PROTECT OUR LAND & OUR PEOPLE
Resume considering the economic impacts of public health in rule-making – something the Trump/Vance administration decided wasn’t important.
Denounce the Trump/Vance administration’s “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate” report, which was put together by marginalized researchers who relied on outdated studies and/or debunked arguments. This study is filled with errors and misrepresentations.
If the Trump/Vance administration is successful in repealing the “endangerment finding” for greenhouse gases under the federal Clean Air Act, reverse the decision.
Reassess the Corporate Average Fuel Economy rules, or CAFÉ, and adjust accordingly.
Protect states’ rights under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act.
Restore all protections for U.S. wetlands that the Trump/Vance administration rolled back.
Restore the National Weather Service back to its former glory and fully support the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA).
Restore the National Center for Atmospheric Research (NCAR) and fully support the National Science Foundation.
Reinstate the National Climate Assessment and fully support the Global Change Research Program.
Protect and fully support the Mauna Loa Observatory.
Reinstate the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board.
Restore protections for the nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System that the Trump/Vance administration rolled back.
To any extent possible, stop all construction through the Izembek National Wildlife Refuge in southwestern Alaska.
Protect the Berryessa Snow Mountain, Avi Kwa Ame, and Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.
Rebuild the staff of the National Park Service, including those responsible for cleaning up abandoned oil and gas wells at national parks across the country.
Rebuild the staff of the Forest Service, including trail and recreation staff.
Restore all protections under the Endangered Species Act that the Trump/Vance administration rolled back.
Cut the menhaden – “the most important fish in the sea” – harvest in half. Ban industrial reduction fishing in Virginia’s nearshore and other nursery areas such as the Chesapeake Bay. Treat menhaden as a public trust, not a commodity.
Protect the ban on barbaric hunting techniques in Alaska. Restore bans on the killing of bear cubs and mothers in their dens; killing wolf and coyote pups in their dens; using artificial light at den sites; shooting swimming caribou from motorboats; and using dogs to hunt black bears. (it’s very hard to believe we actually have to say this)
Revoke all tolerances for chlorpyrifos, except for the eleven food and feed crops proposed by the EPA (alfalfa, apple, asparagus, cherry (tart), citrus, cotton, peach, soybean, strawberry, sugar beets, and wheat (spring and winter).
Continue to phase down hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs).