"By MATTHEW DALY WASHINGTON (AP) - The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the most aggressive move by the president to roll back climate regulations. The rule finalized by the Environmental Protection Agency rescinds a 2009 government declaration, issued by the Obama administration, known as the endangerment finding that determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare."
"President Donald Trump called the move "the single largest deregulatory action in American history," while EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called the endangerment finding "the Holy Grail of federal regulatory overreach." Legal challenges are certain for the action, which repeals all greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks, and could unleash a broader undoing of climate regulations on power plants, factories, and oil and gas facilities, experts say."
""Donald Trump may put corporate greed ahead of communities and families," Newsom said. "But California will not stand by. We will sue to challenge this illegal action, and we will continue fighting climate pollution here in our state. We will continue to lead because the lives and livelihoods of our people depend on it." The decision does not affect numerous state laws in California that go farther than many federal rules to curb greenhouse gas emissions. California state laws require 100% of the state's electricity to come from renewable or carbon-free sources like solar, wind, geothermal, hydro and nuclear by 2045."
The Environmental Protection Agency revoked the 2009 endangerment finding that had underpinned U.S. regulation of greenhouse gas emissions. That finding served as the legal basis for nearly all climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for vehicles, power plants, and other pollution sources. The repeal withdraws greenhouse-gas standards for cars and trucks and could enable rollbacks of regulations on power plants, factories, and oil and gas facilities. President Trump characterized the move as a major deregulatory action, and EPA leadership criticized the finding as regulatory overreach. Legal challenges are expected and California has vowed to sue while maintaining ambitious state clean-energy laws.
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