Hi all,

 

Please see below social guidance on an article in the Scientific American explaining how environmental reviews are exposing the Trump administration’s efforts to downplay the climate impacts of federal projects.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

 

-Justin

 

 

Facebook:

 

READ: The Trump administration has consistently downplayed the climate impacts of oil and gas projects, but official agency documents tell a different story. #ProtectYourVoice

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/

 

Environmental reviews are one of the most important tools federal decision-makers have to guide emissions reductions and mitigate the impacts of climate change. But the Trump administration is doing everything it can to circumvent this process. #ProtectYourVoice

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/

 

“Agencies under President Trump are cataloging climate impacts in the mandatory environmental reviews that precede major federal actions. They describe worsening damage to virtually every ecosystem, from entire forests down to the ocean’s smallest life forms.” (via @sciam) #ProtectYourVoice

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/

 

 

Twitter:

 

READ: The Trump administration has consistently downplayed the climate impacts of oil and gas projects, but official agency documents tell a different story. #ProtectYourVoice

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/

 

President Trump calls the climate crisis a hoax. The administration’s own environmental reviews paint a different picture – rising temperatures, rising tides, and mass extinctions of Arctic birds. #ProtectYourVoice

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/

 

An environmental review in 2018 showed that many of Hawaii’s historic building and cultural sites are under threat from sea level rise. The Trump administration’s response? Nothing. #ProtectYourVoice

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/

 

Environmental reviews are one of the most important tools federal decision-makers have to guide emissions reductions and mitigate the impacts of climate change. But the Trump administration is doing everything it can to circumvent this process. #ProtectYourVoice

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/

 

“Agencies under President Trump are cataloging climate impacts in the mandatory environmental reviews that precede major federal actions. They describe worsening damage to virtually every ecosystem, from entire forests down to the ocean’s smallest life forms.” (via @sciam) #ProtectYourVoice

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/as-trump-administration-downplays-warming-agencies-chronicle-climate-impacts/

 

 

 

Justin McCarthy

Communications Director, NEPA Campaign

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