In Connecticut, we have seen increasing heat waves, extreme precipitation, devastating floods impacting everything, farming school closures, damaging homes and businesses. Climate change is harming our health and our environment, but is also harming Americans financially. This administration is running the playbook on making the problem worse, focusing on policies that are handouts to the fossil fuel companies, like reversing the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding, rolling back fuel emission standards for motor vehicles and reducing methane leak monitoring requirements. The budget proposal reads like a climate changed deniers manifesto. When climate change is flooding our streets, poisoning our air, driving up health care and disaster courts high, how can … (02:33–02:56)
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Asserts that the administration is enacting policies favoring fossil fuel companies and reversing environmental protections.
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