Environmentalists are planning to protest President Trump’s latest executive order to roll back former President Barack Obama’s climate regulations.
“The best way to fight against these executive orders is to take to the streets,” said May Boeve, executive director of 350.org, a leading group opposing fossil fuel development in support of renewable energy.
Boeve’s group is using Trump’s executive action on Tuesday to announce a protest on April 29 in Washington, called the People’s Climate March.
“Even as Trump dismantles environmental protections to shore up the fossil fuel industry, support for action to stop global warming is at an all-time high,” Boeve said Tuesday before Trump signed the Energy Independence order.
The order would begin the process of rolling back the centerpiece of Obama’s climate change agenda, the Clean Power Plan, while dismantling other environmental directives and rules aimed at the coal, oil and natural gas industries.
More than 100,000 people are planning to descend on the nation’s capital for the April march, which is expected to join climate activists with labor, social justice, faith and other organizations to “offer up resistance to Trump’s new executive orders and put forward the vision of a clean energy economy that works for all,” the group said.
The climate march will coordinate with other protests in other cities, with the goal of taking the protest nationwide. Protesters also plan to use the upcoming congressional recess to challenge lawmakers on climate change in their home districts.
“From the upcoming congressional recess through the People’s Climate March and beyond, we’ll be putting pressure on lawmakers to defend the climate and building power to stop the fossil fuel industry for good,” Boeve said.
