In response to Trump’s executive order, which a draft White House plan reveals he will sign next week, instructing the EPA and Army Corps of Engineers to roll back the Waters of the United States rule, Greenpeace USA Climate Liability Campaigner Naomi Ages said:
“Trump’s campaign claim that “clean water, crystal clean water is vitally important” was, like nearly everything else out of his mouth, fake news. 117 million Americans, one in three people in the United States, depend on the drinking water that lacked protection before the waters of the US Rule. Now, thanks to Trump, their water will be in danger again.
“Trump will never know what it feels like to worry about the water his family is drinking, to wonder if his house will survive the next superstorm, or if his child will face illegal deportation. He is clearly and directly endangering the health and safety of millions of people in order to line the pockets of corporate executives. It is up to each one of us to protect each other, to fight for each other, and to resist the ways in which Donald Trump threatens America’s health and safety.”
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