EPA to Repeal Its Own Conclusion that Greenhouse Gases Warm the Planet, Threaten Health

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday plans to repeal the legal framework that underpins its power to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

"President Trump will be joined by Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding," said White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt in a press briefing Tuesday. "This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations."

Known as the endangerment finding, the EPA’s 2009 decision notes that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane are heating the Earth and that warming threatens public health and welfare. It, therefore, functions, under the Clean Air Act, as the lynch-pin for rules that set emissions standards for cars and trucks and require fossil fuel companies to report their emissions, among others.

Please select this link to read the complete article from NBC News.