News Reports: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Wants to Strike Down EPA’s Endangerment Finding

Decision Would Trample Science and Violate the Law; Would Harm Millions of Americans Suffering from Climate Pollution

News reports today say EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has urged the Trump White House to take the unprecedented and unlawful step of striking down EPA’s Endangerment Finding. The Endangerment Finding is EPA’s bedrock determination that climate pollution harms human health and welfare. It is the foundation for EPA’s actions to protect people from climate-destabilizing pollution, is built on a mountain of scientific evidence, and has been affirmed the U.S. Supreme Court multiple times.   

“Americans are already suffering devastating impacts from the climate pollution that is fueling worsening disasters like heat waves and floods, more intense fires and hurricanes, and dangerous smog levels. Any action by the Trump administration to reverse the Endangerment Finding would trample science, be contrary to law, and worsen the harms that are already being felt by Americans in communities across the country. 

“Such an effort would be reckless, unlawful, and ignore EPA’s fundamental responsibility to protect Americans from destructive climate pollution. We will vigorously oppose it.”   

            - Vickie Patton, General Counsel, Environmental Defense Fund 

Read more about the Endangerment Finding in our blog post – Danger ahead: the Trump administration’s attack on EPA’s finding that climate pollution harms public health

EDF also sent a letter to EPA on Tuesday with more information about the Endangerment Finding. You can read that here. 

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