Numerous environmental groups including Greenpeace and Food and Water Watch, criticized the deal, with Erich Pica, president of Friends of the Earth, calling it "a frontal assault on environmental and climate safeguards".
The TPP as a whole is a frontal assault on environmental and climate safeguards.
Imagine you're a woman seeking an abortion, or someone wanting climate safeguards or gun control.
In that position, Palich praised President Trump for honoring his pledge to stand up to "radical environmentalists" by targeting clean air and climate safeguards. .
It sets us back further, empowering fossil fuel corporations to challenge our public health and climate safeguards in unaccountable trade tribunals while increasing dirty fossil fuel exports and fracking.
As Oklahoma's attorney general between 2011 and 2016, Pruitt dismantled his office's Environmental Protection Unit, halted efforts to reduce poultry manure in Oklahoma waterways, and sued the EPA 14 times to block stronger air, water and climate safeguards, including standards that would reduce regional smog and airborne mercury pollution.
Priorities for immediate action are meeting the global needs for food, water and energy, while at the same time avoiding dangerous climate change, safeguarding biodiversity and managing the oceans sustainably.
This includes votes against disaster relief for Hurricane Sandy, military investments in biofuels, clean water protections, climate change safeguards, toxic air pollution from power plants--even the confirmation Gina McCarthy as Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency.
Protesters held 'speech bubbles' parodying the Bank's message to developing country governments: that human rights and labor standards don't matter, indigenous rights can be 'opted out' of, and climate change safeguards disregarded.
At stake are nothing less than the clean air, clean water, and climate action safeguards that we have fought for decades to secure, as well as policies that protect the rights of American workers to organize, the rights of American women to choose, and the right of people of all races, religions, national origins, and orientations to equal protection under the law.
