Leader Schumer Floor Remarks On The Trump Administration’s Plan To Repeal The Endangerment Finding, Reversing Essentially All Greenhouse Gas Regulations

Washington, D.C. - Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) today spoke on the Senate floor slamming the Trump administration for caving to Big Oil by announcing they plan to repeal the Endangerment Finding, which would reverse essentially all greenhouse gas regulations. Below are Senator Schumer's remarks, which can also be viewed here:

This week, the Trump administration is set to take one of its most nakedly corrupt steps since Donald Trump returned to office, and that's saying a lot: a wholesale reversal of essentially all greenhouse gas regulations.

Specifically, the administration is set to repeal the EPA's endangerment finding, basically the bedrock scientific determination that says greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to our public health and should therefore be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Trump is making a radical move that will send shockwaves across the economy-uncertainty for manufacturers, states, regulators everywhere. And it flies in the face, of course, of basic science.

Let's be very clear what this announcement represents: it is a corrupt giveaway to Big Oil, plain and simple.

When Big Oil calls a tune, the Republican senators dance. They're just in their pockets, as we've seen over and over again, with clean energy rollbacks and so much else. Big Oil has worked tirelessly for decades to undermine rules that protect against emissions, and now that they have their guy in the White House, they are taking their biggest swing yet.

Remember: in the spring of 2024, Donald Trump invited top oil executives to Mar-a-Lago and told them, if you raise me a billion dollars to get me elected, I will cut regulations so you can make more money. That devil's bargain is now coming true. I never thought it would be this way in America, in this bald disgusting way that so hurts people's health, but there it is.

Who will pay the price for Donald Trump's corruption? Quite literally every single community in this country.

The repeal will hurt kids with asthma.

The repeal will hurt homeowners and destabilize insurance markets, as extreme weather gets worse and worse.

The blast radius of this reckless decision will span from San Diego to Portland, Maine and from Seattle to Miami.

Never in American history have we had a president who promised to fight for everyday Americans so boldly only to betray so nakedly that promise in broad daylight time and time and time again. This is quite literally one of the biggest giveaways to Big Oil that you could come up with, and the economic and health consequences for everyone else will be severe.

Americans are tired of Donald Trump's limitless corruption. And they will bring a reckoning to all Republicans who stand with Doanld Trump when they go to the ballot box later this fall.

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