PPT Statement on Endangerment Finding Announcement

PPT Director Michael Chamberlain commented on the Environmental Protection Agency’s plans to roll back the 2009 endangerment finding:

“The endangerment finding represents the epitome of government overreach – giving the feds carte blanche to regulate every item and activity in Americans’ daily lives. Rolling it back is also crucial to restoring scientific integrity to the government. According to emails at the time it was implemented, in the early days of the Obama administration, EPA officials appeared to be already planning to implement their power-grab before all the data had been collected and interpreted. The scientific process starts with a hypothesis, not with a scheme to expand one’s bureaucratic fiefdom. If the finding was compromised, every action from the EPA and other government agencies that was based on it is also compromised.”

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