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Edward Markey: “The Trump administration says, what the EPA says is that…”

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

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Fighting Trump's scorched-Earth policies this Earth Week with Climate Action Campaign.

Published | Video Starts at 07:36

And now Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump have repealed that endangerment finding not based on science, but based upon the contributions of the oil and the gas and the coal industry.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 in their relationship with all of the pollution that is being sent up into the air. What they do, however, is put a price on what it takes for the oil, gas and coal industry to pay off the Trump administration. (07:36–07:53)

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Asserts that the Trump administration and EPA will not price health impacts of pollution.

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