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Gound-Level Environmentalism: Trumpism's Unexpected Outcome Part One

America’s current environmental protection enterprise – the complex but effective blend of institutions, laws, and personnel at every governmental level – will not survive the Trump presidency unscathed. Trumpism’s Project 2025 pledged to favor profits over protection.  Part One of this article anticipates how its implementation will remodel agencies, rewrite laws, and exile federal experts.

KC Star Guest Commentary: Federal Remote Work Works for America

Karl Brooks is Professor of the Practice at the University of Kansas' School of Public Affairs and Administration and was EPA Regional Administrator in the Heartland from 2010 to 2015, then EPA national operations manager from 2015 to 2016.
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Gound-Level Environmentalism: Trumpism's Unexpected Outcome Part Two

Part Two foresees that Americans’ shared commitment to environmental health, beauty, and conservation will incite a response unseen in most of our lifetimes: localized, ground-level, grassroots citizen mobilizations.  Similar upwellings of emotion, activism, and politicking founded, over a half-century ago, our system of using law and science to safeguard our natural environment.
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