EPA moves to repeal landmark finding that allows climate regulation

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Source: ABC News/AP

July 29, 2025, 10:53 AM


WASHINGTON -- President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday proposed revoking a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change. The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

The “endangerment finding” is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources that are heating the planet.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called for a rewrite of the endangerment finding in March as part of a series of environmental rollbacks announced at the same time in what Zeldin said was "the greatest day of deregulation in American history.'' A total of 31 key environmental rules on topics from clean air to clean water and climate change would be rolled back or repealed under Zeldin's plan.

He singled out the endangerment finding as “the Holy Grail of the climate change religion” and said he was thrilled to end it “as the EPA does its part to usher in the Golden Age of American success.''

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[walkingman]

1. The Conservative idea of quality of life is all based on $$$. Well, you can't eat $$$ or drink $$$

and the world we leave our children will be horrible, but I guess this is what America calls the "Golden Age".

What a fucked up way of looking at life.

[dem4decades]

2. The Trump Administration has also signed an executive order requiring

Thermometers go no higher than 90 degrees. And there will be no more monitoring of noxious gases or polluted water.

Problems fixed.

[Karasu]

3. ...And these people want more CHILDREN? You just condemned yourselves to oblivion in the name of pushing

conspiracy theories. Just so they can feel like they're "right" (when everyone who knows anything about fucking anything knows otherwise) for slightly longer.

A country that allows this deserves no respect.

[LetMyPeopleVote]

4. EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act

The agency announced a proposal to rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.

EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/29/epa-endangerment-finding-clean-air-act/

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced a proposal to rescind the landmark legal opinion that underpins virtually all of its regulations to curb climate change.

The move would end EPA regulations on greenhouse gases emitted by cars, while also undercutting rules that limit power plant emissions and control the release of methane by oil and gas companies.

“If finalized, today’s announcement would amount to the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States, ” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday at a truck dealership in Indianapolis.....

The 2009 “endangerment finding” concluded that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare, establishing a legal basis to regulate them as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The EPA’s new proposal strikes at this foundation and argues the Clean Air Act does not give the agency the authority to regulate greenhouse emissions.....

The endangerment finding has been at the center of the political fight over climate change for more than 15 years. In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that the agency had the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. The EPA issued the endangerment finding two years later, and then established carbon limits for vehicles and power plants.

Experts say that going after the endangerment finding is a risky legal move. But if the administration is successful, it would eliminate the key hurdle to implementing Trump’s energy agenda.

“They think this is a holy grail to get rid of the whole thing in one fell swoop as opposed to having to weaken regulations one by one,” said Richard Revesz, law professor at New York University and former administrator of the White House Office of Information Regulatory Affairs. “It’s like betting on this big thing, but if you lose, you end up empty-handed.”

[New Breed Leader]

5. From page 425 of Project 2025...

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