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EPA set to strike down legal foundation that underpins all major climate regulations - reports
The Environmental Protection Agency is just days away from proposing the U.S. reverse the scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health, overturning the legal foundation that has been the cornerstone of all policies aimed at limiting emissions and tackling climate change,
Known as the “endangerment finding,” the 2009 declaration has served as the basis for federal rules limiting greenhouse gas pollution from power plants, cars and trucks, and the oil and gas industry.
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EPA considering rollback of key climate change tools that regulate greenhouse gas emissions: report
The Environmental Protection Agency is reportedly considering a major rollback of one of its cornerstone climate change findings - one that has allowed the federal government to limit pollution from greenhouse gases for more than 15 years.
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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 obliges “the protection of the climate system."
The agency’s plan to disavow its finding that greenhouse-gas emissions endanger human well-being is dispiriting, but there are workarounds.
The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.
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🌡️ The rule that saved us—now under attack: EPA draft sparks climate emergency fears
In a surprising move, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has prepared a plan that could remove its own power to fight climate change. This plan focuses on getting rid of an important rule from 2009 called the “endangerment finding.