Trump Seeks to Repeal Climate/Health Finding – Here’s How To Take Action
In 2009, the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency formally concluded that climate change resulting from rising levels of greenhouse gases in our atmosphere constitutes a serious threat to human health. The EPA’s conclusion was right then, and it remains correct today. This connection between greenhouse gases and human health is known as the “endangerment finding” and provides a critical legal basis for the EPA’s authority to regulate those gases.
Now the Trump Administration is telling the EPA to revoke that finding. If they do, it will threaten foundational climate protections addressing pollution from vehicles, power plants, and more.
The results could include these:
- Loss of vehicle emissions standards and clean air safeguards
- Rollback of methane and other greenhouse gas regulations
- Increased health risks, especially in vulnerable communities
- Legal and regulatory chaos that sets climate action back years.
Defies Science, Law, Common Sense
That’s why we encourage concerned citizens to contact the EPA now and tell them to protect the “endangerment finding.”
“EPA’s disregard for the dangers of greenhouse gases defies science, law, and common sense,” declared Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell.
“LCV is appalled by the Trump administration’s decision to once again turn its back on its obligations to the people just to benefit Big Oil and other polluters,” said LCV Vice President of Government Affairs Sara Chieffo. “Unravelling the Endangerment Finding and rolling back vehicle pollution standards is a shocking, if not surprising, leap backwards on climate and the United States’ leadership on the international stage.”
Take Action
The EPA is continuing to take public comments through mid-September on its initial decision to revoke the endangerment finding. We must stop the EPA’s revocation of the endangerment status, and that starts with telling the EPA that it cannot finalize that science-denying decision.
