OLYMPIA, Wash. - A coalition of 22 states, including Washington, and nine local governments is opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) plan to rescind a key 2009 finding on greenhouse gas emissions.

Washington Attorney General Nick Brown said in a press release that the Trump administration's proposal aims to reverse the Endangerment Finding , which acknowledges the threat these emissions pose to public health and climate change.

“The federal government is putting Washingtonians’ lives at risk in its rush to gut climate protections,” Attorney General Nick Brown said. “At this urgent moment when we all need to work together to reduce greenhouse gases, the EPA is doing the opposite by appeasing the world’s biggest polluters.”

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