PHILADELPHIA, PA (February 12, 2026) – Today, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the repeal of the Endangerment Finding and greenhouse gas standards for vehicles. This 2009 finding solidified that greenhouse gases endanger human health and safety by worsening climate change. The finding, based on decades of scientific consensus, is a ruling that has been the basis for the U.S. federal government’s authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. By repealing the Endangerment Finding and greenhouse gas standards for vehicles, the Trump administration is acting on its climate chaos agenda and undercutting EPA’s ability to protect health and the environment. 

Lawrence Hafetz, Clean Air Council’s Legal Director, issued the following statement:

“The Endangerment Finding has been the backbone of climate policy for 17 years, protecting us from air pollution that endangers public health and welfare — including greenhouse gases that are driving climate change. By repealing the finding, we are sweeping the single deadliest type of pollution, climate pollution, under the rug. Deadly floods, droughts, wildfires, and hurricanes are harming our health, our communities, and our economy. This climate chaos plan is decimating the EPA’s ability to act when we need protections more than ever.”

But New Report Warns That Recent One-Time Biden Grants to PA Department of Environmental Protection Will be Cut Under Trump

Washington, DC – At a time when the Trump Administration is proposing sharp cuts to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, claiming that states can take on more responsibility for environmental oversight, more than half of states (27) have cut their environmental agency budgets over the last 15 years, according to EIP’s report, “State of Decline: Cuts to State Pollution Control Agencies Compound Damage from the Dismantling of EPA.”

Three states reported recent jumps in pollution-control funding — Pennsylvania, Idaho, and Tennessee — from short-term federal grants during the Biden Administration. These temporary boosts in federal funding for state environmental agencies will not continue under the Trump Administration, meaning that these states could see sharp declines in federal support for their state environmental agencies in upcoming years.

In 2024, the PA Department of Environmental Protection’s (DEP) budget rocketed upwards by 62 percent in just one year. This was mainly because of a one-time injection of funds that Pennsylvania received from the Biden Administration’s climate and infrastructure initiatives. The number of full-time equivalent DEP employees increased by 136 (or 5.5 percent) in one year. But even with this increase, staffing still remains similar to what it was a decade and a half ago, before much of the fracking boom. DEP had 2,552 employees in fiscal 2010 and 2,597 employees in 2024.

“Pennsylvania threw the doors wide open to the depredations of the fracking industry two decades ago, but has not given its Department of Environmental Protection the resources to keep it in line,” said Alex Bomstein, Executive Director of the Clean Air Council. “We are now all suffering the sickness and pollution from our leaders letting a lawless industry run wild through our neighborhoods and backyards.”

Deep reductions at the state level mean that the Trump Administration’s planned downsizing of the EPA – with a vote by Congress planned next month on a proposal to slash EPA’s budget – will have an increased impact on pollution control efforts across the country. Not only will the federal pollution cop no longer be on the beat, state authorities may not show up either — because state inspectors have also been laid off in many areas.

“The Trump Administration is attempting to dismantle EPA and rollback commonsense federal pollution rules, claiming that the states can pick up the slack and protect our communities – but that’s not the case,” said Jen Duggan, Executive Director of the Environmental Integrity Project. “The implementation of our environmental laws depend on both a strong EPA and state agencies that have the resources they need to do their jobs. But our research found that many states have already cut their pollution control agencies and so more cuts at the federal level will only put more Americans at risk.”

EIP’s report found that seven states reduced their pollution control funding by at least a third from 2010 through 2024, when adjusted for inflation. The steepest budget cuts were led by Mississippi’s decision to slash its environmental agency by 71 percent, South Dakota’s 61 percent cut, and Connecticut’s 51 percent reduction. (See list and map below.)

Almost two thirds of states (31) also cut jobs at their environmental agencies from 2010 through 2024, eliminating 3,725 positions over this period, with North Carolina imposing the steepest percentage cuts (32 percent), followed by Connecticut (26 percent), Arizona (25 percent), and Louisiana (24 percent) 

California led a handful of states — including Colorado and Vermont — that have dramatically increased funding for their environmental agencies since 2010. In part as a response to climate change, California quadrupled its state spending on pollution control programs over the last 15 years, while its greenhouse gas emissions fell and its economic productivity grew.

