President Trump and Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin are set to announce plans Thursday to repeal the landmark 2009 legal finding that climate change poses a threat to the public. The move marks a significant escalation in the administration’s fight against green policies and its efforts to deny climate change. The legal finding, known as the endangerment finding, underpins the nation’s climate rules. It also comes a day after Trump directed the Pentagon to purchase more power from coal plants in a boost for the declining fossil fuel. The event is scheduled to begin at 1:30 p.m. EST.
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President Trump is trying to pull the rug out from under federal climate regulation. But the U.S. economy may no longer be standing on it. Why it matters: The energy transition is well underway and is unlikely to be reversed by Thursday's historic move. The big picture: America's emissions are projected to decline substantially even if major climate regulations are repealed, driven by falling renewable energy prices and cleaner natural gas outcompeting dirtier coal. Driving the news: The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday is expected to overturn the 2009 "endangerment finding," which determined that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare. - The finding sets the foundation for federal regulation of climate pollution…
The Environmental Protection Agency is eliminating a Clean Air Act finding from 2009 that is the basis for much of the federal government's actions to rein in climate change.
The Trump administration will likely repeal the so-called "endangerment finding," which has been the basis for a host of climate policies coming out of the EPA. Climate groups will surely attack the final rule in court. Legal experts say the administration needs to strategize if it's going to withstand the litigation.
Dairy farmer Fred Stone knew every cow in his herd — naming them “Moonbeam” and “Storm Chaser.” When his farm was discovered to be contaminated with forever chemicals, he was forced to euthanize nearly 80% of his cows, dump thousands of gallons of milk, and take on $1.5 million in debt in a desperate effort to save the farm his grandfather built. As we expose in this new “Truth of the Matter” podcast episode with @natashazouves, Stone’s story is not an outlier — it’s a warning. The Environmental Working Group estimates nearly 70 million acres of U.S. cropland may be contaminated with forever chemicals, also known as PFAS. In the full episode, Scott Faber with the Environmental Working Group outlines what you can do to…
