The Trump administration revoked a scientific finding that has been used to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change by the United States.
On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency rescinded a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
President Donald Trump called the move “the single largest deregulatory action in American history,” while EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin called the endangerment finding “the Holy Grail of federal regulatory overreach.”
Legal challenges are certain for an action that repeals 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, experts say.
Environmental groups described the move as the single biggest attack in U.S. history against federal authority to address climate change.
The EPA also said it will propose a two-year delay to a Biden-era rule restricting greenhouse gas emissions by cars and light trucks.
NOTUS Vice President Derrick Morgan joins LiveNOW’s Andy Mac to break it down.
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