Among the findings of EIP’s report:

• The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) had its budget slashed by 33 percent, when adjusted for inflation, from 2010 to 2024, seventh most among states. At the same time, the number of facilities in Texas with air pollution control permits grew significantly, including for the expanding oil and gas industry.
• Louisiana faces growing environmental challenges from a booming LNG industry, but reduced funding for the Department of Environmental Quality by 26 percent from 2010 to 2024, when adjusted for inflation, and cut staffing at the pollution control agency by 24 percent, with the latter ranking fourth highest in the U.S.
• Florida, a rapidly growing state, cut the largest total number of jobs from its state pollution control agency from 2010 to 2024, reducing staffing at the Department of Environmental Protection from 2,096 to 1,702 and cutting 394 jobs (or 19 percent).
• In terms of percentage of staffing cut, North Carolina had the largest percent decrease in personnel at its environmental agency (32 percent), meaning the elimination of 386 environmental agency jobs. 
• Collectively, the 27 state agencies with budget decreases had their budgets cut by $1.4 billion (or about 33 percent), when adjusted for inflation, over the last 15 years.
• Nationally, seven of the 10 states with the largest percent cuts to their environmental agencies from 2010 to 2024 had Republican governors in a majority of these 15 years, while only three had mostly Democratic governors.

Cuts to environmental agency budgets have occurred in states controlled by Democrats and Republicans. For example, Connecticut, New York, and Illinois – along with Mississippi and Alabama – have slashed their state environmental agencies over the last 15 years, meaning that residents could be hit with more pollution if EPA does not have the necessary resources to do its job. Illinois trimmed its environmental agency budget by 21 percent over the last 15 years, when adjusted for inflation, even more than Indiana or West Virginia, which had 19 percent cuts.

Inflation-adjusted funding for EPA has been on a gradual decline for about two decades, during both Republican and Democratic administrations. From 2010 to 2025, Congress and the President slashed the agency’s budget by 40 percent from $15 billion in fiscal 2010 to $9 billion in 2025, when adjusting for inflation. Over the same period, EPA’s workforce shrank by at least 18 percent, declining from 17,278 to 14,130. This does not include the thousands of more staff — as much as 33 percent — who have quit or been fired since President Trump’s second inauguration on January 20.

On top of these losses, more cuts to EPA could be coming in January, when Congress is expected to vote on the pollution control agency’s budget for fiscal 2026. The White House has been seeking to slash EPA’s budget by 55 percent, or $4.2 billion, leaving the agency with funding levels not seen in four decades. House Republicans have proposed a 23 percent cut, while the Republican-led Senate Committee on Appropriations has endorsed only a 5 percent cut to EPA.

“The evidence in this report bolsters the case against severe cuts to EPA’s budget and staff, because many states have already weakened critically important programs that are supposed to protect our nation’s waters, lands, and air,” said Duggan. “If both lines of defense fail – with harsh cuts to environmental agencies at both the federal and state level – public health, our natural resources, and the global climate will suffer grave harm.”

For a copy of the report, click here.   For a spreadsheet with data on all 50 states, click here.

WASHINGTON D.C. (November 26, 2025) –  Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released its final rule to delay critical methane protections—which EPA released in 2024. This rule comes after EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin unlawfully used the Interim Final Rule process to immediately delay the 2024 Methane Rule without allowing Americans, including impacted residents, to voice their concerns about how the delay will harm their health. 

The methane-mitigating technologies and strategies required by the rule are readily available and cost-effective. However, instead of requiring industry polluters to comply with these commonsense protections, Administrator Zeldin has illegally pushed the Delay Rule ahead to give oil and gas companies a free pass for their pollution.

As a result of this delay, people living closest to oil and gas infrastructure are continuing to be unnecessarily exposed to pollution from the industry, which would otherwise have been addressed through the 2024 Methane Rule. Once fully implemented, the 2024 Methane Rule is expected to reduce 58 million tons of climate-warming methane emissions, 16 million tons of health-harming volatile organic compounds, and 590 thousand tons of hazardous air pollutants by 2038. The Rule is estimated to prevent nearly 100 thousand cases of asthma symptoms each year.

