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EPA reverses longstanding climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency is rescinding the legal finding about climate change that it has long relied on to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
The Trump Administration has repealed the landmark scientific finding that provides a legal basis for tackling climate change.
The Trump Environmental Protection Agency delivered a significant blow to longstanding US climate policy on Thursday, finalizing rules to revoke a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety.
The EPA just gutted its own ability to regulate climate pollution.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to repeal its endangerment finding, the legal framework that underpins its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin is reportedly expected to repeal the 2009 "endangerment finding" that underpins U.S. climate regulatory efforts.