There's a very good article in the PD today that addresses the environmental threats posed by Trump administration and how that might effect us locally. Sometime I feel that all the just concerns about Trump's civil rights chamber of horrors overshadows his danger to the environment. I'm still pissed that the environment and climate change was barely mentioned during the campaign.
Anyhow. here's a good survey of the challenges on the environment front, including locally, that are coming up.
California environmental leaders, lawmakers gird for fight against President Trump
GUY KOVNER - THE PRESS DEMOCRAT | November 19, 2016
Restoring salmon in the Russian River and protecting the North Coast from oil rigs — two long-standing campaigns with broad public support — are among the goals likely to be challenged if not stifled by the sharp right turn of Donald Trump’s administration, environmental advocates and Democratic lawmakers said.
More broadly, the environmental camp fears that landmark legislation, including laws that protect endangered species, clean air and water, are imperiled by Republican control of the House and Senate with an avid deregulation partner in the White House.
The harbingers, they say, include Trump’s trail of tweets and speeches asserting that climate change is a hoax and his post-election appointments of a California water district lobbyist and a prominent climate change denier to head his transition teams at the Environmental Protection Agency and the Interior Department, respectively.
Even if Republicans and their allies can’t roll back environmental laws they have long targeted — asserting they harm economic development — the GOP will have nearly unlimited control of national policy and can weaken environmental programs by turning off the cash spigot.
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