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Emma Cheuse, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Earthjustice: “EPA has chosen not to control the pollution as much as possible to prevent people from getting cancer from ethylene oxide.”

Michael Freeman, Attorney, Rocky Mountain Office, Earthjustice: “BLM doesn’t have specific knowledge of forest lands. They’re not as intimately familiar with a national forest as the agency that’s responsible for managing that forest. It’s critical that at every stage, the Forest Service analyze the lands that are proposed for drilling.”

David Henkin, Attorney, Mid-Pacific Office, Earthjustice: “So far, we’re not expecting that much is going to come of this request. But if it does, we’re prepared to go to court. President Trump is without executive authority to open up monuments to fishing, and can’t dismantle them in a piecemeal fashion.”

Adrian Martinez, Attorney, California Regional Office, Earthjustice: “There’s ways they can address the impacts, but it needs to be a smaller project and there needs to be real requirements to clean up a significant amount of pollution. Even a project half or a quarter of the size would still be one of the largest in the nation.”

Neil Gormley, Attorney, Washington, D.C., Earthjustice: “[The emails show] that even OMB agreed with public health and environmental groups and EPA’s independent science advisers that EPA should have grappled with new information showing that the benefits of MATS are much greater than EPA estimated and the costs much lower.”