Politico
The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed repealing the federal government’s bedrock scientific declaration on the dangers of greenhouse gases — a move that would run afoul of decades of research and topple most of the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate regulations.
The rollback is the most audacious attempt yet by President Donald Trump to undo federal restrictions on fossil fuels.
The so-called endangerment finding, which the Obama administration issued in 2009, laid out a comprehensive case for how human emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare. The finding serves as the legal basis for most of EPA’s climate rules, including limits on power plant and vehicle emissions — and undoing it, agency Administrator Lee Zeldin said in March, would eliminate “the holy grail of the climate change religion.”
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