Alex Bomstein, Executive Director of Clean Air Council, issued the following statement:

“The delay of the 2024 Methane Rule is EPA’s latest move to favor polluters while sacrificing the health of Americans who live closest to oil and gas infrastructure. Strong methane standards have widespread and bipartisan support as a commonsense policy to reduce both pollution and waste.”

August 15, 2025 – On July 29, 2025, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced a proposal to rescind the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding. This finding specifically states that greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, that are produced by vehicles and polluters are critically dangerous to human health. These and other greenhouse gases are considered air pollutants under the Clean Air Act (CAA) by the Supreme Court in Massachusetts v. EPA (2007). 

Simply put, the Supreme Court considered empirical scientific data on climate change when forming the Massachusetts opinion, not solely legal reasoning. This is a critical nuance as it considers the EPA’s authority to regulate greenhouse gases to be much more than a political ploy. As such, in 2007, the Court determined that the EPA has a legal duty to act because the emissions of greenhouse gases harm human health and fuel climate change. Today, Administrator Zeldin actively denies that climate change is an imminent danger to the American public. But, from disastrous floods to devastating wildfires, the immediate impacts of climate change pose a public health crisis right in front of our faces. 

The “Climate Chaos Plan” to repeal the endangerment finding would not only give polluters a free pass, but would subject the general population to a significantly decreased quality of life. The proposed rescission is technically legal, but without the ability to formally recognize threatening pollutants for what they are, the EPA won’t have authority to regulate them under the CAA. This is an outright denial of critical scientific data compiled by esteemed scientists around the globe. Trump and Zeldin’s plan ignores basic pillars of human health and the ongoing climate crisis, all to ensure polluting facilities stay in business. If passed, this “Climate Chaos Plan” will ultimately allow the fossil fuel industry to emit greenhouse gases at mass rates, putting the general population at further risk. These risks include more respiratory illness (both chronic and acute), catastrophic wildfires, and disease-carrying insects, as well as less safe drinking water.

Trump and Zeldin’s plan drastically contradicts the EPA’s core purpose. Where the goal once was to protect the public from climate change, the current administration has manipulated the narrative. Stripping away cornerstone protections on public health and climate change to allegedly save a quick buck is not in the best interest of the population nor the environment. The plan will not provide the economic opportunity it alleges. Instead, it will drive up the costs of everyday goods, healthcare, and energy. 

Your health should not be up for debate. Take action today to protect your family’s future from the “Climate Chaos Plan.” The EPA is holding mandatory public comment hearings on the proposed rule on August 19 and 20, 2025, and a potential additional session on August 21, 2025. To register, email EPA-MobileSource-Hearings@epa.gov. The public comment period for written comments ends on September 15, 2025. 

PHILADELPHIA, PA (July 29, 2025) – Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced today that the Trump Administration is proposing to repeal the 2009 finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety. Called the “Endangerment Finding,” this scientific ruling has been the basis for the U.S. federal government’s duty to protect us from fossil fuels and greenhouse gas emissions. As Zeldin himself said, this move is “a dagger into the heart” of the fight against the climate crisis.  

In 2009, after being ordered by the United States Supreme Court to fulfill its duties, EPA comprehensively reviewed climate science and arrived at an inescapable and long-understood conclusion: emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are endangering public health and welfare by driving climate change. The supporting scientific evidence has since grown exponentially stronger while Americans and the global community have suffered from the increased deadly fires, storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, and other impacts from climate disruption. 

Alex Bomstein, Clean Air Council Executive Director, issued the following statement:

“Repealing the endangerment finding is the same as saying that the single deadliest type of pollution—climate pollution—is actually safe and EPA can sweep it under the rug. Whether the Trump EPA wants to acknowledge this reality or not, the harms of the climate crisis are already here, from dangerous ozone days, extreme heat and wildfires, to devastating storms and flooding. The Trump administration seeks to funnel money into the pockets of the oil and gas industries and their allies while poisoning the rest of us. We cannot let it be finalized.”

WASHINGTON (July 9, 2025) – Community and environmental groups filed suit today to force the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to address the threat of an unnecessary and dangerous chemical used in dozens of American refineries despite its potential to form toxic acid clouds.

