Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’

The Trump administration repealed the EPA's "endangerment finding," a 2009 determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare. This action removes the government's ability to regulate climate-heating pollution from vehicles, the largest source of such pollution in the U.S. Former EPA officials and climate advocates criticized the move, calling it a gift to the fossil fuel industry that undermines efforts to combat climate change. While the repeal initially focuses on vehicle emissions, experts anticipate the EPA will use similar arguments to dismantle regulations on stationary sources like power plants. The administration framed the repeal as a significant deregulatory action.

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