August 15, 2017
Washington, D.C.
Contact: Jason Schwartz, [email protected], 347.452.3752
In response to Trump’s Executive Order curtailing environmental review, including the rescinding of safeguards against spending Federal dollars on infrastructure in the path of floods, Greenpeace USA Senior Climate Campaigner Diana Best said:
“Racing to build major infrastructure where flooding is sure to happen is fiscally irresponsible and willfully ignorant. This order is about fast-tracking the placement of taxpayer dollars into the pockets of developers and the oil and gas industry, not lasting infrastructure. While Trump complains about essential environmental review, the rest of us are dealing with the rising waters of climate change, which are already upon us. No amount of wishful thinking by executive order or retreats from global agreements will alter the reality of climate change and its threats to infrastructure.”
