WASHINGTON, Feb. 12 -- Sen. Michael Bennet issued the following press release:
Colorado U.S. Senator Michael Bennet released the following statement on the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) rescission of the 2009 "Endangerment Finding," the scientific determination that established that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, and underpins the federal government's authority to limit those emissions.
"By abandoning the Endangerment Finding, the EPA is abdicating its duty to protect Americans' health and outright ignoring decades of research, clear directives from the Supreme Court and Congress, and the reality that Coloradans and Westerners face every day with increasingly devastating wildfires, floods, and extreme drought dr...