A Betrayal of the Public Interest
In the wake of the troubling actions taken by President Trump yesterday that threaten our nation’s bedrock laws and environmental protections, attempt to force through the Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, and undermine our government’s work, NRDC President Rhea Suh posted this blog, “A Betrayal of the Public Interest.”
Here is an excerpt:
“President Trump fired a broadside at the nation’s environment and health on Tuesday, striking out, in the process, at the public’s right to know what our government is doing. Please join me in telling him that this all-out assault on our common values and basic rights will not stand.
“In a presidential memorandum, Trump revived long-dormant Republican efforts to force the Keystone XL dirty tar sands pipeline down our throats. He invited the Canadian oil giant TransCanada to reapply for permission to build the pipeline and gave the U.S. State Department 60 days to determine whether the project is in our national interest.
“We’ve already spent years, as a nation, looking at this. We determined it’s not in our national interest to send some of the dirtiest oil on the planet across more than 1,000 American waterways, thousands of acres of wetlands, and more than 2,500 wells that our ranchers, farmers, and communities depend on for clean irrigation and drinking water—all so that most of the fuel can be shipped overseas. It’s not in our national interest to expose the breadbasket of America to the risk of pipeline blowouts, explosions, and leaks. And it’s not in our interest to enable the production of dirty tar sands crude oil that, from wellhead to tailpipe, is 17 percent worse for our environment than traditional forms of crude oil.”
Read more here: https://www.nrdc.org/experts/rhea-suh/betrayal-public-interest
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