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Dear Mr. President: Environmental "Trumptastrophe"

WYSO | By Jess Mador
Published May 11, 2017 at 4:33 PM EDT
Fairborn eight-year-old Raina Johnson describes herself as hopeful, despite worries over climate change.
WYSO/Joshua Chenault
Fairborn eight-year-old Raina Johnson describes herself as hopeful, despite worries over climate change.
Fairborn eight-year-old Raina Johnson describes herself as hopeful, despite worries over climate change.
Credit WYSO/Joshua Chenault
Fairborn eight-year-old Raina Johnson describes herself as hopeful, despite worries over climate change.

Dear Mr. President:

"The world I'm going to live in is going to have a good atmosphere."

Fairborn eight-year-old Raina Johnson, who likes Lego games and art, coined a phrase to describe the Trump administration's approach to environmental issues so far: "Trumptastrophe." 

Dear Mr. President asks what you want to say about your community, and what you want President Donald Trump to know about the Miami Valley. Submit your own letter by emailing it to wyso@wyso.org.  

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Jess Mador
Jess Mador comes to WYSO from Knoxville NPR-station WUOT, where she created an interactive multimedia health storytelling project called TruckBeat, one of 15 projects around the country participating in AIR's Localore: #Finding Americainitiative. Before TruckBeat, Jess was an independent public radio journalist based in Minneapolis. She’s also worked as a staff reporter and producer at Minnesota Public Radio in the Twin Cities, and produced audio, video and web stories for a variety of other news outlets, including NPR News, APM, and PBS television stations. She has a Master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism in New York. She loves making documentaries and telling stories at the intersection of journalism, digital and social media.
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