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The environmental movement could have a bad year in 2017. Environmentalists saw their favored political party suffer losses in the 2016 election. Billionaire Tom Steyer was 2016’s biggest political donor, pouring more than $87 million into Democratic coffers — but his preferred candidates lost across the board. President Barack Obama is leaving office Jan. 20, and President-elect Donald Trump will take his place. Republicans control both chambers of Congress, and have vowed to roll back Obama-era environmental regulations. That’s bad for environmentalists, but it could be even worse for these seven reasons:

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Sierra Club says it will block an energy company's plan to export liquefied natural gas from the booming Marcellus Shale formation. Virginia-based Dominion Resources Inc. is seeking to export 1 billion cubic feet per day through a terminal it owns in Maryland. A previous legal settlement gives the Sierra Club the ability to reject any significant changes to the purpose or footprint of the existing natural gas terminal in Cove Point, Md.

...How big a space do two people need?” asked Philip Dowds, a Massachusetts Sierra Club official and professional architect. “A 20,000 square-foot house - the resources that it takes to put it together and the land that it needs, this just can’t happen anymore.”

<p>The Sierra Club, a leading U.S. environmentalist group, plans to run advertisements criticizing Ford Motor Co. for making vehicles that are less fuel-efficient now -- on its 100th birthday -- than when it began.</p> <p>The ads, scheduled to run in The New York Times and BusinessWeek, note that the Model T got 25 miles to the gallon nearly a century ago. The headline reads, "1903-2003 A Century of Innovation ... except at Ford." Dearborn, Michigan-based Ford's average vehicle now gets 22.6 miles per gallon, with its popular Explorer sports utility vehicle getting 16 miles per gallon, according to the Sierra Club ad.</p>

I am going to crash this party... Anybody want in? Subject: Experts To Detail Full Scope of Bush Assaults on U.S. Public Lands FYI Rose Correira President Alliance for America http://www.ems.org/advisories/public_lands.html MEDIA ADVISORY FOR: Thursday, February 27, 2003 CONTACT: Elisabeth Ensley, EMS, 202/463-6670 Kalee Kreider, Fenton Communications, 202/822-5200 Experts To Detail Full Scope Of Bush Assaults On U.S. Public Lands Attacks, Giveaways Include National Parks, National Forests, Other Public Lands Coast-to-Coast; Rewriting the Rules to Put Drilling, Logging, Mining Interests Ahead of the Public Interest Washington - The broadest and most aggressive assault in history on America's public lands is...

<p>Last month, environmental groups across the country hollered like banshees when politicians and local communities began taking them to task for the massive wildfires that are today gutting the West. The crescendo came when Arizona's Gov. Jane Dee Hull, watching half a million acres of her state go up in smoke, flatly blamed greenies for obstructing work to clean up national forests. She was talking about the never-ending stream of appeals and lawsuits they file to halt thinning, road building and firebreaks.</p>