Trump’s bill guts environmental justice efforts, but Ruth Ann Norton of GHHI says communities must stay focused: “We can’t lose our focus.”
Among the many, many provisions in the One Big Beautiful Bill Act that was signed into law on the Fourth of July are a host of environmental measures that continue the Trump Administration’s work to undo any and all progress on climate change. “It is not an overstatement to say this is the most anti-environment bill in history,” Patrick Drupp, director of climate policy for the Sierra Club, said in a statement.
And as the Biden Administration was very focused on environmental and climate justice in particular, the new bill targets many of those programs, too, and rescinds the Environmental Protection Agency’s Environmental and Climate Justice Program entirely.
Environmental activist Mustafa Ali put it plainly: “The bill greenlights pollution — literally. It weakens the Clean Air Act, disables the EPA’s ability to regulate toxic emissions, and rolls back protections for drinking water. It tells corporations they can dump, poison, and profit without consequence. And who suffers? The same people who always suffer.” Black, Brown, Indigenous, and low-income Americans.
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