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Stand With Young People Fighting Trump’s Climate Rollbacks
Young Americans are taking Trump to court to protect their future — and Congress must back them up.
Trump’s EPA is trying to dismantle the scientific foundation of America’s climate protections, including rules that limit dangerous pollution from cars and trucks. If he succeeds, kids will inherit dirtier air, deadlier heat, stronger storms, and a more dangerous planet.
The young people suing Trump are doing their part. Now Congress must do its part too. Lawmakers can investigate Trump’s EPA, block attacks on vehicle pollution standards, defend EPA’s authority to regulate climate pollution, and pass stronger protections before the damage gets worse.
If Congress fails to act, our children and grandchildren will face more pollution, more asthma attacks, flooded homes, burned neighborhoods, unsafe summers, and a future made more dangerous for the people who will live in it the longest.
Children do not get to vote on whether polluters can dump more carbon into the air. They do not get a say when politicians pretend climate change is not already hurting families. But Congress has a responsibility to protect them anyway.
That is why this lawsuit matters. Young people are standing up because adults in power are failing them — and Congress has no excuse to stand by.
Lawmakers can hold hearings, expose industry influence, use funding power to block rollbacks, protect EPA authority, and make clear that clean-air protections are not optional.
The choice is simple: Congress can back the next generation fighting for clean air and a livable future, or it can let polluters win.
Thanks for all that you do,
Matt from the Swarm
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