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Edward Markey: “Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump have repealed that endangerment…”

Featuring: Edward Markey, Democratic | U.S. Senate Massachusetts

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Published | Video Starts at 07:20

And In April of 2007, the Supreme Court ruled that the EPA had to make an endangerment finding the danger that was affecting the Massachusetts coastline and our whole country. And they made that determination. And now Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump have repealed that endangerment finding not based on science, but based upon the contributions of the oil and the gas and the coal industry. That is what is happening. What the Trump administration says, what the EPA says is that they are no longer going to put a price on the health of Americans … (07:20–07:34)

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Asserts that the endangerment finding was repealed due to industry contributions, not science.

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