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Excerpts from NRDC;
Let’s fight united for our environment, for our climate, and for our shared clean energy future — harder than we ever have fought before.
“Shock and disappointment. Like you, that’s how all of us here at NRDC are feeling after witnessing last night’s election results.
Hillary Clinton, a climate champion, lost. Donald Trump, who embraces fossil fuels, has vowed to roll back the Paris accord and calls climate change a hoax, has won. Feeling shell-shocked is an appropriate response.
Whatever Americans voted for, it was not to turn back the clock on the environmental progress we’ve achieved over the last eight years under President Barack Obama.
It was not to continue allowing big polluters and their climate-denying allies in Congress to pillage our natural heritage and our planet for profit. It was not to walk away from the Paris climate agreement, the promise of clean energy and desperately needed progress on fighting climate change here at home. And it certainly was not to deny our fellow Americans their basic right to safe drinking water, clean air and healthy communities simply because of their income or skin color.
So it’s time for every American — Republican, Democrat and Independent alike — to stand and defend our environment and health…” -NRDC
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Learn More: Despite Trump Win, Americans Will Defend Our Environment and Health ; NRDC (11-08-2016)
Energy world rocked by Trump win; E & E (11-09-2016)
Donald Trump’s election is sending shock waves through the energy and environmental world.
If Trump does the things he said he would do on the campaign trail, “it would make his administration the dirtiest one since the first Earth Day in 1970,” Weiss said. He predicted that Trump “would sign just about any anti-environmental legislation that the House has put through in recent years that have never made it through the Senate.”
Trump’s Election Could Threaten Global Climate Agreement; Scientific American (11-09-2016)
Environmentalists reacted with disbelief to the upset victory of a candidate who rejects the scientific foundation for man-made climate change. His official position is that humans don’t affect the climate…
Trump election shock threatens US science; Physics World (11-09-2016)
