Enviro Groups Pledge United Opposition If Trump’s NAFTA Deal Protects Polluters

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Today, the nation’s top environmental organizations released a joint statement pledging opposition to Donald Trump’s NAFTA deal if it prioritizes the interests of polluters over the needs of communities across borders.

To date, the NAFTA talks have ignored most of the environmental concerns that the groups delineated before talks began. The demands include stopping the offshoring of pollution and jobs, supporting a clean energy economy, and shielding environmental policies from industry interference. Unless talks dramatically change course, the resulting deal is likely to further exacerbate pollution, job loss, and the climate crisis.

Sierra Club Responsible Trade Program Director Ben Beachy released the following statement: "The environmental movement is united in our demands to replace NAFTA with a deal that protects workers and the planet, not corporate polluters. NAFTA has helped corporations offshore jobs and pollution, devastating communities across borders. Trump could make matters worse with a climate-denying NAFTA 2.0 that locks in decades of pollution and caters to corporate polluters. But our groups have pledged to rise up together to oppose any deal that prolongs Trump's polluting legacy."

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Read the full statement here.

 

Groups that have signed on to the statement:

350.org

Center for Biological Diversity

Center for International Environmental Law

Defenders of Wildlife

Earthjustice

Food and Water Watch

Friends of the Earth

Green For All

GreenLatinos

Greenpeace USA

League of Conservation Voters

Natural Resources Defense Council

Oil Change International

People’s Action

Power Shift Network

Sierra Club

Sunrise Movement

About the Sierra Club

The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3 million members and supporters. In addition to helping people from all backgrounds explore nature and our outdoor heritage, the Sierra Club works to promote clean energy, safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and legal action. For more information, visit www.sierraclub.org.