WASHINGTON, Feb. 19 -- Sen. Ron Wyden issued the following press release:
U.S. Senators Ron Wyden and Jeff Merkley said today they have joined Senate colleagues in launching an investigation into Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin's decision to repeal the bedrock scientific determination underpinning the EPA's ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
The endangerment finding, which was finalized in 2009, was repealed as a part of the Trump administration's rollback of pollution standards for vehicles. The repeal is happening at the same time that the EPA has decided it will no longer account for health costs in clean air rulemaking and will only consider costs to industry.
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