By Pepper Trail

This first conservation column (in The Chat) of the Trump Administration is all bad news—and I’m sorry to say that we’re going to have to get used to that. With anti-environmental forces in full control of Congress and the Presidency, it is going to be a very long four years of playing defense. But poll after poll shows that a majority of Americans are in favor of environmental protection and are concerned about climate change. So, we have to mobilize our fellow citizens and hold our elected officials ac-countable—and work to replace them when necessary.

Read more in the 2017 March Chat.