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Do you know about the EPA’s ‘Endangerment Finding’? Here are five reasons to reverse it

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The Endangerment Finding is a policy enacted by the Environmental Protection Agency under former President Barack Obama that President Donald Trump is considering repealing.

The 2009 Finding regulates so-called greenhouse gas emissions.

It is the shaky foundation of policies like mandating the production of electric vehicles or closing coal-fired power plants before the U.S. has the infrastructure to replace them.

The EPA is considering carbon dioxide and fossil fuels pollution.

The Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund aims to spend $27 billion to facilitate financing and private capital for “greenhouse gas- and air pollution-reducing projects in communities across the country.

“That’s tremendous sums of money towards something that is not based in science,” said Rucker .

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