US EditionTwo dozen states, 10 cities sue EPA over repeal of ‘endangerment’ finding central to climate fight
The lawsuit argues the EPA's repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding removes key emissions standards and violates the Clean Air Act, with 24 states and multiple cities joining the challenge.
- On Thursday, two dozen states, 10 cities and five counties filed suit in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit challenging the Environmental Protection Agency’s February repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding.
- The 2009 Endangerment Finding determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, growing from the 2007 Supreme Court decision Massachusetts v. EPA under the Clean Air Act.
- Led by the attorneys general of California, Connecticut, Massachusetts and New York, the suit includes 19 other states, Washington, D.C., Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, cities like Boston and Los Angeles, plus five counties.
- The repeal eliminates all greenhouse-gas emissions standards for cars and trucks and experts warn it could enable broader rollbacks for power plants and oil and gas facilities.
- Courts have repeatedly upheld the Endangerment Finding, including a 2023 D.C. Circuit decision, and the case may produce a years-long saga potentially reaching the more conservative U.S. Supreme Court.
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EPA sued over repeal of ‘endangerment’ finding central to climate fight
The repeal eliminates all greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks and could unleash a broader undoing of climate regulations on stationary sources such as power plants and oil and gas facilities.
Coalition of attorneys general lodges new challenge to EPA decision on greenhouse gas regulation
Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Campbell joined her counterparts in 23 other states to petition a court to review the EPA's move to eliminate the so-called Endangerment Finding, which had concluded that greenhouse gases pose an urgent risk to public health and should be regulated.
CT helps lead legal challenge to repeal of endangerment finding
Five weeks after the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, revoked its own rule for regulating greenhouse gas emissions, states are pushing back in court with Connecticut helping to lead the charge. A coalition of two dozen states and a dozen cities and counties on Thursday filed suit against the EPA and its administrator Lee Zeldin contending that rescinding the so-called endangerment finding is unlawful. “The Trump EPA has ignored the law and …
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Two dozen states, 10 cities sue EPA over repeal of 'endangerment' finding central to climate fight
Two dozen states, along with more than a dozen cities and counties, sued the Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday, challenging the Trump administration’s repeal of a scientific finding that had been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate chang
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