"The Trump administration has dismantled the basis for all US climate regulations, in its most confrontational anti-environment move yet. The 2009 endangerment finding determined that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare and should therefore be controlled by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). By revoking it on Thursday, officials eliminated the legal foundation enabling the government to control planet-heating pollution."
"The repeal is part of Trump's sweeping assault on climate policy. On Thursday, he said the endangerment finding formed the basis for the green new scam. Since returning to office last January, Trump's administration has moved aggressively to dismantle pollution rules and boost fossil fuels. That anti-environmental agenda, critics say, serves his fossil-fuel donors. These modern-day robber barons would gladly add to their already obscene piles of wealth by making us less safe from climate change, said Manuel Salgado, federal research manager at the nonprofit We Act for Environmental Justice."
The 2009 endangerment finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare was revoked, eliminating the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation. Administration officials framed the rollback as a major deregulatory victory and an end to federal regulatory overreach. EPA leadership claimed the prior finding and related rules overreached, while the president dismissed public-health concerns and labeled the finding a scam. The repeal drew widespread condemnation from climate experts and environmental, public health, and economic justice advocates. Critics contend the anti-environment agenda advances fossil-fuel donor interests and weakens protections against climate harms.
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