The groups are filing the suit after the EPA rejected the groups’ petition to address the needless risks from use of hydrogen fluoride (HF)—an extremely corrosive chemical that, if released to the air, can form a lethal, ground-hugging plume that can travel for miles, causing severe injury or death to anyone in its path. More than forty oil refineries across the country—currently owned by companies including ExxonMobil, Marathon, Valero, and Delta Airlines, among others—use HF.

Several refineries across the country have started to replace HF with safer commercial-scale alternatives. HF can dissolve skin, muscle, and bone, disrupt essential bodily functions, and kill or permanently disable people who inhale or touch it. The chemical is still being used in refineries around the country, including at the Torrance and Wilmington refineries in the Los Angeles area and the Monroe Refinery, in Trainor, PA, refinery south of Philadelphia, putting millions at risk of exposure. HF endangers not only people near the refineries, but also those along train and truck routes used to transport the corrosive chemical.

The groups’ petition to EPA highlighted the horrific risks associated with a potential release of HF. It also discussed numerous near-miss incidents, some of which narrowly avoided exposing tens of thousands of people to the chemical. The federal government and oil industry have known for decades that a dense, ground-hugging cloud tends to spread from an HF release into the air. This propensity to form clouds makes HF harder to contain, and more dangerous, than alternative chemicals used in other refineries around the United States. Exposure to as little as 1 percent of one’s skin (about the size of one’s hand) to liquid HF can cause fatal injury because of how easily the chemical penetrates the skin and disrupts vital functions. Inhaling HF vapor or aerosols (small airborne droplets)—the most likely way people would be exposed if there were a major release—can also be deadly, causing people to drown in their own bodily fluids.

The case was filed in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California by Clean Air Council (CAC), Communities for a Better Environment (CBE), and NRDC (Natural Resources Defense Council). The groups have developed materials to inform the public if they live near a refinery using HF, and have included other information about each facility, such as its parent company, safety measures in place (or missing), and the number of people it puts at risk. If the case prevails, the Court will order EPA to develop a regulation to eliminate unreasonable risks from HF use at refineries. 

Following are quotes from groups lodging the Complaint:

“Needlessly risking release of this extremely hazardous chemical in our densely packed region where so many people could be injured or killed is reckless. All the other refineries in Pennsylvania, besides Monroe, manage to use safer alternatives,” said Alex Bomstein, Clean Air Council Executive Director. “The Philly refinery explosion in 2019 was a breath away from being a mass casualty incident due to HF. EPA needs to confront this risk, and we’re going to court to make sure it does.”

“HF is so dangerous, industrial safety experts have asked why it is still in use. LA County found the local refineries using it put millions at risk, so we are going to court to end this unnecessary and unnerving risk to the public,” said Alicia Rivera, Wilmington community organizer with Communities for a Better Environment. “Why should this hazard continue in a densely packed earthquake zone, even though all the other refineries in the state use far safer alternatives? This recklessness has got to stop.”

“Poison acid clouds engulfing refinery communities and transit corridors sounds like a horror movie, but it’s a real possibility as long as EPA refuses to engage,” said Matthew Tejada, senior vice president of Environmental Health at NRDC. “This is an unnecessary threat to the communities around dozens of refineries. Since the Agency won’t fix the situation, we are going to court to address it before people are hurt or killed. At a time when oil companies are making tens of billions of dollars every year in profit, the least they can do is adopt safer alternatives that better protect the communities near their facilities.”

More information can be found on NRDC’s website at https://www.nrdc.org/court-battles/hydrogen-fluoride-refineries.

PHILADELPHIA, PA (June 16, 2025) Today, local officials and health and environmental groups joined in Love Park to express their “love” for EPA and how its protections for Pennsylvanians must be saved. The EPA’s core mission is to protect the American people and their communities from dangerous and deadly pollution – instead, through rolling back and attacking pollution protections, Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin are putting polluters over people, and putting Pennsylvanians at more risk. Speakers addressed the importance of a strong EPA for healthy kids, clean air, safe drinking water, and a more stable climate. They also rallied Congress to protect Americans from dangerous pollution by ensuring we have scientists and public health experts working at a strong EPA and by providing appropriate funding for EPA’s critical work to protect our health and environment. 

