Oregon Gov Pledges To Continue Making Citizens Fight ‘Climate Change’

The governor, who takes lots of fossil fueled travel herself, isn’t a fan of the Trump admin’s EPA moving to get rid of the Obama era endangerment finding. She had never made the scam a top priority, but, you know, Orange Man Bad is in office, so

Kotek pledges to continue Oregon’s climate change fight after EPA revokes key scientific finding

Gov. Tina Kotek said Tuesday that Oregon will continue its efforts to reduce carbon emissions, despite the Trump administration’s announcement it’s rolling back environmental regulation of the fossil fuel industry.

The Environmental Protection Agency is revoking a scientific finding that has been used to set stricter greenhouse gas emissions standards and fight climate change under the Clean Air Act. The Endangerment Finding focused on six greenhouse gas emissions found in the atmosphere, including carbon dioxide and methane — powerful carbon emissions, that threaten public health and welfare.

“Oregonians value public health decisions based on science, not politics,” Kotek said in a statement. “We need our federal government to stand with us by reducing air pollution that reaches across state boundaries. Oregon has climate pollution reduction goals and programs grounded in science, and we will continue on our path forward despite this backward step by the Trump Administration.”

She said the Endangerment Finding, which came out 16 years ago, paved the way for federal action to reduce carbon pollution, especially from tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks.

The endangerment finding didn’t make the air cleaner, it just made vehicles and energy more expensive, all to reduce a negligible trace gas. Yet, I do not see Tina replacing all the state vehicles with EVs. Weird, eh? Regardless, this is the way it is supposed to work: the Constitution gave Congress no authority to do what the EF did, hence, it should be up to the states.

According to the EPA, if Tuesday’s action is finalized the agency would “repeal all resulting greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines, thereby reinstating consumer choice and giving Americans the ability to purchase a safe and affordable car for their family while decreasing the cost of living on all products that trucks deliver.”

Meredith Connolly, director of policy and strategy at Northwest-based nonprofit Climate Solutions, said the Trump proposal is another devastating blow in the fight against climate change.

“What this does is unilaterally disarm the EPA from being able to regulate and reduce emissions from power plants, from vehicles, from oil and gas drilling,” she said. “They’re doing so by claiming that climate change and climate pollution does not hurt people’s health or welfare and therefore, there’s nothing they have to do about it to protect people. It’s completely upside down.”

Hey, you don’t have to convince me, Meredith, I’m already onboard with killing the EF.

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