One of the first executive orders issued by Trump in January was a Whitehouse paper titled "Unleashing American Energy." It promises to restore American prosperity by removing legal barriers, including laws in many states, to the extraction of natural resources. In their Left & the Law segment, Jan Haaken and Mike Snedeker look at how this new wave of far-right assaults on environmental regulation compares to the Trump regime's assaults on immigrants, higher education, government workers, and the role of the judiciary in these various sites of resistance. Mike and Jan also reflect on how organizing for this Earth Day on April 22nd may need to include the resurrection of mass protests.
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