Children Plead With U.S. Lawmakers to Protect EPA’s Endangerment Finding

School-age children carrying signs reading “less pollution, more solution” and “people over polluters” gathered on Wednesday inside the U.S. Capitol to oppose the Trump administration’s plan to roll back greenhouse gas regulations.

Congressional leaders and climate advocates joined the youth at the press conference, where they denounced the Environmental Protection Agency’s move to reconsider the landmark 2009 endangerment finding, the backbone of emissions regulation.

The backdrop of young faces underscored a point lawmakers and experts repeated throughout the event: that the debate is not just over statutory interpretation, science or judicial precedent. Repeal of the endangerment finding stands to fundamentally reshape the lives of young people, who will bear the brunt of climate chan