EASTON, Pa. – Easton Mayor Sal Panto said the city has seen the impact of climate change.<\/p>\n
“Climate change, people see it; intense storms, flooding. We’re on two rivers and we in 2004, 2005, and 2006, we had tremendous floods. We lost a lot of property,” said Mayor Panto.<\/p>\n
Rollbacks of truck pollution standards and the possible elimination of Endangerment Finding are two of the things he and other speakers at a news conference said they are concerned about.<\/p>\n
Endangerment Finding is an Obama-era policy that determines carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration plans to formalize the recission of it on 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,” said White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt.<\/p>\n
Alliance of Nurses for a Healthy Environment registered nurse Mary Ellen O’Connell said the Lehigh Valley already sees a lot of health issues stemming from pollution.<\/p>\n
“Healthcare providers, hospitals, emergency departments, we’re deeply concerned about the rates of asthma and cardiovascular disease in our community,” said O’Connell.<\/p>\n
The Trump administration said getting rid of Endangerment Finding is a way of making life more affordable.<\/p>\n
The White House said it will drive economic growth.<\/p>\n
“The bulk of the savings will stem from reduced cost for new vehicles with the EPA projecting average per vehicle savings of more than $2,400,” said Leavitt<\/p>\n
Mayor Panto said truck pollution is a reason he is against more warehouses.<\/p>\n
He and other speakers are urging the use of electric vehicles, but they said it is still going to take the federal government to work with them.<\/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,” said Panto.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"EASTON, Pa. – Easton Mayor Sal Panto said the city has seen the impact of climate change. “Climate…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":111671,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[214,153,155,154,805,1704],"class_list":{"0":"post-111670","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-bethlehem","8":"tag-_homepage_top_stories","9":"tag-bethlehem","10":"tag-bethlehem-headlines","11":"tag-bethlehem-news","12":"tag-lehighvalley","13":"tag-traffic"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111670","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=111670"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/111670\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111671"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=111670"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=111670"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=111670"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}