“When the EPA was first envisioned, the air in many of our cities and industrial hubs here in Pennsylvania was thick with dangerous and often deadly particles, a smog emitted by corporations that reaped astronomical profits as they poisoned our neighbors and toxified our lands,” said Senator Nikil Saval, Pennsylvania’s First Senatorial District. “The dedicated workers at the EPA—the scientists and public health experts whose labor has saved millions of lives and trillions of dollars since the EPA was created—changed this. These workers hold the line against powerful corporations that prioritize the wealth of their CEOs over our lives. They stand on behalf of people and planet, and we stand on behalf of them.”

“Simply put: weakening the EPA will make Philadelphia’s air, water, and soil dirtier, and everyday Philadelphians will foot the bill,” said Liz Lankenau, Director of Philadelphia’s Office of Sustainability. “We need to let our representatives hear, loud and clear, that we do not support the weakening of these vital supports and protections.”

“For decades, the EPA has been a critical line of defense against pollution, leveraging the expertise of scientists and public health experts to protect human health and the environment for all Americans,” said Alice Lu, Clean Air Council Policy Analyst. “Unfortunately, we have watched over the last few months as the current administration continues to indiscriminately gut the agency, coming after programs and standards that would both directly and indirectly benefit Pennsylvania residents.” 

“Prevention is cheaper than treatment, and it’s more successful, which means we need research and regulation from the EPA,” said Linnea Bond, Director of Education for Physicians for Social Responsibility Pennsylvania. “When we have seen pollution, contamination, and extreme weather wreak havoc on communities, the EPA coordinates a response to protect communities from further harm. In a world where industrial interests often trump those of the public, investing in the EPA protects our health and saves us money — both the medical systems we depend on and as individuals facing rising costs. Now more than ever, we need a robust EPA.”

“PennFuture calls for an adequately funded EPA that will ensure our communities are protected and have the opportunity to thrive,” said Annie Regan, Campaigns Director at PennFuture. “Recent polling shows that there is overwhelming public support for the EPA across all demographics as Pennsylvanians have seen what happens to their communities when industry is not regulated. The focus on making profits for fossil fuel power plants is taking priority over people’s health, their savings, and protecting the natural environment. Better air quality not only protects our health, but it means fewer missed work days, fewer trips to the doctor, and higher earnings for Pennsylvanian workers.”

PHILADELPHIA, PA (June 13, 2025) –  This week, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced proposals to repeal two rules that protect Americans’ health and future prosperity: the 2024 Mercury and Air Toxics Standards (MATS) which protect American families from being sickened by mercury, arsenic, and other poisonous heavy metals, and the 111 Power Plant rule that limits climate pollution from power plants.

The MATS, adopted in 2012, reduced the amount of toxic air pollution that coal- and oil-fired power plants may emit. These standards have successfully reduced by 85% heavy metal emissions, including mercury, which is a neurotoxin that can cause life-long brain injuries to infants and children. Power plants now expose communities to less arsenic and other heavy metals — pollutants linked to cancer, birth defects, and cardiovascular disease. The MATS are designed to be updated every 8 years to keep up with technological advances, and coal-fired power plants are still the largest American source of toxic metal pollution. Some of these airborne microscopic metal particles are inhaled, and may be small enough to travel through a person’s lungs into their bloodstream. Much of this pollution falls from the air onto homes and soil, or contaminates water bodies. Responding to the public need and technological advancement, EPA strengthened the MATS emission limits in 2024. Now Trump’s EPA is gutting those protections in an apparent attempt to prevent the modernization of American energy infrastructure in favor of propping up antiquated coal plants.

EPA finalized the Power Plants Rule last year to require coal- and gas-burning power plants to control 90% of their climate pollution. Once implemented, this Rule, along with related regulations and federal clean energy investments, was anticipated to prevent 30,000 premature deaths and save $275 billion per year. Climate heating is already causing Americans to suffer from more frequent severe storms and heat waves, food and water insecurity, and increased populations of disease-bearing insects like ticks. Yet Trump’s administration is focused on eliminating climate protections like the Power Plants Rule and withdrawing investments in renewable technologies. As a result, Trump may be ceding future energy leadership to other nations such as China, which has already secured the vast majority of the current global market in solar panel production. 

