Rep. Mike Levin’s Statement on Pres. Trump Overturning Clean Air Standards
Washington, D.C.—Today, Rep. Mike Levin (CA-49) released the following statement after President Trump signed resolutions to overturn California’s clean air standards:
“Southern California used to have nonstop smog alerts. I grew up in the 1980s, when air pollution would often make the mountains in the distance vanish behind a brown haze. That changed because leaders from both parties—Republicans like Reagan and Schwarzenegger, Democrats like Brown and Newsom—stepped up and said: clean air shouldn’t be negotiable.
“Now Donald Trump wants to take away California’s right to set our own clean air standards and undo decades of bipartisan progress.
“We’re not going back. Not to the smog. Not to the asthma. And not to a future where polluters get to call the shots.”
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