"The groups have asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the EPA decision, which also eliminated requirements controlling greenhouse gas emissions in new cars and trucks. Urging a return to the status quo, the groups argued that the Trump administration is anti-science and illegally moving to benefit the fossil fuel industry, despite a mountain of evidence demonstrating the deadly consequences of unchecked pollution and climate change-induced floods, droughts, wildfires, and hurricanes."
"The science is overwhelmingly clear, the groups argued, despite the Trump EPA attempting to muddy the waters by forming a since-disbanded working group of climate contrarians. Trump is a longtime climate denier, as evidenced by a Euro News tracker monitoring his most controversial comments. Most recently, during a cold snap affecting much of the US, he predictably trolled environmentalists, writing on Truth Social, "could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain-WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING?""
The EPA repealed an endangerment finding that had underpinned federal climate regulations for 17 years and removed greenhouse-gas limits on new cars and trucks. More than a dozen environmental and health organizations filed suit in the US Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit seeking review and reinstatement of prior rules. Plaintiffs contend the repeal abandons public health protection, benefits the fossil fuel industry, and ignores extensive evidence of fatal harms from pollution and climate-driven floods, droughts, wildfires, and hurricanes. Plaintiffs also criticized the EPA for assembling a now-disbanded group of climate contrarians and noted President Trump's record of climate denial.
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