Megan Wittman, megan.wittman@sierraclub.org
INDIANAPOLIS – This week, the Trump Administration is expected to announce a suite of rollbacks that bolster the coal and fossil fuel industries, threatening to keep our coal plants online longer and make our environment and climate dirtier. The administration is expected to revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s longstanding greenhouse gas endangerment finding under the federal Clean Air Act, and roll back the mercury and air toxics standards for power plants and greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles.
In response, Robyn Skuya-Boss, Sierra Club Hoosier Chapter Director, released the following statement:
“The Administration is making clear its top priority is cutting corners for the coal and fossil fuel industries with no regard to how it will harm our environment, climate, or Hoosiers struggling to afford their daily lives. The vision we’re being sold by the President with these rollbacks is a future where Goliath defeats David– where the President will back giant corporate polluters, instead of protecting our neighbors and neighborhoods already experiencing environmental harm caused by coal pollution. Hoosiers are struggling with the highest utility rates in years while already dealing with higher costs of rent, groceries, and other everyday expenses. Rather than addressing affordability as promised, these rollbacks ignore our affordability crisis to benefit the coal industry with taxpayer funded handouts left and right.”
See Sierra Club’s national statement on the elimination of the EPA’s endangerment finding here.
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