Moms Clean Air Force Condemns Agency’s Disregard for Science and Public Health
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Washington, DC—EPA is expected to roll back the Endangerment Finding and clean vehicle standards this week. In anticipation of EPA’s announcement, Moms Clean Air Force Director & Co-Founder Dominique Browning released the following statement:
“It is impossible to imagine a morally defensible reason for Administrator Zeldin’s decision to end EPA’s responsibility for cutting the climate pollution that is endangering peoples’ health, harming children, and destabilizing our country. We are experiencing its damage right now, in our flooded backyards, on our drought-stricken farms, in hot cities, across all our communities. It will only get worse. Global warming is already creating affordability nightmares for Americans: Skyrocketing insurance prices for our health as ER visits mount from climate disasters; skyrocketing health insurance as climate-related diseases intensify; skyrocketing costs for disaster relief after homes are destroyed; skyrocketing costs for rebuilding communities devastated by extreme weather.
“The rollback of the Endangerment Finding makes one thing crystal clear. Zeldin, with the support of the entire Trump administration, especially Energy Secretary Chris Wright, has declared his allegiance to oil companies and other industrial polluters. He is running an EPA that does not care at all about making America healthy again, no matter how much lip service he pays to that important goal. Zeldin is gaslighting us—literally, given that he has also ordered EPA to delay implementation of stopping methane gas leaks.
“Zeldin’s decision is not supported by the science, which shows that the pace of global warming is accelerating faster than expected. It is not supported by public health data, by economics, by morality, or even, simply, stewardship of our Earth. It is not supported by the very evidence we are all feeling at home every month, as heat waves intensify and storms are turbocharged.
“It is sad to see America turn its back on global leadership in cutting emissions from tailpipes and other major sources, especially when the US has historically been by far the largest contributor of climate pollution in the first place. No other administration, ever, in the history of the Clean Air Act, has been so radically destructive. No other administration has ever shirked its responsibility to public health the way Zeldin is doing.
“Rolling back the Endangerment Finding is just the latest example of the way Zeldin has corrupted the very mission of the EPA: To protect human health and the environment. Zeldin’s legacy will be the suffering of our children and grandchildren. His radical agenda to let polluters off the hook – and to ignore the peoples’ health– must be stopped. Congress must hold Zeldin accountable with oversight hearings. Millions of Moms agree: Zeldin must go.”