The administration’s plan to revoke the Endangerment Finding, the mechanism by which EPA is required under the Clean Air Act to cut emissions that contribute to global warming from vehicles, power plants, and other sources, is the “latest salvo in Zeldin’s pollution spree, one that clearly demonstrates he doesn’t care about global warming or air pollution,” writes Moms’ Co-founder and Director Dominique Browning in a just-published guest essay for Newsday.
Tell Administrator Zeldin: Cutting Climate Pollution Is Essential for Our Families’ Health
EPA is mission-bound to protect people, but Zeldin, ignoring science, is doing everything he can to roll back regulations that clean up our air—all on behalf of massively wealthy fossil fuel companies. Dominique notes, “No one else benefits, except his bosses, Office of Management and Budget Director Russell Vought, Project 2025’s architect, and President Donald Trump, who are pulling his strings. Under them, we can call Zeldin’s shop the Environmental Pollution Agency.”
In the essay, Dominique says that she has never seen such a “damaging, cynical and dangerous government-led mess of a response,” adding that it’s destroying progress we have been making with “pragmatic, affordable solutions for curbing climate pollution—and that were also good for the economy and creating jobs.”
Zeldin has referred to the Endangerment Finding as “the holy grail of the climate change religion.” Dominique writes that this rhetoric about religion is “ignorant” and that the only religion at EPA today belongs to Trump and Zeldin and “it’s based not on science but the feeling that there is indeed something larger than all of us: Money. The only worshiping going on in this administration is of fossil fuels, our ‘beautiful liquid gold’ to quote Trump.”
It’s now up to EPA and political leadership to act. “Climate change is decimating our lives, health, homes, and communities. It’s costing us in health care, home insurance and the billions of dollars to rebuild our houses, churches, schools, roads and towns, if rebuilding is even possible,” Dominique writes.
Read the full essay in Newsday.
Tell Administrator Zeldin: Cutting Climate Pollution Is Essential for Our Families’ Health