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Facts are facts.

In the middle of a brutal, deadly heat wave that has held most of the middle, south and east coast of our country in its grip for more than a week, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, “speaking (yesterday) at a truck dealership in Indianapolis, said the E.P.A. planned to rescind the 2009 declaration, known as the endangerment finding, which concluded that planet-warming greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health.”

‘The proposal would, if finalized, amount to the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States,’ Mr. Zeldin said. He said the proposal would also erase limits on greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks on the nation’s roads.

“Without the endangerment finding, the E.P.A. would be left with no authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate the greenhouse gas emissions that are accumulating in the atmosphere from the burning of fossil fuels.

“The proposal is President Trump’s most consequential step yet to derail federal climate efforts. It marks a notable shift in the administration’s position from one that had downplayed the threat of global warming to one that essentially flatly denies the overwhelming scientific evidence of climate change.” (The New York Times gift article)