TPP's Environment

Many environmental groups are concerned with the state of TPP's environment. The U.S. free-trade agreements from 2007 failed to require that TPP countries to follow a set of international environmental treaties. The TPP’s rules wouldn’t do enough to protect the environment from illegal activities. Fracking, which is a the term for extracting oil/as, is something we could see a whole lot more of due to the TPP. The previous agreement means our Department of Energy would automatically have to accept all exports of liquefied natural gas to all TPP countries—including Japan. This means more fracking, pollution, climate emissions and reliance on fossil fuels would exist in the countries of TPP. TPP should have found more ways to be environmentally friendly to help the planet and embrace cleanliness. 

Source: (Solomon, 2015)

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