Hi all,
Please find below message & social guidance regarding Mandy Gunasekara’s selection for EPA Chief of Staff. As always, feel free to adjust this guidance to best fit the voice and tone of your organization. Thank you!
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Message Guidance
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With Mandy Gunasekara set to return to the EPA as Chief of Staff, the Trump administration’s revolving door of industry swamp creatures continues. Just like her soon-to-be boss - former coal lobbyist and current EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler - Gunasekara
is hellbent on putting the interests of her corporate polluter buddies ahead of the health and well-being of the American people.
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Gunasekara has been a driving force behind the Trump administration’s toxic agenda to roll back critical environmental and public health safeguards, including Trump’s reckless decision to withdraw the U.S. from its global commitments to reduce carbon pollution
under the Paris Agreement.
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During her tenure overseeing the EPA’s Office of Air and Radiation, Gunasekara helped craft the Trump administration’s so-called Affordable Clean Energy rule, a dirty power scam that does nothing to address the carbon pollution from power plants that is driving
our climate crisis. She also worked for notorious climate denier Senator Jim Inhofe and handed him the infamous snowball he threw on the Senate floor to mock the very real climate emergency that is threatening communities around the country and world.
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What’s more, Gunasekara’s return to EPA comes just as Trump proposed a 26% cut to the agency’s budget, which would hamstring the agency across the board - from scientific research to enforcement of Gunasekara’s corporate polluter buddies.
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The American people want their leaders to have a plan to act on climate. A growing number of Americans describe climate change as a crisis and two-thirds believe the Trump administration is not doing enough to tackle climate change. Even a majority of younger
Republicans are worried about their party’s stance on climate change.
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The reality remains that Trump has been the worst president in history on the environment and public health, and Americans aren’t buying Mandy Gunasekara’s attempts to greenwash this administration’s record. The EPA needs a Chief of Staff who is committed to
the agency’s mission of protecting our health and the environment, and that includes confronting the growing climate crisis that is threatening our health and economy.
Social Guidance
TWITTER
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The former @EPA top air policy advisor, @MississippiMG, is set to return to the @EPA as the new Chief of Staff. After advising @realDonaldTrump to leave the #ParisAgreement, one thing is clear- she has failed to #ActOnClimate.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/14/she-pushed-trump-exit-paris-climate-agreement-rollback-environmental-rules-shes-returning-epa-chief-staff/
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We need an @EPA Chief of Staff who is fighting to #ActOnClimate, not former @EPA air policy advisor @MississippiMG who advised @realDonaldTrump to pull out of the #ParisAgreement.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2020/02/14/she-pushed-trump-exit-paris-climate-agreement-rollback-environmental-rules-shes-returning-epa-chief-staff/
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