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"Safeguarding the Environment
Took strong action to protect the environment and ensure clean air and clean water.
- Took action to protect vulnerable Americans from being exposed to lead and copper in drinking water and finalized a rule protecting children from lead-based paint hazards.
- Invested over $38 billion in clean water infrastructure.
- In 2019, America achieved the largest decline in carbon emissions of any country on earth. Since withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, the United States has reduced carbon emissions more than any nation.
- American levels of particulate matter – one of the main measures of air pollution – are approximately five times lower than the global average.
- Between 2017 and 2019, the air became 7 percent cleaner – indicated by a steep drop in the combined emissions of criteria pollutants.
- Led the world in greenhouse gas emissions reductions, having cut energy-related CO2 emissions by 12 percent from 2005 to 2018 while the rest of the world increased emissions by 24 percent.
- (Ye Editor's note: Trump was not president until late January 2017)
- In FY 2019 the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) cleaned up more major pollution sites than any year in nearly two decades.
- The EPA delivered $300 million in Brownfields grants directly to communities most in need including investment in 118 Opportunity Zones.
- Placed a moratorium on offshore drilling off the coasts of Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Florida.
- Restored public access to Federal land at Bears Ears National Monument and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument.
- Recovered more endangered or threatened species than any other administration in its first term.
Secured agreements and signed legislation to protect the environment and preserve our Nation’s abundant national resources.
- The USMCA guarantees the strongest environmental protections of any trade agreement in history.
- Signed the Save Our Seas Act to protect our environment from foreign nations that litter our oceans with debris and developed the first-ever Federal strategic plan to address marine litter.
- Signed the Great American Outdoors Act, securing the single largest investment in America’s National Parks and public lands in history.
- Signed the largest public lands legislation in a decade, designating 1.3 million new acres of wilderness.
- Signed a historic executive order promoting much more active forest management to prevent catastrophic wildfires.
- Opened and expanded access to over 4 million acres of public lands for hunting and fishing.
- Joined the One Trillion Trees Initiative to plant, conserve, and restore trees in America and around the world.
- Delivered infrastructure upgrades and investments for numerous projects, including over half a billion dollars to fix the Herbert Hoover Dike and expanding funding for Everglades restoration by 55 percent."