Alex Bomstein, Clean Air Council Executive Director, issued the following statement:

“By rolling back critical safeguards, EPA is prioritizing Trump’s polluters-first agenda over the health of American families suffering from developmental damage, cancer, and cardiovascular illness caused by needless heavy metal pollution. EPA Administrator’s Zeldin’s claim that promoting coal plants will lead to American ‘energy dominance’ is akin to insisting that we can lead the way in transportation by bolstering manufacturing of horse-drawn carriages or in communication technology by promoting production of corded telephones. We should instead be at the forefront of the global renewable energy revolution that vastly reduces harmful pollution and protects our health.”

PHILADELPHIA, PA (Friday, April 11) – Yesterday, Clean Air Council filed a Dispute of the termination of a Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) grant which would have enabled the Council to respond to health concerns of Delaware City, DE communities by providing concrete services. The $490,912 Environmental Justice Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) Cooperative Agreement grant was meant to establish air quality monitoring and help organize communities to study and protect themselves from air pollution emissions from the Delaware City Refinery. 

On March 12, 2025, EPA notified the Council in a form letter that EPA had terminated the CPS grant without specifying which of several factors allegedly applied. The letter stated only that the grant allegedly:

“provides funding for programs that promote or take part in DEI initiatives or environmental justice initiatives or other initiatives that conflict with the Agency’s policy of prioritizing merit, fairness, and excellence in performing our statutory functions; that are not free from fraud, abuse, waste, or duplication; or that otherwise fail to serve the best interests of the United States. The grant is therefore inconsistent with, and no longer effectuates, Agency priorities.”

Approximately 400 federal grants around the country were similarly terminated.

“We are disputing this unlawful decision because we remain committed to fighting for the Delaware City communities served through this grant,” said Alex Bomstein, Clean Air Council Executive Director. “The communities around the Refinery have long endured health, economic, and social harms from the Refinery’s air pollution emissions, and we will do everything in our power to continue to advocate for their rights to clean air, pure water, and a livable climate despite our grant being wrongly terminated.”

The grant, welcomed by the community, promised to provide the following: (1) setting up air quality monitors; (2) analyzing the data with community members; (3) assisting in community organizing; and (4) helping residents and community organizations to develop emergency response plans in case of an emergency caused by the Refinery, such as an accident causing a sudden large release of toxic air pollution.

WASHINGTON, D.C. (March 13, 2025) – Yesterday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that EPA will “reconsider” dozens of environmental protections. EPA’s rules protect millions of Americans from pollution and are crucial to averting the most devastating effects of the climate crisis. A key action on the chopping block is the Endangerment Finding – which is critical to regulating greenhouse gases and curbing climate change.

In 2009, after being ordered by the United States Supreme Court to fulfill its duties, EPA comprehensively reviewed climate science and arrived at an inescapable and long-understood conclusion: emissions of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are endangering public health and welfare by driving climate change. This determination, known as the “Endangerment Finding,” triggered EPA’s legal duty and provides its corresponding authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The supporting scientific evidence has since grown exponentially stronger while Americans and the global community have suffered from the increased deadly fires, storms, floods, droughts, heat waves, and other impacts from climate disruption. 

Yet now Zeldin’s EPA seeks to abdicate its duties to protect Americans from this threat to our health, economy, and national security by withdrawing the Endangerment Finding and vital environmental regulations. By denying the reality all around us and falsely declaring that greenhouse gases do not threaten human health, EPA would no longer be required to regulate them.

Alex Bomstein, Clean Air Council Executive Director, issued the following statement: 

“Scientists have known that greenhouse gases cause climate change since the 1800s, and we are all now living through the wildfires, floods, and other climate chaos that generations of unchecked climate pollution have sowed. EPA’s attempt to reverse the Endangerment Finding is like declaring that tobacco doesn’t cause cancer and alcohol is fine for your liver. In attempting to deny reality, the Trump EPA wants to abandon efforts to protect us from the defining crisis of our time. We can’t let them do that.”