These actions of Trump's are environmental take aways.
The Environmental Protection Agency:
Lest we forget: “EPA was created to ensure that all Americans can enjoy clean air to breathe, clean water to drink and have their health protected from environmental and climate threats” - Liz Perera, climate policy director for the Sierra Club, quoted in the Seattle Times article referenced below.
Also from the Seattle Times:
Emails sent to EPA staff since President Donald Trump’s inauguration Friday and reviewed by The Associated Press detailed specific prohibitions banning press releases, blog updates or posts to the agency’s social media accounts.
The Trump administration has also ordered what it called a temporary suspension of all new business activities at the department, including issuing task orders or work assignments to EPA contractors. The orders were expected to have a significant and immediate impact on EPA activities nationwide. EPA contracts with outside vendors for a wide array of services, from engineering and research science to janitorial supplies.
Source: http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/nation-politics/trump-admin-orders-epa-contract-freeze-and-media-blackout/
More on Trump’s EPA actions here:
Pushing Keystone XL and DAPL - ignoring treaty rights of the Standing Rock Sioux:
From the Indian Company Media Network:
Pipeline opponents…insist that the environmental damage these projects will wreak far outweighs the few permanent jobs that will ultimately be created with these pipelines. Any construction jobs are temporary, and the promise of energy independence that has been touted is also in question, given that piping the oil to refineries on the Gulf of Mexico coast opens it up more to exportation than domestic use.
Source: https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/news/environment/breaking-trump-pushes-dapl-keystone-xl-forward-executive-order/
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