"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 known as the endangerment finding that determined that 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 an action that repeals all greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks, and could unleash a broader undoing of climate regulations on stationary sources such as power plants and oil and gas facilities, experts say."
The Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule rescinding the 2009 endangerment finding that determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The endangerment finding served as the legal basis under the Clean Air Act for nearly all U.S. greenhouse gas regulations covering motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources. The repeal removes greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks and could enable broader rollbacks affecting stationary sources such as power plants and oil and gas facilities. The EPA also proposed a two-year delay to a Biden-era vehicle emissions rule. Legal challenges and strong opposition from environmental groups are expected.
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