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Edward Markey: “The EPA now assigns no value to American lives that would be…”

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

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'That's Not What I Said': Ed Markey Assails Lee Zeldin Over Climate Change, Gas Costs

Published | Video Starts at 00:20

Thank you, Madam Chair. Thanks to Trump's war on Iran, gasoline prices have shot up by a buck 20 per gallon and are now above $4.20 a gallon nationwide. That's more than … The EPA now assigns no value to American lives that would be saved by protection action. … this rollback is legal. I don't think it is. These standards are based on the endangerment finding, which states that the scientific fact that greenhouse gases cause climate change, which endangers our health. (00:20–00:33)

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Asserts that the EPA does not assign monetary value to lives saved by protective actions.

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