--- title: The Trump Administration's Environmental Accomplishments (overview page) url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/trump-environmental-accomplishments-overview-2021/ description: The overview page of a 15-page White House record titled 'The Trump Administration's Environmental Accomplishments', dated January 2021. section: Collection --- [Collection](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/) [![The Trump Administration's Environmental Accomplishments (overview page)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/trump-environmental-accomplishments-overview-2021.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/trump-environmental-accomplishments-overview-2021.jpg) # The Trump Administration's Environmental Accomplishments (overview page) The overview page of a 15-page White House record titled 'The Trump Administration's Environmental Accomplishments', dated January 2021. It lists enacted laws, orders and acreage and emissions figures under the heading 'accomplishments' and contains no actions or measures counted against that record; superlatives such as 'No President has advocated more strongly' and 'the largest public lands investment in history' stand without a comparison base on the page. ## Text on the object Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked ``` OVERVIEW Over the past four years, the Trump Administration has taken a practical, balanced approach to improving our environment while also promoting economic and job growth. Under President Trump’s leadership, Federal agencies have focused on achieving real results that improve the lives of Americans in every community. This Administration has taken a broad range of actions to support a cleaner environment, advance conservation and environmental stewardship, improve air and water quality, and strengthen our Nation’s infrastructure, while lifting up working families and supporting American prosperity. This record of accomplishments is summarized below, followed by a compilation of environment-related legislation, executive orders, presidential memoranda, proclamations, and messages. CONSERVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP Championing Conservation: During his Administration, President Trump has championed and signed historic conservation legislation. On August 4, 2020, he signed H.R. 1957, the “Great American Outdoors Act,” into law, the largest public lands investment in history. This legislation, advocated for by the President, included $9.5 billion in new funding to maintain our national parks, forests, and associated lands and provides for permanent funding for the Land and Water Conservation Fund. On March 12, 2019, President Trump also signed S. 47, the “John D. Dingell, Jr. Conservation, Management, and Recreation Act,” (“Dingell Act”) into law, which was the largest public lands legislation in nearly a decade, designating 1.3 million new acres of wilderness; supporting land and water conservation; establishing a research, development, and testing program to better monitor and respond to wildfires; and expanding access for recreational hunting and fishing on Federal lands. During the Trump Administration, the Department of the Interior has prioritized increasing recreational opportunities, and 49 trails have been added to the National Recreational Trails System, spanning 1,645 miles, and hunting and fishing opportunities have been expanded across more than 2.3 million acres at 138 national wildlife refuges and nine national fish hatcheries. Improving Forest Management to Reduce Wildfire Risks: No President has advocated more strongly for improving forest management to reduce wildfire risk. On November 20, 2018, President Trump urged Congressional action to improve forest management and help prevent wildfires, and on December 20, 2018, he signed H.R. 2, the “Agriculture Improvement Act,” into law, which includes provisions to expedite forest management, including providing for the U.S. Forest Service to develop categorical exclusions to reduce the threat of catastrophic wildfires. On December 21, 2018, President Trump also issued Executive Order (E.O.) 13855, “Promoting Active Management of America’s Forests, Rangelands, and Other Federal Lands to Improve Conditions and Reduce Wildfire Risk,” to improve wildland fire management, protect habitats and communities, reduce physical infrastructure risk, and promote effective decision making. Since 2017, the Department of the Interior has reduced wildfire risk across 5.4 million acres of Interior-managed land, an increase of 49 percent over the previous administration, while the U.S. Department of Agriculture has improved forest conditions and reduced wildfire risk on over 2.65 million acres in 2020 alone, removing hazardous fuels like dead and downed trees, and combating disease and insect, and invasive species infestations. [Page continues with the paragraph "Protecting Endangered and Threatened Species"; not transcribed here.] 1 ``` [← "We Can Do It! 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Content note: Period satirical prose describing the killing of Chinese soldiers at Ningpo in graphic terms, using period terms such as 'pig-tail' for Chinese people. - [La paz según el Perú – La paz según los chilenos (Peace According to Peru, Peace According to the Chileans)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/la-paz-segun-el-peru-el-banquillo-1880/) (Peru · Jun 12, 1880 · Card stacking) - [New York Journal and Advertiser, front page, 17 February 1898 ($50,000 reward, Maine 'work of an enemy')](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/ny-journal-maine-destroyed-enemy-1898/) (United States · Feb 17, 1898 · Card stacking)