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Whitehouse challenges EPA on cost math and health valuation as agency rolls back standards
Summary
Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse accused the EPA of elevating fossil-fuel interests and understating health costs, pressing Administrator Zeldin on rollbacks to the endangerment finding, mercury rule repeal and vehicle standards during the Senate EPW hearing.
Ranking Member Sheldon Whitehouse told the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on May 13 that recent EPA rollbacks amount to an "attack" on science and will raise costs for consumers while benefitting fossil-fuel interests.
"Climate change is moving from the science department to the economics department," Whitehouse said, arguing that insurance markets and property values already show cascading economic harms from unchecked climate risk. He repeatedly…
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