EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced significant rollbacks of major environmental regulations, referring to the day as the "most consequential day of deregulation in American history." The changes aim to dismantle 31 key regulations affecting climate change, air pollution, and electric vehicles, which Zeldin claims will reduce costs for families and promote American manufacturing. Critics argue that these changes threaten established scientific findings about greenhouse gases and public health. Environmental experts express skepticism about the legal viability of reversing these foundational regulations, warning of potential challenges in court.
"We are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America's Golden Age," EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in an essay in The Wall Street Journal.
Zeldin said he and President Donald Trump support rewriting the agency's 2009 finding that planet-warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
Environmentalists and climate scientists call the endangerment finding a bedrock of U.S. law and say any attempt to undo it will have little chance of success.
In the face of overwhelming science, it's impossible to think that the EPA could develop a contradictory finding that would stand up in court," said David Doniger, a climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council.
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