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Washington, DC– Today, Administrator Lee Zeldin’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) plans to release a proposal to revoke the Endangerment Finding, which is the legal and scientific foundation of EPA’s responsibility to limit climate-heating greenhouse gas pollution from major sources. In response, Moms Clean Air Force Director and Co-Founder Dominique Browning released the following statement:
“If your house catches fire, you call the fire department. Our planet is burning. EPA’s response? Do nothing. This is a shameful, reckless, and immoral move—all so wealthy, well-connected insiders can benefit.
“With President Trump’s encouragement, Lee Zeldin’s pollution spree is making it far easier for Americans to get sick, while the Trump administration is making it far harder and more expensive to get healthy. Families across the U.S. and across the world are already feeling the dangers of a hotter planet every single day as heat waves become more intense and deadly, floodwaters rise more rapidly, and harrowing wildfires burn across every season.
“We know that greenhouse gases from U.S. gas-fueled vehicles, fossil fuel power plants, methane from oil and gas operations, and other sources are contributing to the global warming that is putting our weather on steroids and threatening the stability of life as we know it.
“Zeldin is trying to roll back 15 years of progress towards cleaning up climate pollution—progress that Americans across the political spectrum strongly support. The solutions are pragmatic and have created new jobs and new industries—while our economy has grown. Moms Clean Air Force will oppose this rollback every step of the way. Loving our children requires fighting for their world.”
Over the years, Clean Car and Clean Truck Standards have resulted in passenger vehicles that emit far less climate pollution than they used to, and EPA’s proposed rule is expected to gut these protections as well. The transportation sector has been regulating greenhouse gases from tailpipes since 2011. According to EPA data, the transportation sector accounts for the largest segment (28%) of total climate pollution in the U.S., with vehicle tailpipe emissions accounting for 80% of the transportation sector’s greenhouse gas emissions. In response, Moms Clean Air Force Director of Federal Policy Melody Reis released the following statement:
“Last year, the Biden Administration finalized commonsense safeguards that would have resulted in less dangerous, planet-heating tailpipe pollution while also reducing children’s exposure to harmful soot and smog. Zeldin’s attempt to undo these protections flies in the face of what we know to be true: that the transportation sector contributes enormously to global warming. Greenhouse gas emissions from vehicle tailpipes account for the vast majority of the transportation sector’s climate impact. These emissions are driving climate chaos and endangering our children’s health, both today and for generations into the future. We cannot afford to put the brakes on clean air and climate progress now.”