EPA revokes scientific finding on climate change

Court action pledged as landmark EPA finding is rolled back

BOSTON — In what the White House called “the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” the Trump administration on Thursday rescinded the 2009 policy that underpins essentially all federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.

EPA revokes scientific finding on climate change

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Climate finding pulled away

WASHINGTON — 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 Republican president to roll…

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise

Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise   By Jonathan Levy, Boston University; Howard Frumkin, University of Washington; Jonathan Patz, University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Vijay Limaye, University of Wisconsin-Madison   The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America’s climate policies on Feb. 12, […] Source

Ulster County officials disapprove of EPA change to reduce energy regulations

Ulster County officials condemned the Trump administration’s move this week to revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” which is the legal basis for most federal limits on greenhouse-gas pollution. The Feb. 12 repeal is expected to cancel or delay key climate rules affecting vehicles, power plants, and other major emitters. Legal challenges are widely expected. Ulster County Executive Jen Metzger has made climate…