Mary Trump - Poisoning America

In the past sixteen months, the Trump regime has moved to dismantle environmental and public health protections at a scale never before seen in modern American history. Federal protections covering public lands, air pollution, climate oversight, disaster preparedness, and environmental monitoring have been weakened, delayed, or eliminated. The administration describes this effort as deregulation and energy expansion. Critics argue that the long-term costs are simply being shifted from industries onto the public, which is to say, onto us.

On May 13, Representative Jared Huffman accused the Trump regime of treating public lands and natural resources as assets for private industry and political allies.

Huffman: President Trump is gutting funding and personnel in the agencies that manage our public lands, ordering what’s left of the beleaguered National Park Service staff to whitewash history, shutting down projects that are ready to bring cheap, reliable, clean energy to millions of families who are struggling with skyrocketing utility bills and bullying the offshore wind industry into abandoning billions in investments that would bring even more affordable energy online. Oil and gas prices are soaring. As America pulled back from global leadership on clean energy technology, China stepped right in to fill the void. Trump’s policies have been terrible for our competition with China, terrible for workers and families trying to pay their bills. There is only one group that benefits from these policies and that is the oil and gas oligarchs who funded Trump’s campaign.

The reason for this is very simple. Donald is pro-oligarch. He aspires to be one himself. If protecting the interests of oligarchs comes at the expense of our environment, our natural resources, and the health of future generations, so be it. Donald and the people around him do not value those things.

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