It's no secret that the Trump Administration has cut staff, reversed policy, and gone after a wide range of environmental regulations and agencies. Everything from reversing power plant emissions restrictions to open up parkland or wilderness to drilling to slashing staff at EPA and other agencies that have a role in protecting water, air, pollution and health, have all been done in favor of stimulating economic growth. Harvard's Environmental and Energy Law Program monitors such policy changes and their impacts.
On this episode of Deeper Shade of Green, Senior Attorneys Hannah Perls and Sarah Dewey offer thoughts about what kinds of protections to nature and health might be lost. They also lament the talent, knowledge and research lost in agency cuts, which they say could set back progress in conservation areas for years. Perls and Dewey say there are ways localities and individuals can act, and say that offers some hope to continue progress against issues such as climate change, renewable energy and transportation growth, and health impacts effected by environment.
Research and production help for this episode by Hector Perez. Music from the Syracuse-based Jazz Group E.S.P.
