Americans Want More Opportunity and Safer, Healthier Communities. The Trump Administration Has Only Delivered Less.

“The Trump administration took office 100 days ago promising American families that life would change for the better. The administration said it would strengthen the economy, supercharge domestic manufacturing and energy production, and supply new jobs.

“They promised more but delivered less. They’ve taken actions that have made life more expensive, more dangerous, less prosperous, and less secure.

“What they’ve been doing over the first 100 days directly undermines what they promised they’d deliver. Trying to obstruct development of the cheapest, fastest-growing sources of energy like solar, wind, and battery storage is not going to keep anyone’s lights on. Attacking laws that have created 195,000 jobs and encouraged $200 billion to be invested in domestic manufacturing facilities for new vehicles isn’t going to put more food on anyone’s table or give consumers more choices. Inviting more life-altering pollution and weakening dozens of environmental protections isn’t going to lower anyone’s health care costs. Eliminating the government’s ability to face climate change won’t make housing more affordable. It’ll only uproot families, drive insurance rates higher until they’re out of reach, and burden communities everywhere with more damages, more economic losses, more death.

“But Americans couldn’t be clearer. They don’t want to make do with less. It’s time to deliver much more.”

             - Amanda Leland, Executive Director, Environmental Defense Fund