STATEMENT: CTLCV Condemns Federal Rollback on Climate Regulations

The Trump administration officially announced its repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding,” the bedrock scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. This shortsighted retrenchment is a direct attack on public health, our economy, our communities, our planet, and our future.
This unprecedented move seeks to deny what we already know: greenhouse gas emissions are harming public health, destabilizing our planet, and costing U.S. taxpayers billions of dollars. The endangerment finding, established in 2009 based on overwhelming scientific evidence, is the legal foundation that allows the EPA to regulate climate pollution from power plants, cars, and other sources under the Clean Air Act.

Here’s what we’re doing:
CTLCV is committed to ensuring Connecticut does its part to curb pollution. We are working to implement CT’s Global Warming Solutions Act, which requires our state to lower climate-damaging emissions while creating jobs and improving community resilience. Curbing use of fossil fuels will lower energy bills today and into the future, and will result in greater energy independence.
Through our partnerships across the state as part of the CT Coalition for Climate Action, we remain committed to ensuring that Connecticut meets its emission reduction mandates regardless of federal rollbacks.

We continue to champion energy efficiency, the most cost-effective strategy to minimize waste, save money, and reduce greenhouse gas pollution. Efficiency creates in-state jobs while helping families lower their energy bills.
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We’re fighting to expand access to clean, renewable energy – now the lowest cost power on the planet – as well as weatherization programs that make Connecticut homes more affordable and comfortable while reducing our reliance on the fossil fuels responsible for climate change.
We look forward to working with our state lawmakers and the Lamont Administration to double down – not rollback – climate action efforts. This work is more important than ever.