You Can’t Make America Healthy by Letting Polluters Off the Hook

We aren’t the only ones concerned. Recent polling finds broad support for strong methane protections in five major oil and gas-producing states. Across California, Colorado, New Mexico, Pennsylvania, and Texas, 72% support their state adopting stringent rules to reduce methane emissions from the oil and gas industry, including regular inspections of low-producing wells.

The Trump-Zeldin Environmental Protection Agency may want to ignore the moment of climate urgency we’re living in, but we cannot. Like caregivers around the country and around the world, we’re trying to figure out how to raise our children in uncharted climate terrain. We cannot see how the administration’s attempts to eviscerate federal climate protections—including rolling back methane and power plant pollution safeguards—are in any way aligned with its public messaging on making American families healthy again and saving money for U.S. families and consumers.