"More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations. Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA's rollback of the endangerment finding, which states that the buildup of heat-trapping pollution in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources since 2009."
"The suit was brought by the American Public Health Association, American Lung Association, the Center for Biological Diversity, the Environmental Defense Fund, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club and 11 other public health and environmental organizations. The lawsuit was filed by green legal organizations Clean Air Task Force and Earthjustice and it names the EPA and the agency's administrator, Lee Zeldin, as defendants."
More than a dozen health and environmental justice nonprofits sued the Environmental Protection Agency in the DC Circuit Court over the agency's revocation of the endangerment finding that underpins federal climate regulations. The endangerment finding states that buildup of heat‑trapping pollution endangers public health and welfare and enabled emission limits for vehicles, power plants, and other industrial sources since 2009. Plaintiffs include major public health and environmental organizations; the suit was filed by Clean Air Task Force and Earthjustice and names the EPA and Administrator Lee Zeldin as defendants. Critics say the rollback undermines Clean Air Act obligations and contradicts the best available science. President Trump hailed the repeal as a major deregulatory action.
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