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Trump actually just said it better than anyone could: "We're going back to 1952." No thanks. #ProtectYourVoice #ProtectNEPA https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2020/trump-administration-guts-national-environmental-policy-act

Trump Administration Guts National Environmental Policy Act

Today, the Trump administration finalized its proposal to gut more than 40 years of settled environmental law. The White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) released the final text of a...

https://earthjustice.org/news/press/2020/trump-administration-guts-national-environmental-policy-act

I just googled "water pollution in the 1950s" and this was the second result

And here is "air pollution in the 1950s" https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/25/u-s-once-had-air-pollution-to-match-chinas-today/

U.S. once had air pollution to match China’s today

One of the worst U.S. air pollution episodes was the choking, deadly smog that covered Donora, Pa., in October 1948, killing 20 people and leaving roughly 7,000 ill in hospitals or at home.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2013/10/25/u-s-once-had-air-pollution-to-match-chinas-today/

Here's a fun one - "ocean dumping in the 1950s" https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/04/world/the-us-too-has-dumped-waste-at-sea.html#:~:text=Some%20radioactive%20waste%20containers%20were,Farallon%20Islands%20off%20San%20Francisco.&text=The%20Soviet%20Union%2C%20which%20signed,dump%20radioactive%20waste%20at%20sea.

The U.S., Too, Has Dumped Waste at Sea

https://www.nytimes.com/1992/05/04/world/the-us-too-has-dumped-waste-at-sea.html#:~:text=Some%20radioactive%20waste%20containers%20were,Farallon%20Islands%20off%20San%20Francisco.&text=The%20Soviet%20Union%2C%20which%20signed,dump%20radioactive%20waste%20at%20sea

Then of course you've got the highways built in the 1950s by bulldozing communities, including many Black neighborhoods (pre-NEPA so they had no public voice in this) https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/

The Role of Highways in American Poverty

They seemed like such a good idea in the 1950s.

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2016/03/role-of-highways-in-american-poverty/474282/

And let's not forget the ozone hole, which was born in the 1950s. https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/2019-ozone-hole-is-the-smallest-on-record-since-its-discovery

2019 Ozone Hole is the Smallest on Record Since Its Discovery

Abnormal weather patterns in the upper atmosphere over Antarctica dramatically limited ozone depletion in September and October, resulting in the smallest ozone hole observed since 1982, NASA and...

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/2019/2019-ozone-hole-is-the-smallest-on-record-since-its-discovery

You know what really got great around the 1950s? Extinction rates.

So yeah, "We're going back to 1952" will not make environmental protections great. Let's not. #ProtectYourVoice #ProtectNEPA (photo suggested by @mhayden57)

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