"On Thursday, the Trump administration will rescind the central scientific finding that underpins much of the nation's climate pollution rules, its most aggressive action yet to halt initiatives that address planetary warming. The 2009 Environmental Protection Agency endangerment finding was a determination that pollutants from developing and burning fossil fuels, such as methane and carbon dioxide, can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The EPA now argues that the Clean Air Act does not give it the legal authority to regulate greenhouse gases."
""This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history," White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said at a Tuesday briefing. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is expected to join President Trump at the White House to formalize the decision on Thursday, Leavitt said. The endangerment finding stemmed from a section of the Clean Air Act focused on regulating vehicle emissions. So, the EPA is expected to also end rules to reduce climate pollution from cars and trucks."
The Trump administration will revoke the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 endangerment finding, which established that emissions from burning fossil fuels like methane and carbon dioxide can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. The EPA now contends that the Clean Air Act does not grant authority to regulate greenhouse gases. The action is framed by the White House as a major deregulatory move and is expected to include ending vehicle emissions rules, affecting the largest U.S. source of direct greenhouse gases: transportation. Environmental groups pledge legal challenges, and the decision arrives amid record heat, floods, and climate-driven wildfires.
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