US EditionTrump revokes EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health
The Trump administration removed the legal basis for federal climate regulations, aiming to reduce regulatory costs by $1.3 trillion and delay vehicle emissions rules by two years.
- On Thursday, the EPA announced the repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding that underpins federal climate rules, announced at a press conference and not yet posted to the Federal Register.
- Adopted in 2009, the endangerment finding under President Barack Obama served as the legal basis for EPA actions under the Clean Air Act of 1963 to curb carbon dioxide, methane and four other heat-trapping pollutants.
- President Trump said the change will lower new-car prices and increase Americans' access to gasoline vehicles, while Jeff Holmstead observed that `revoking the endangerment finding will immediately eliminate all greenhouse gas standards for motor vehicles, but vehicle makers have very long planning cycles, and the revocation of the endangerment finding won't have much practical impact in the near term`.
- Legal experts warned that challenges are certain and could lead to broader undoing of climate regulations, with other states and environmental groups signaling they could sue.
- The administration claimed the repeal will save U.S. taxpayers 1.3 trillion, while scrapping standards could release more than 7 billion tons of emissions and shift Detroit Three automakers back to gas-powered vehicles.
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Trump administration completes rollback of Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations
Marathon Petroleum Company’s Salt Lake City Refinery in Salt Lake City on Wednesday, Jan. 3, 2024. (Photo by Spenser Heaps for Utah News Dispatch)WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump and his top environmental policy officer finalized a move Thursday to undo an Environmental Protection Agency regulation that laid the foundation for federal rules governing emissions of the greenhouse gases that cause climate change. At a White House event, Trump an…
Trump puts Obama’s greenhouse gas rule in the landfill * WorldNetDaily * by Bob Unruh
Source link U.S. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin Describing the “scientific finding” used as the reason for regulating greenhouse gases, adopted under Barack Obama’s administration, as “the Holy Grail of federal overreach,” President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Thursday confirmed the cancellation of that foundation for air quality regulation. A report from KHOU revealed
EPA Slashes Obama-Era Regulations
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the “single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history,” removing Obama-era policies affecting vehicle emissions. The action saves taxpayers more than $1.3 trillion. “Under the process just completed by the EPA [Environmental Protection Agency], we are officially terminating the so-called ‘endangerment finding,’ a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and…
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