Zeldin Seeks to Dismiss Scientific Consensus On Public Health Harm of Greenhouse Gas Emissions By Eliminating the EPA’s Endangerment Finding
WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin responded today to President Trump’s executive order seeking the feasibility of repealing the agency’s 2009 scientific finding under the Clean Air Act, which summarized the consensus scientific assessment that greenhouse gas emissions from burning fossil fuels were harming the public health and general welfare and therefore must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. According to reports today, Zeldin urged the White House to abandon the finding . In response, David Arkush, director of Public Citizen’s Climate Program, issued the following statement:
“The EPA not only has an obligation to oversee greenhouse gas emissions, it has a moral imperative to do everything it can to slow down the climate crisis. Zeldin’s move to undermine the 15-year old endangerment contradicts untold volumes of scientific evidence that climate change is extraordinarily harmful and is caused by the burning of fossil fuels, which release greenhouse gases.”
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