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Trump EPA proposes to ax landmark climate finding |
The Trump administration is proposing to repeal the landmark finding that climate change poses a threat to the public — as well as repealing all climate regulations on cars and trucks. |
Speaking in Indianapolis on Tuesday, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced that the agency is proposing to abandon the Obama-era finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases. The endangerment finding also underpins the nation's climate regulations, particularly those governing the automobile sector. The EPA's proposal would rescind climate regulations for cars and trucks, meaning automakers would no longer have to abide by any climate rules. The decision goes farther than even the first Trump administration. Trump 1.0 left the endangerment finding in place but dramatically weakened Obama-era regulations on cars. Zeldin described the move as "the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States." The 2009 endangerment finding proposed that emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases (GHG) threaten public health and welfare, and that vehicular emissions are a contributing factor. The Trump administration is now proposing to find instead that "there is insufficient reliable information to retain the conclusion that GHG emissions from new motor vehicles and engines in the United States cause or contribute to endangerment to public health and welfare in the form of global climate change." The impacts of Tuesday's proposal appear to be limited to its regulations on the auto industry and do not directly address the EPA's regulations on other emitting sectors, including power plants. However, in June, the Trump administration separately proposed to find that power plants' greenhouse gas emissions "do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution" and therefore should not be regulated. Read more at TheHill.com. |
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The persistent presence of humans and their infrastructure in U.S. national parks has yielded dramatic changes in the behaviors of large animals who live there, a new study has found. |
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The Trump administration will consider putting up further hurdles for the development of wind energy onshore and offshore, it announced late Tuesday afternoon. |
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The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is embracing a philosophy of climate change denial as it works to upend climate regulations and their legal underpinnings. |
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News we've flagged from other outlets touching on energy issues, the environment and other topics: |
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Upcoming news themes and events we're watching: |
- The Senate Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee is slated to vote on a series of nominations and bills, including whether to advance Neil Jacobs's nomination to lead NOAA.
- The Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee is slated to vote on Trump nominees for roles at DOI and DOE.
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Two key stories on The Hill right now: |
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The Senate on Tuesday confirmed Susan Monarez to lead the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), putting a longtime government scientist at the helm of an agency being upended by Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Read more |
| President Trump is suing Rupert Murdoch, Dow Jones — the Wall Street Journal's parent company — and two of the paper's reporters for $10 billion over the Journal's story about a lurid birthday card that Trump allegedly sent to the deceased sex offender Jeffrey Epstein in 2003. Read more |
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