EASTON, Pa. – Easton’s Mayor is among those speaking out against the Trump administration’s attempts to eliminate an Obama-era policy targeting greenhouse gas emissions, known as the endangerment finding.<\/p>\n
The White House says doing this would save Americans more than $1 trillion, but opponents say it would be destructive for the environment.<\/p>\n
Easton Mayor Sal Panto says he’s calling on the federal government to help fight climate change. He says it’s something the city has seen the impacts of locally from flooding to air pollution.<\/p>\n
The Mayor spoke a lot about truck pollution Wednesday. He says that development of more warehouses is something he is against because of trucks that come to the area as a result of them.<\/p>\n
One of the things Mayor Panto brought up were attempts by the Trump administration to eliminate the endangerment finding, an Obama-era policy that determines carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.<\/p>\n
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt says the Trump administration plans to formalize the rescission of it Thursday.<\/p>\n
“This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations,”\u00a0Leavitt said.<\/p>\n
“Climate change poses a unique and growing threat to lives, public health, and jobs in every city, every state, and around the world,” Panto said.<\/p>\n
Leavitt says the bulk of the savings will stem from the reduced cost for new vehicles. She says the rescission of the endangerment finding is a way to make life more affordable.<\/p>\n
She told the press during a briefing that it will drive larger economic growth.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – Easton’s Mayor is among those speaking out against the Trump administration’s attempts to eliminate an…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111291,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,805,1704],"class_list":["post-111290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-_homepage_top_stories","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news","tag-lehighvalley","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=111290"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111290\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}