{"id":77418,"date":"2017-02-01T19:56:33","date_gmt":"2017-02-02T00:56:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77418"},"modified":"2017-01-31T19:59:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-01T00:59:07","slug":"schneiderman-issues-statement-on-trump-epa-grant-contract-freeze","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/?p=77418","title":{"rendered":"Schneiderman issues statement on Trump EPA grant, contract freeze"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman\"<\/a>“President Trump’s ordered freeze of EPA funding of clean air, water, and hazardous waste programs is a disturbing opening act by an administration that seems determined to dismantle essential federal environmental protections, regardless of the impact on the health and safety of ordinary Americans.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cThis order\u2014 shaped by the oil and gas industry’s handpicked environmental czar\u2014threatens to choke off critical funding that states like New York depend upon to ensure safe drinking water and clean air.<\/i><\/p>\n

\u201cI will not stand idly by while the new administration threatens to undercut crucial environmental regulations that protect New Yorkers, which is why my office will examine all legal options to ensure the EPA meets its obligations to keep our state\u2019s air and water safe.\u201d<\/i><\/p>\n

A.G. Schneiderman has made clear that he stands ready to use the full power of his office to compel enforcement of our nation\u2019s environmental laws. In January, he joined eight other A.G.’s in sending a letter urging members of the U.S. Senate Environmental and Public Workers Committee to reject the nomination of Oklahoma A.G. Scott Pruitt<\/a> to lead the EPA. In December, Schneiderman led a coalition of 19 states and localities calling on President-elect Trump tocontinue the federal government\u2019s defense of the Clean Power Plan<\/a> and reject the \u201cmisguided\u201d advice to discard the plan.<\/p>\n

A.G. Schneiderman has initiated litigation along with states across the country to defend critical environmental and clean energy policies, including the Clean Power Plan, the \u201cWaters of the U.S.\u201d rule, and EPA regulations to reduce emissions of methane in the oil and gas industry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“President Trump’s ordered freeze of EPA funding of clean air, water, and hazardous waste programs is a disturbing opening act by an administration that seems determined to dismantle essential federal environmental protections, regardless of the impact on the health and safety of ordinary Americans. \u201cThis order\u2014 shaped by the oil and gas industry’s handpicked environmental […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70131,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[23810,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-77418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wellbeing","category-top-story"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p43meu-k8G","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/madisoncountycourier.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/Attorny_General_Eric_T_Schneiderman.jpg?fit=260%2C221&ssl=1","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70131"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/madisoncountycourier.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}