Saving the National Environmental Protection Act

For you petition-signers, here’s a good one that just received my John Hancock. I took the text below from an email that I can no longer find, and thus can’t cite.

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!