"The move was described as a gift to billionaire polluters at the expense of Americans' health. The endangerment finding, which states that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare, has since 2009 allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit heat-trapping pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources. Donald Trump called the move the single largest deregulatory action in American history."
"This EPA would rather spend its time in court working for the fossil fuel industry than protecting us from pollution and the escalating impacts of climate change, said Gina McCarthy, former EPA administrator, who now chairs America Is All In, a coalition of climate-concerned states and cities in the US. Former secretary of state, John Kerry, called the new rule un-American. Repealing the Endangerment Finding takes Orwellian governance to new heights"
The Trump administration rescinded the endangerment finding that declared greenhouse-gas buildup a danger to public health and welfare. That finding had enabled the Environmental Protection Agency since 2009 to limit heat-trapping emissions from vehicles, power plants and industrial sources. The final rule removes the government's ability to require tracking, reporting, and limiting of climate-heating pollution from cars and trucks, while not immediately altering stationary-source regulations under a different Clean Air Act section. Critics said the rollback favors the fossil fuel industry, increases health and property risks, and could pave the way to end other emissions standards.
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