"In what the White House has described as the "largest deregulatory action in American history," President Donald Trump has undone a key scientific finding that has been the cornerstone of US efforts to fight climate change for more than 16 years. Speaking at the White House on Thursday, the president officially rescinded a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding. It has served as a key part of the green policies later introduced by former Democratic presidents Barack Obama and Joe Biden."
"The landmark scientific finding, issued by the Environmental Protection Agency in December 2009, was the legal framework that allowed the EPA to regulate planet-warming emissions seen as a threat to "public health and welfare of current and future generations." A previous ruling by the Supreme Court gave the agency the authority to enact policies that targeted heat-trapping emissions carbon dioxide, methane and other pollutants. The policies first targeted car and truck exhaust, and later expanded to include emissions from coal and gas-fired power plants."
President Donald Trump rescinded the EPA's 2009 endangerment finding, removing a legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. The 2009 finding had allowed the EPA, following a Supreme Court ruling, to treat carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping pollutants as threats to public health and welfare and regulate emissions from vehicles, power plants and the oil and gas industry. The Trump administration questioned the finding's scientific basis and argued U.S. regulation cannot resolve a global problem and burdened businesses. Scientists and organizations like the American Geophysical Union defended the finding as grounded in decades of peer-reviewed climate science.
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