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Revoking EPA’s endangerment finding – the keystone of US climate policies – won’t be simple and could have unintended consequences
Most of the United States’ major climate regulations are underpinned by one important document: It’s called the endangerment ...
EPA proposing to repeal climate ‘endangerment finding’ Tuesday
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will on Tuesday propose to repeal its landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases pose a threat to the public. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the ...
Report: Head of EPA visits Indianapolis to announce major environmental policy change
Zeldin will announce the repeal of what is known as the "endangerment finding," according to a report in E&E News, a publication of Politico. The EPA’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions ...
Trump’s EPA embraces climate denial as it works to upend regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is embracing a philosophy of climate change denial as it works to upend climate regulations and their legal underpinnings. EPA Administrator Lee ...
EPA Plans to Ditch Key Climate Policy, Washington Post Says
The US Environmental Protection Agency is considering scrapping a landmark almost two-decade old legal opinion that ...
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Environmental Advocates Rally Against Trump’s Plans to Undermine EPA’s Ability to Fight Climate Change
Environmental advocates, elected leaders and workers at the Environmental Protection Agency gathered at Federal Plaza ...
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Reversing the EPA’s Endangerment Finding on Greenhouse Gases
The EPA is reconsidering its 2009 “endangerment finding” that six “greenhouse gases” are causing or contributing to climate ...
America finds itself on lonely ground as one of the few countries against climate action
While Trump has infamously mocked climate change as “a great hoax,” the ICJ unanimously declared that international law ...
Zeldin to rescind Obama-era EPA finding on danger of greenhouse gas emissions
In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that greenhouse gases are classified as pollutants under the Clean Air Act, and in 2009, then-President Barack Obama issued an order allowing ...
EPA Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
The proposed rule rescinds a 2009 declaration known as the “endangerment finding,” which scientifically established that ...
EPA plans to scrap landmark climate policy
The Trump administration plans to withdraw a key scientific finding, which would strip the US government of its authority to ...
EPA poised to scrap landmark finding that will limit its battle against climate change
Under Zeldin, the EPA announced it would shutter its Office of Research and Development, which provides expertise for ...