<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div apple-content-edited="true" class=""><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-horizontal-spacing: 0px; -webkit-border-vertical-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-decorations-in-effect: none; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; 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font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Monday, July 17, 2017</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Contact: Jonathon Berman, <a href="tel:(202)%20495-3033" value="+12024953033" target="_blank" class="">(202) 495-3033</a>, <a href="mailto:jonathon.berman@sierraclub.org" target="_blank" class="">jonathon.berman@sierraclub.org</a></span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><a href="https://content.sierraclub.org/press-releases/2017/07/trumps-promised-nafta-plan-keeps-workers-and-communities-dark" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">View as webpage</span></a></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Trump's Promised NAFTA "Plan" Keeps Workers and Communities in the Dark</span></span></div><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: Arial; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Administration Suggests Repeat of Widely-Opposed TPP Provisions</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Washington, DC</span><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> -- Today, the Trump administration </span><a href="https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Releases/NAFTAObjectives.pdf" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">released its objectives</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). The objectives suggest a repeat of labor and environmental provisions from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) -- a deal whose demise Donald Trump widely took credit for -- that were deemed too weak by virtually all leading labor and environmental groups. On other critical questions, the ostensibly “detailed” negotiating objectives provide no details, such as whether corporations will continue to be able to use NAFTA to sue governments over environmental protections in unaccountable tribunals of corporate lawyers. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">Earlier this year, leading environmental groups </span><a href="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/uploads-wysiwig/NAFTA%20Enviro%20Redlines%20FINAL.pdf" target="_blank" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">laid out a platform</span></a><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class=""> for replacing NAFTA with a trade deal that protects communities across the United States, Canada, and Mexico. The plans released by the administration today are generally silent on these objectives, and those outlined by unions, family farmers, and consumer groups. Instead of concrete objectives, today's announcement contained vague platitudes.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; font-weight: 700; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">In response, Sierra Club Executive Director Michael Brune released the following statement:</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">“In a blunt display of hypocrisy, Donald Trump appears to want to copy and paste the weak labor and environmental provisions of the TPP, a deal that Trump claimed to hate. Based on today’s ‘plan,’ one could be forgiven for concluding that Trump's opposition to the TPP was merely political theater and this administration has no intent of fundamentally changing NAFTA.</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">“Throughout his campaign, Trump pledged to workers and communities across the country that he would immediately fix a trade deal that has eroded wages and increased pollution. Instead, his long-awaited NAFTA 'plan' keeps workers and communities in the dark and offers only vague tweaks to a corporate trade deal that has harmed workers and communities for more than two decades. </span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">“The only way the deal that replaces NAFTA will benefit the public is if the negotiation process is conducted in the open, not in a corporate board room. Unsurprisingly, that doesn’t look like that’s what Trump has in mind. We cannot afford another trade deal that locks out the public and locks in fossil fuel dependency.”</span></span></div><span style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: medium; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);" class=""> </span><div style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 1.38; margin-top: 0pt; margin-bottom: 0pt;" class=""><span id="gmail-m_1686377111903645853gmail-m_-8053641499117408256docs-internal-guid-6181ac0e-5297-6f80-f7a4-ac2966442647" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Arial; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap;" class="">###</span></span></div><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><em class=""><u class=""><strong class="">About the Sierra Club</strong></u></em></p><p style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;" class=""><em class="">The Sierra Club is America’s largest and most influential grassroots environmental organization, with more than 3 million members and supporters nationwide. In addition to creating opportunities for people of all ages, levels and locations to have meaningful outdoor experiences, the Sierra Club works to safeguard the health of our communities, protect wildlife, and preserve our remaining wild places through grassroots activism, public education, lobbying, and litigation. For more information, visit <a href="http://www.sierraclub.org/" target="_blank" class="">http://www.sierraclub.org</a>.</em></p></div></div></span></span><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125);" class=""> </span></div><div style="margin: 0in 0in 0.0001pt; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><a href="http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2017-07-trumps-nafta-renegotiation-objectives-indicate-possible-attack" style="color: purple;" class="">http://www.foe.org/news/news-releases/2017-07-trumps-nafta-renegotiation-objectives-indicate-possible-attack</a></div><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Friends of the Earth news release<o:p class=""></o:p></h1><h1 style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 24pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Trump’s NAFTA renegotiation objectives indicate possible stealth attack on public health, food, agriculture<o:p class=""></o:p></h1><p class="date" style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;">Posted Jul. 17, 2017 / Posted by: Audrey Fox <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class="">WASHINGTON, D.C. –</strong> Today, U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer released the Trump Administration’s objectives for renegotiating the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). Trade promotion authority legislation requires the President to provide “a detailed summary” of the objectives of trade negotiations 30 days before negotiations begin.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class="">Friends of the Earth Senior Trade Analyst Bill Waren </strong>issued the following response: <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Donald Trump demonized NAFTA and the TPP during his presidential campaign and made assurances he would rework trade deals to protect the American people. Now, it appears that Trump has modified his message. Since taking office, Trump has shown repeatedly that he plans to “re-do” NAFTA to benefit corporations. <o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Trump’s statement indicates he plans to step up his war on public health and the planet by modeling NAFTA’s provisions related to environmental regulation on the TPP. These objectives appear to set the stage for a stealth attack on strong regulation of food, agriculture, chemicals, and biotechnology.<o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class="">Friends of the Earth’s detailed analysis of the Trump Administration’s objectives for NAFTA renegotiation <a href="http://webiva-downton.s3.amazonaws.com/877/a0/6/10591/Analysis_NAFTA_renegotiation_objectives.pdf" target="_blank" style="color: purple;" class="">can be found here.</a><o:p class=""></o:p></p><p style="margin-right: 0in; margin-left: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif;" class=""><strong class="">Expert contact:</strong> Bill Waren, (202) 222-0747, <a href="mailto:wwaren@foe.org" style="color: purple;" class="">wwaren@foe.org<br class=""></a><strong class="">Communications contact: </strong>Erin Jensen, (202) 222-0722, <a href="mailto:ejensen@foe.org%20" style="color: purple;" class="">ejensen@foe.org</a><o:p class=""></o:p></p><div class=""><br class=""></div>
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