WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, the Trump administration signed a tentative deal with Mexico and Canada to make revisions to Trump’s NAFTA 2.0. While details of the deal are still pending, a factsheet from the House Ways and Means Committee indicates that the deal’s core environmental failures have not been resolved.
See here for a detailed analysis of the deal’s apparent environmental failures, based on the Ways and Means summary.
The Sierra Club, League of Conservation Voters, and Natural Resources Defense Council sent a letter to Congress Monday vowing to oppose any deal that does not make the specific, minimum changes that environmental groups have consistently called for. Unless those changes are made, the deal would encourage further outsourcing of pollution and jobs, offer handouts to notorious corporate polluters, undermine the Paris Climate Agreement, and cement Trump’s polluting legacy.
