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NOW THAT TRUMP’S ASSAULT ON THE ENVIRONMENT IS OVER, CAN WE GET BACK TO WORK!
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Trump would cement “as many environmental attacks as possible to make it harder for the next president and other lawmakers to undo the damage.”
To exacerbate the matter, the Trump administration also undertook a series of anticonservation attacks that left profound damage on environmental conservation efforts started by the former administration. The most notable changes took place during the last days of Trump in office, where experts argued that
True to that, Trump did as predicted earlier. First, the Trump administration shook down and sold off the Arctic refuge to pave way for oil and gas drilling less than two weeks before the November 2020 election. Moreover, the Trump administration finalized changes that were meant to weaken the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), which would make it easier to keep the public in the dark about government projects and create more loopholes for certain activities to escape environmental review.
ith the Trump administration’s fouryear environmental protection and conservation assault vanished along with his presidency, the restoration process must now kick off. The world watched with dismay as laws, policies, science and the conservation of waters, air, wildlife, and public lands were systematically pulled down.
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