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MSM talks about Porter while the infrastructure bill
has all kinds of dastardly crap in it, according to the email I received today:
The Trump administration just released its infrastructure plan. The plan is nothing more than a scam to open up even more of our public lands to Big Oil. It could even allow pipelines to cross our National Parks.
Trump isn’t trying to improve our infrastructure. He’s just trying to let his corporate cronies sidestep environmental protections, public health, and worker safety. Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industry could reap huge benefits.
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Trump wants to give Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke unilateral authority to allow pipelines to cross our parks. That’s the same Ryan Zinke who gutted Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. He’s all too eager to hand over our wild places to his buddies in the fossil fuel industry.
At the same time, Trump’s plan would allow many infrastructure projects to sidestep key analyses of their adverse health and environmental impacts. It would allow his administration to sell off public lands to oil and coal interests. And it would eliminate requirements that projects comply with the Clean Air Act.
Trump isn’t trying to improve our infrastructure. He’s just trying to let his corporate cronies sidestep environmental protections, public health, and worker safety. Meanwhile, the fossil fuel industry could reap huge benefits.
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Trump wants to give Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke unilateral authority to allow pipelines to cross our parks. That’s the same Ryan Zinke who gutted Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments. He’s all too eager to hand over our wild places to his buddies in the fossil fuel industry.
At the same time, Trump’s plan would allow many infrastructure projects to sidestep key analyses of their adverse health and environmental impacts. It would allow his administration to sell off public lands to oil and coal interests. And it would eliminate requirements that projects comply with the Clean Air Act.
