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Submit a Public Comment to Stop the Trump Administration’s Latest Attack on our Climate

The Trump administration’s EPA is attempting to reverse the landmark legal finding that protects us from polluters who cause climate change. Here’s what you need to know:

-That EPA decision, called the endangerment finding, legally requires the government to protect people from climate-busting pollutants that endanger our health, including carbon dioxide, methane, and four others.

-This is a direct attack on EPA's authority to protect us from climate change.

-Big polluters will make big bucks while the rest of us pay the price for increasingly catastrophic climate disasters fueled by their pollution.

This repeal isn’t a done deal. Submit an urgent public comment to the EPA demanding they uphold their agency’s mandate to protect us from climate pollution.

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Dear NRDC Activist,

Even as record-breaking heat waves, floods, and wildfires endanger much of the country, die-hard fossil fuel industry allies in the Trump administration are determined to ignore climate change in order to fatten the wallets of oil executives. They are working to repeal the landmark endangerment finding, which would undermine the EPA’s legal authority to tackle the climate crisis.

This is illegal and cynical, and we will see the Trump administration in court if they follow through.

Submit an urgent public comment opposing the Trump administration’s efforts to repeal the endangerment finding and end protections from climate-busting pollution. We can’t let this happen.

Let me explain how we got here.

In 2009, the EPA found that carbon dioxide, methane, and other climate-changing pollutants are dangerous to our health and welfare. This finding, called the endangerment finding, became the scientific and legal foundation for Clean Air Act standards that cut climate pollution from some of the dirtiest industries.

Fast forward to now. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced his plan to repeal the endangerment finding once and for all. If his scheme is successful, then standards that limit pollution from oil, gas, coal, and other dirty energy sources could fall like dominos.

In fact, at the exact same time the EPA announced their intentions to repeal the endangerment finding, they also revealed their plans to gut standards limiting tailpipe pollution from cars and trucks.

These standards have undeniably made our air cleaner and safer — but instead of protecting our kids from asthma attacks, the Trump administration has made it clear they prefer to protect the interests of polluters.

Here’s the bottom line: Fringe climate deniers have targeted the endangerment finding before, and the courts have rejected every lawsuit attacking it. So we aren’t afraid to take the EPA to court if we have to once again.

You can help us strengthen our legal case by publicly supporting the endangerment finding and vital clean vehicle standards.

Submit your public comment TODAY reminding the EPA of their mandate to protect us from pollution that fuels the climate crisis and threatens our health.

Sincerely,

Meredith Hankins
Federal Climate Legal Director, Climate & Energy, NRDC

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