US EditionAP: Scientific Studies Calculate Climate Change as Health Danger, While Trump Calls It a 'Scam'
The EPA's repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding removes key legal grounds for climate regulations, risking millions of lives amid over 29,000 health studies linking greenhouse gases to harm.
- On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule rescinding the 2009 endangerment finding, with President Donald Trump calling it `This determination had no basis in fact, had none whatsoever, and no basis in law`.
- Following a Trump executive order, EPA records show the agency planned in July to reverse the finding, with the administration claiming about $2,400 per car savings and more than $1 trillion in regulatory relief.
- Research shows more than 29,000 peer-reviewed studies, including over 5,000 on the United States and over 60% recent, link warming to more than 9,700 global deaths and rising U.S. heat deaths.
- EPA's repeal also ended vehicle greenhouse-gas rules, and experts warn it could erase pollution limits for cars and light trucks, power plants and factories, prompting legal challenges in U.S. courts.
- Critics noted the administration relied on a disbanded Energy Department working group whose report researchers panned for errors, while the fossil fuel industry and conservative activist Myron Ebell welcomed the rollback.
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Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a 'scam'
The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam.”
US President Donald Trump has overturned one of the most important targets for climate protection in the United States. On Thursday, he declared the so-called 2009 risk assessment invalid, which means that greenhouse gases are harmful to health. This also eliminates pollution limits for the car industry. A sharp criticism came from Greenpeace and Trump's former predecessor, Barack Obama, of the Democrats. Trump attested the "greatest deregulatio…
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