EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Announces Endangerment Findings • Earth.com

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson Announces Endangerment Findings

09-01-2016

Administrator Jackson announces that greenhouse gases threaten public health and the environment.

“The accumulation of CO2 and other greenhouse gases in the atmosphere can lead to hotter, longer heat waves that threaten the health of the sick, the poor, the elderly – that can increase ground-level ozone pollution linked to asthma and other respiratory illnesses.”

Science overwhelmingly shows greenhouse gas concentrations at unprecedented levels due to human activity.

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