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Ryan Schleeter, Senior Communications Specialist, Greenpeace USA: +1 (415) 342-2386, ryan.schleeter@greenpeace.org

Trump's Proposed NEPA Rollbacks Are Environmental Racism in Action

Today, the Department of the Interior will hold the second of two public hearings on Donald Trump's proposed rollbacks to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). If implemented, these sweeping changes would mean federal agencies don't have to consider the climate impacts of new infrastructure projects and would severely restrict input from fenceline communities.

Greenpeace USA Senior Climate Campaigner John Noel said:

WASHINGTON

Today, the Department of the Interior will hold the second of two public hearings on Donald Trump's proposed rollbacks to the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). If implemented, these sweeping changes would mean federal agencies don't have to consider the climate impacts of new infrastructure projects and would severely restrict input from fenceline communities.

Greenpeace USA Senior Climate Campaigner John Noel said:

"Fossil fuel infrastructure projects are overwhelmingly located in underrepresented, working class communities. No oil company wants to put an oil well on top of a Trump golf course, or a fracked gas compressor station next to Mar a Lago -- they're building pipelines through Indigenous territory and refineries next to Black and Brown neighborhoods. Based on its attempts to roll back NEPA, it's clear the Trump administration views these communities as sacrifice zones.

"Gutting NEPA is an attempt to silence the communities on the frontlines of fossil fuel industry pollution. If Trump truly cared about clean air and water for anyone other than his billionaire buddies, he'd strengthen laws like NEPA. Instead, he's handing out favors to oil and gas executives like candy."

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