While President Trump and some of his cabinet nominees have vowed to dismantle some of the environmental policies of former President Barack Obama, environmental groups have been busy building their bank accounts to do battle with the White House.
OK Energy Today has reported on the efforts of the national Sierra Club to raise more funds using Donald Trump’s election as the reason for the call to arms. PBS recently reported that the filing of a federal court brief by five environmental lawyers the night before Trump’s inauguration served as a warning to the new administration and the GOP-controlled Congress. The lawyers’s brief defended the Obama administration’s clean-water rule that President Trump wants to eliminate.
In the few months since Trump’s election, advocacy groups have hired more staff lawyers and are coordinating with private attorneys and firms that have volunteered to help save the Obama environmental policies.
“It’s going to be all-out war,” said Vermont Law School Professor Patrick Parenteau in the PBS report. “If you’re an environmentalist or conservationist, this is indeed a scary time.”