{"id":19156,"date":"2025-04-17T08:47:51","date_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:47:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/?p=19156"},"modified":"2025-04-17T08:47:51","modified_gmt":"2025-04-17T12:47:51","slug":"take-action-on-earth-day-tuesday-april-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/2025\/04\/take-action-on-earth-day-tuesday-april-22\/","title":{"rendered":"Take Action on Earth Day, Tuesday, April 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Earth-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-19160\" src=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Earth-2-300x201.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"201\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Earth-2-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Earth-2-1024x688.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Earth-2-768x516.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Earth-2-560x376.jpg 560w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Earth-2-150x101.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.greenneedham.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/Earth-2.jpg 1251w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>As Earth Day 2025 approaches, we are faced with an all-out assault on environmental protection and climate action. Under the Trump administration, the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement was followed by a raft of shocking actions. The administration has rolled back environmental regulations, halted leases for offshore wind, made major cuts in climate research, promoted more burning of fossil fuels, and slashed the EPA budge<\/span><span style=\"font-size: small;\">t. Even the EPA&#8217;s &#8220;endangerment finding,&#8221; which determined that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, is in danger of being reversed.<\/span><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: small;\">Please join your Needham neighbors in an Earth Day\u00a0 protest\/vigil event on Tuesday, April 22, from 4:30 to 6:00 p.m. Participants will stand on the sidewalk on Highland Avenue opposite the Needham Library. Bring a sign or just come and stand with others who are concerned.<\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As Earth Day 2025 approaches, we are faced with an all-out assault on environmental protection and climate action. Under the Trump administration, the US withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement was followed by a raft of shocking actions. 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