Women at the Forefront of Renewable Energy

Last week President Donald Trump announced to a dismayed world that the United States was “leaving” the Paris Agreement—the most important global accord to mitigate climate change.

by Shazia Rafi, AQA President, Women's Media Center

This announcement is the latest attack on the environment by this administration. I recently had the opportunity to interact directly with staff inside the Environmental Protection Agency on behalf of AirQualityAsia, a global advocacy campaign for clean air focusing on Asia’s rapidly growing economies. My exchanges with people inside the EPA provided a painful window into the agency, where dedicated staff are plugging away monitoring air quality and enforcing regulations that are still law while their work faces the Trump administration’s axe.

The administration’s assault on the environment includes threats to the EPA budget (the proposed budget cuts the EPA’s funding by about 30 percent), weakening of pollution regulations, and appointment of a climate-change skeptic as the EPA administrator. Women’s groups like Moms Clean Air Force have led public opposition to these policies at the March for Science and the Climate March.

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