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Dear NRDC Activist,

The EPA’s public comment period on their proposal to reverse a legal landmark finding that protects U.S. residents from climate pollution and guts standards regulating carbon dioxide emissions from vehicles ends on September 22.

Your name isn’t showing up in our records as having submitted a comment — but this is a potentially devastating moment in the climate fight, and we need your help! Will you submit your comment today?

In case you missed it, let me catch you up on what’s been happening:

July 29: EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin makes an announcement riddled with climate denialism, saying the EPA wants to repeal the endangerment finding. This finding was established in 2009 and legally requires the government to protect us from climate change.
August 1: The EPA opens a public comment period, allowing people like you to weigh in. So far, over 28,000 NRDC members have submitted a comment!
August 19 - 21: The EPA holds public hearings. During these hearings, 637 people spoke. Only 19 people supported rollbacks. That means 97% of speakers want the EPA to protect against carbon dioxide, methane, and other climate-busting pollutants.

And that brings me to today. Only one week remains for you to have it on public record that you oppose the Trump administration’s efforts to end protections from harmful climate pollutants. Will you submit your comment before it’s too late?

When you submit a public comment supporting the endangerment finding and vital clean vehicle standards, you’re helping us strengthen our legal case if the EPA moves forward with this plan despite overwhelming opposition.

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Thank you for your support. We couldn’t do our work without you.

Sincerely,

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

P.S. The original email I sent about this issue is below.

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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