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Since 1970, the
National Environmental Protection Act (NEPA) has protected
people and the planet by making sure construction companies
can't just willy-nilly build factories, pipeliness, major
roadways, or drilling sites near where people live. Naturally,
that infuriated Donald Trump. So he took a massive wrecking
ball to the law. Under his new, stripped-down version,
corporations will no longer need to consider a
project's contribution to climate change. And people who live near proposed sites will
have virtually zero chance for input.
This is an egregious
attempt to take away the rights of the people and expand the
already massive power and wealth of the fossil fuel and
construction industries, and at a particularly
horrible time. Climate change is already a global emergency,
with scientists agreeing that if we have not taken enough
steps by 2030 to curb the climb of the world's temperatures,
we will be past the point of no return. NEPA was already
insufficient for the task at hand, and now we don't even have
its meager protections. Sign the petition and demand that the Trump
Administration restore NEPA to the way it was meant to be,
before it's too late for the planet and our
people!
Thank you for all that you do,
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Miranda
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The Care2 Petitions Team |
P.S. One local
conservationist called Trump's plan "a massive project that
threatens wildlife, exacerbates climate change and impacts
indigenous culture and food security." Sign today to help stop this dangerous change
now! |
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