greenghost
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Hold on to your fishing fedoras and snap shut your fly boxes, the man who believes global warming is a Chinese scam is coming to office. Trump is about to makes things tough for those who want to protect the environment. His policy is slash and burn. Damned the land as long as jobs and wealth are created.
He has pledged to do away with much of the positive environmental protection strides previous administrations have made. Goodbye clean power. If he is successful in bringing back the coal industry it will be through a withdrawal or lessening of clean air restrictions… be prepared for a return of acid rain. Hopefully, the current power generating industry geared toward natural gas will make it too difficult. But he also pledges fracking in parks and previously protected lands. A concern for the future of our waters.
I’ve been around for awhile. I remember the AMD, acid rain and point pollution before the Water Protection policies took affect. And I have seen the great strides made in so many waters, especially in SWPA. It would break my heart to see a reversal because of a short-sighted man and his administration.
So here’s my point. I think as a sporting group we need to become more diligent and work harder than ever before in protecting our waters. It has to be local and statewide from a grassroots efforts to working with state to implement more effective DEP laws… all the while knowing the Feds will not be backing our efforts. And will in fact, be opposing them.
He has pledged to do away with much of the positive environmental protection strides previous administrations have made. Goodbye clean power. If he is successful in bringing back the coal industry it will be through a withdrawal or lessening of clean air restrictions… be prepared for a return of acid rain. Hopefully, the current power generating industry geared toward natural gas will make it too difficult. But he also pledges fracking in parks and previously protected lands. A concern for the future of our waters.
I’ve been around for awhile. I remember the AMD, acid rain and point pollution before the Water Protection policies took affect. And I have seen the great strides made in so many waters, especially in SWPA. It would break my heart to see a reversal because of a short-sighted man and his administration.
So here’s my point. I think as a sporting group we need to become more diligent and work harder than ever before in protecting our waters. It has to be local and statewide from a grassroots efforts to working with state to implement more effective DEP laws… all the while knowing the Feds will not be backing our efforts. And will in fact, be opposing them.