congressional_record: CREC-2018-04-17-pt1-PgH3382

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CREC-2018-04-17-pt1-PgH3382 2018-04-17 115 2     TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WEAKENS CLEAN AIR PROTECTIONS HOUSE HOUSE ALLOTHER H3382 H3382 [{"name": "A. Donald McEachin", "role": "speaking"}]   164 Cong. Rec. H3382 Congressional Record, Volume 164 Issue 62 (Tuesday, April 17, 2018) [Congressional Record Volume 164, Number 62 (Tuesday, April 17, 2018)] [House] [Page H3382] From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov] TRUMP ADMINISTRATION WEAKENS CLEAN AIR PROTECTIONS (Mr. McEACHIN asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute.) Mr. McEACHIN. Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned by the administration's continued assault on essential regulations that protect our health and our environment. All Americans need, deserve, and have a right to breathe clean air. Historically, we have upheld that right to reasonable, science-based limits on pollution, but that tradition is under assault. Last week, the administration directed the EPA to weaken the standards for ambient air pollution. By allowing for emissions trading, this directive will magnify existing environmental injustices, enabling increased pollution in communities that already live with dangerously high concentrations. The order also softens public health mandates under the Clean Air Act. It restricts what kind of scientific data regulators can use, and it increases their workloads without providing new resources. Mr. Speaker, if we ignore the best available science or if we starve agencies of the resources they need to actually uphold commonsense limits, then we are not protecting the American people. Last week's directive was dangerous and a needless mistake. Like the rest of this administration's dirty energy agenda, it needs to be reversed. ____________________

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