Washington, D.C. — In response to today’s announcement from the Trump administration’s EPA to roll back limits on toxic air and carbon pollution from power plants, the League of Conservation Voters (LCV) issued the following statement from Vice President of Federal Policy and former EPA scientist Matthew Davis:

“President Trump and EPA administrator Zeldin continue to bow to their Big Polluter and billionaire allies’ wishes to weaken critical safeguards, cutting short the lives of tens of thousands of people each year and endangering our children’s developing brains. It doesn’t have to be this way — technologies to reduce the health-harming mercury and toxic air pollution and climate-threatening carbon pollution from dirty coal and gas power plants already exist and are currently installed and running. The Trump-Vance administration is giving away our children’s future to deliver more sweetheart deals to Big Polluters and their billionaire buddies. We will fight back against these unpopular, dangerous schemes that do not follow the science or law and put polluters above people.”

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