“Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more...
” — Henry V, Act III As the winds of war on the environment stir ominously on the horizon, we at the San Diego Chapter of Sierra Club stand at the ready to defend our hard-fought gains on behalf of habitat preservation, environmental justice, and climate action as we have before throughout our 76-year history. There is some solace in that there have been significant guardrails erected by the county, many cities, and by the state of California, bolstered by dozens of established environmental activist organizations. But, as one of the nation’s biodiversity hotspots, San Diego County residents and leadership cannot ignore the dark clouds brewing over it .
The intention of the next Trump administration to hollow out or eliminate federal regulatory agencies and legislation that San Diegans have come to rely on to keep our air and water clean, protect our special habitat, confront climate change, and promote environmental justice is clear. This was demonstrated in early agency appointments and policy statements made by Donald Trump’s lieutenants during the presidential campaign. Among those agencies on the endangered list are the U.
S. Fish and Wildlife Service , the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), to name just a few, many ironically created under the Republican administration of Richard Nixon. The Fish and Wildlife Service oversees the management i.
