November 7, 2024 – TUCSON, AZ – Following the election of Donald Trump to a second term as president, the Center for 
Biological Diversity on Wednesday vowed an all-out effort to protect the climate, wildlife and wild places from Trump’s destructive environmental policies.
"Trump 2.0 is going to get twice the fight from the protectors of our planet, wildlife and basic human rights," said Kierán Suckling, executive director of the Center for Biological Diversity. "We’ve battled Trump from the border wall to the Arctic Wildlife Refuge, and in many cases we’ve won. This country’s bedrock environmental laws stand strong. We’re more prepared than ever to block the disastrous Trump policies we know are coming."
For example, the Center will resist Trump’s plan to "drill, drill, drill" and his efforts to fulfill promises to the oil industry to reverse dozens of federal measures that protect public lands, imperiled wildlife and human health.
"It’s going to take a few more rounds in the ring, but we’re confident that Trump’s greed, bigotry, misogyny, his anti-democratic zealotry, all will be defeated," said Suckling. "Our fight is about freedom. We won’t rest until people across this country have agency over their own bodies, marginalized communities are free from attack, and every imperiled animal is free to flourish."
With Trump set to take office in a few short months, the Center is calling on the Biden administration to safeguard as many environmental protections as possible in the coming weeks.
As United Nations climate talks get underway in Baku, Azerbaijan, the Center and allies urged President Joe Biden to deliver robust climate targets. The Center also pressed the Biden administration to reject fossil fuel expansion ahead of Trump taking office by halting projects like the behemoth CP2 liquified natural gas export facility.
The Center for Biological Diversity is a national, nonprofit conservation organization with more than 1.7 million members and online activists dedicated to the protection of endangered species and wild places.
Source: Center for Biological Diversity
