Trump administration moves to revoke EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health

"Trump has said he believes climate change is a hoax, and has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement, leaving the world's largest historic contributor to global warming out of international efforts to combat it. The so-called endangerment finding was first adopted by the United States in 2009, and led the EPA to take action under the Clean Air Act of 1963 to curb emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and four other heat-trapping air pollutants from vehicles, power plants and other industries."

"Its repeal would remove the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify, and comply with federal greenhouse gas emission standards for cars, but may not initially apply to stationary sources such as power plants, officials told the Wall Street Journal earlier this week. Reuters was unable to confirm those details. The transportation and power sectors are each responsible for around a quarter of US greenhouse gas output, according to EPA figures."

The administration repealed the EPA endangerment finding, representing the most sweeping climate-policy rollback to date after regulatory cuts aimed at promoting fossil fuel development and hindering clean energy rollout. The president has called climate change a hoax and withdrew the United States from the Paris Agreement, excluding the largest historic emitter from international climate efforts. The endangerment finding, adopted in 2009, had enabled EPA regulation of carbon dioxide, methane and other heat-trapping pollutants from vehicles, power plants and industries. The repeal would remove federal measurement, reporting and compliance requirements for vehicle greenhouse gas standards and could create legal and regulatory uncertainty.

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