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No longer will the costs to human health matter when it comes to pollution controls- This week, the Environmental Protection Agency announced an end to what has become known as the endangerment finding. In 2007, the US Supreme Court ruled that greenhouse gases are pollutants that endanger health and therefore, the EPA can and should be regulating them. But Lee Zeldin, head of the EPA, is changing that. He wants the agency to calculate only the costs to business, not to public health. Some critics speculate his changes are based on weak scientific evidence and will never pass a challenge in court. Dominique Browning is the co-founder and director of Moms Clean Air Force. Her Turn reporter Arlene Zaucha talked with her recently and asked, first of all, what is the endangerment finding. If you want to find out more, you can contact Jayne Black, the Wisconsin field organizer at the Moms Clean Air Force website. There are over 17 thousand members in the Wisconsin chapter. Image Courtesy of Moms Clean Air Force