat so we cut assistance programs, because if you are a poor and hungry baby it's your own fault.
We don't care if she dies from gun violence because we like campaign donations from the NRA, so we let anyone have any firearm they want with no oversight or controls. Daily mass murder is the price of freedom, you know.
We don't care if the baby is slowly poisoned and suffers from asthma or brain damage because making money pillaging the planet is more important than a healthy environment for human life. So we undo dozens of environmental regulations that keep her air, water, and food safe - and we'll do our best to ensure she has no access to health care to treat those conditions.
If the baby manages to grow up, we don't care if she never sees some animal species we intentionally let go extinct - because God gave us animals to torture, exploit, and shoot from helicopters for fun if we feel like it.
What the heck are you complaining about, baby? Bootstraps! Personal responsibility!
We value forcing women to give birth against their will because all life is precious.
However, once the baby is born we don't care if she has enough to eat so we cut assistance programs, because if you are a poor and hungry baby it's your own fault.
We don't care if she dies from gun violence because we like campaign donations from the NRA, so we let anyone have any firearm they want with no oversight or controls. Daily mass murder is the price of freedom, you know.
We don't care if the baby is slowly poisoned and suffers from asthma or brain damage because making money pillaging the planet is more important than a healthy environment for human life. So we undo dozens of environmental regulations that keep her air, water, and food safe - and we'll do our best to ensure she has no access to health care to treat those conditions.
If the baby manages to grow up, we don't care if she never sees some animal species we intentionally let go extinct - because God gave us animals to torture, exploit, and shoot from helicopters for fun if we feel like it.
What the heck are you complaining about, baby? Bootstraps! Personal responsibility!
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The rest of the world is looking at this country without understanding how the president and his administration can be so incredibly ignorant. What else can we all think of overturning rules that ban the use of pesticides and the contamination of water with toxic waste? This is not a matter of believing or not in "climate change". This is not a matter of opposing Obama's rules either. This is a matter of doing what is right. Would supporters of overturning these rules agree to attend a dinner where the water they drink and food the eat is intentionally supplemented with chlorpyrifos and mercury? Would they allow to intentionally include these molecules in coughing syrup for their children or themselves? Please, think about it, these are not political issues, these are logical problems for which there is much scientific evidence. Ignoring them is only demonstrating ignorance. This is not making "America Great Again", this is showing to the rest of the world a country that is not worth to follow as an example, a country that lost its connection to reality and common
sense......shameful, extremely sad and shameful.
sense......shameful, extremely sad and shameful.
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This is the true American carnage. Not only maiming and killing our people - and our lands, and our waters - but targeting the unborn.
A note to those who will profit from this: In their gated communities, in their lofty towers, your children will curse you.
A note to those who will profit from this: In their gated communities, in their lofty towers, your children will curse you.
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Many of these actions will result in more people suffering and dying in the future because they will make climate change worse.
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Yes, Don and the irony of this is some of those will be his own grandchildren.
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The POTUS appears to lack any original thought for he is defining himself as the anti everything that was set in motion over the past eight years and beyond.
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This moron is has no business being president of the US.
He is an angry , mean, sociopath who is intent on destroying anything that is beautiful, natural and good.
This is truly a fight between "good" and "evil".
Our representatives are bought and paid for by special interest .
This so called" American Democracy" is a joke!
He is an angry , mean, sociopath who is intent on destroying anything that is beautiful, natural and good.
This is truly a fight between "good" and "evil".
Our representatives are bought and paid for by special interest .
This so called" American Democracy" is a joke!
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Donald Trump, a blight upon America, is creating more blight. The United States is surely withering from this man's madness.
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My biggest fear is that the advances that have been made in environmental protection that are being overturned and rolled back my never be reinstated, leaving us and future generations with a toxic mess.
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What part of "Environmental Protection" doesn't the Trump Administration understand? This is felony ignorance and greed of the highest degree.
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Too bad the rules aren't staying and trump should be the one on the way out!!
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Republicans don't care about protecting natural resources for future generations including their children and grandchildren.
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And just think, America! Trump and his Offal Office have only been on the job since January 20th. Just imagine how many more environmental rules and guidelines they can wreck or eliminate before even one year goes by. Ain't we got fun ?
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"Help," cried Mother Earth. "Save me from this madman." But he just wouldn't listen.
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As our planet, and our country gets dirtier and more incompatible for human like, and Republicrooks get richer, tRump crawls his way UP the list of world's worst people. Lucky for him, he will be dead by the time the situation is irreversible, but his children will have so much money that they will be able to find themselves a respite, unavailable to serfs.
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The list of rollbacks in progress is missing at least one: a 2016 rule requiring owners to keep leaks of super-GHG HFCs under 20-30% per year is being undone. And another 2016 rule limiting use of some HFCs if safer chemicals are available was not defended in court by EPA and was overturned. American chemical companies developed the next-gen, safer replacements, so these rules helped American companies too.
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unbearable. By the way, take away birth control as well as health
care, housing and food assistance. The NRA can present every man,
woman and child with a weapon with a silencer. Maybe ammunition
can be taxed for this 'giveaway'.