Drilling on public lands: Mapping the impact of Susan Collins putting Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court

• **Susan Collins voted to make Brett Kavanaugh a Supreme Court Justice**
• Kavanaugh vote to overturn the Chevron Doctrine undercutting federal regulators.
• **Trump relaxes rules for drilling on public lands**

“The Chevron deference was a bedrock doctrine that underlined challenges or defenses of federal land management and environmental rules. It was not pro- or anti-environment. Instead, it infused land management agencies with the ability to adapt law and policy to specific on-the-ground circumstances, which are rapidly evolving due to climate change.

Without the deference in place private interests can “achieve, through litigation, what they have been unable to achieve through the political system.” Special interests can now be more emboldened to bring cases to the high courts challenging agencies’ science- and fact-based decisions. With the Chevron deference effectively kicked to the curb, the knowledge-backed authority of agencies on land management now holds far less authority in the courts. — Sierra Nevada Ally

Hold Susan Collins accountable for putting Kavanaugh on the Supreme Court

What else did Susan Collins vote for Kavanaugh get you?

• Made it harder for our government to enforce environmental laws against polluters
• **Overturned Roe v Wade making abortion illegal in many states**
• Ended employment protections for LGBTQ workers
• Ban voting rules that ensured Black voters have a voice in Congress
• Block universities from seeking out qualified people of color in their hiring and for their student bodies
• Allow states to block kids from participating in the high school sport that aligns with their gender.
• Made it easier for Trump to send hundreds of thousands of people back to the unsafe countries of their birth, where they will face persecution, war, climate crises, and other threats.
• Empower Trump to fire the heads of independent agencies for no reason whatsoever, further undermining our ever-diminishing balance of power.
• Made it easier for judges to sentence children to life in prison and for people to carry loaded weapons into stores and hotels.
• Made it harder for Americans to sue companies that poison us with pesticides.
• Voted to lift limits on the amount of dark money that can be spent coordinating with candidates. — Maine Beacon

Corrupt Supreme Court pays back the oil billionaires who packed the court

TakeAway: Hold Susan Collins accountable. Fix the corrupt Roberts Supreme Court.

Deepak DemLabs

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