Lauren Lantry, lauren.lantry@sierraclub.org
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Today, in Orlando, Florida, Donald Trump will officially announce his candidacy for President of the United States for the 2020 election cycle. This week, Trump will finalize his rollback of the Clean Power Plan, life-saving climate action that constituted the first-ever safeguard from carbon pollution for existing power plants, and replaced it with the Dirty Power Plan, a polluter giveaway that will lead to the deaths of 1,400 Americans every year by the Trump EPA’s own admission. So far during his presidency Trump has rolled back protections from coal ash, the clean car standards, the Clean Power Plan, protections from methane pollution, and withdrew the US from the Paris Climate Agreement -- and that’s just a sample of his anti-public health, anti-climate, and anti-environment agenda.
In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:
“Donald Trump is the worst President for our climate, our environment, and our health in history. The only thing Trump has made greater is the strength and severity of the climate crisis. With every Trump rollback of climate safeguards, every failed response to climate-fueled extreme weather, and every payout for big polluters, more Americans grow more committed to defeat Trump and the climate crisis.”
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