Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter Statement on Trump Administration’s Dismantling of Health and Climate Protections

Phoenix, AZ - Today, in a brazen assault on the health and welfare of people throughout the country, the Trump administration finalized decisions that severely gut decades of environmental progress. As it weakens the Environmental Protection Agency's mandate to protect human health and enforce protective regulations, Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin have eliminated the EPA's greenhouse gas endangerment finding, limiting the agency's authority to curb deadly greenhouse gas emissions - ignoring the science and the clear harmful health impacts of these emissions. EPA is also expected to dismantle strengthened pollution control standards for mercury and other toxic pollutants spewing from coal plants.

In response, Sierra Club Grand Canyon Chapter Director Sandy Bahr issued the following statement:

"In weakening public health protections, undermining science-affirming evidence about climate change, and enabling coal plants to pollute recklessly with no consequence, the Trump administration underscores that it continues to stay laser-focused on polluter profits, whose greed knows no end, not the health of people in our country. It has stripped EPA's authority in a move that will endanger lives now and for generations to come. We remain committed in the fight against the awful decisions that will long impact the air our communities breathe, the water we drink, and the rising temperatures that we and our families will be forced to endure."

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