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Scientists and environmental advocates say the move further endangers our planet and clean air
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"As if any doubt remained, the Trump administration has formalized climate denial as the official policy of the United States government. If approved, [this] would strike a decisive
blow to the EPA's authority to limit deadly greenhouse gas emissions and protect our people and our planet from the very worst of the climate crisis."
- Sierra Club Acting Executive Director Loren Blackford
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Below is an excerpt of an article from Sierra magazine about Trump's EPA's dangerous decision to roll back its own power to do its job of protecting us from greenhouse-gas pollution
and fighting climate change. We invite you to read the full article here. <http://click.emails.sierraclub.org/?qs=c17ce76050d5fc449588bf02a7f6dc113bee1e3844b2341f0288b11802008ae6617ec7f7eed4cc35992f
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EPA Moves to Roll Back Endangerment Finding, Threatening Climate Action
Scientists and environmental advocates say the move further endangers our planet and clean air
From Sierra magazine by Dana Drugmand
The Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump is following through on a plan that will revoke its primary authority to control the greenhouse gas emissions that endanger
human health and welfare. The move, if it succeeds, represents a major blow to the global effort to act on runaway climate change just as rates of extreme weather, biodiversity loss,
and glacier melting accelerate.
On July 29, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced a formal proposal to rescind the greenhouse gas endangerment finding. Zeldin claimed that measures aimed at curbing emissions are more
harmful than the climate change impacts stemming from these emissions. The rollback proposal also cites a new Department of Energy report authored by climate contrarians who question
the scientific consensus on the causes and dangers of unchecked global heating.
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Along with rescinding the endangerment finding, the EPA is also proposing to eliminate greenhouse gas emission standards for motor vehicles. The transportation sector is the biggest
source of these planet-warming emissions in the US. Last year, the Biden administration finalized the strongest-ever rules to curb climate pollution from vehicles -- an action that
was expected to slash more than 7 billion tons of carbon emissions by 2055, avoid thousands of premature deaths, and yield nearly $100 billion in annual net benefits through reduced
fuel and maintenance costs and public health cost savings.
Repealing the motor vehicle emissions standards will also cede US leadership in the $10 trillion global clean transportation market and will lead to higher prices for consumers in terms
of vehicle fuel costs, experts say. "In the regulatory impact analysis that accompanied the proposal, EPA reveals that their proposal will increase gas prices by nearly 75 cents a gallon,"
Josh Berman, a senior attorney with the Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program, told Sierra.
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In Solidarity,
Sierra Club
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Dana Drugmand is a freelance environmental journalist covering topics such as climate accountability and climate change lawsuits, greenwashing and false climate solutions, plastics and
petrochemicals, and environmental law and justice. In addition to Sierra, her writing has appeared in DeSmog, The New Lede, YES! Magazine, New Internationalist, Common Dreams, Truthout,
and Earth Island Journal, among other outlets.
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