"On Thursday, President Trump will be joined by [Environmental Protection Agency] Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding," Leavitt said during a White House press briefing.
"This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history," she added.
The move will be 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 could also include the repeal of federal regulations on planet-warming emissions from cars and trucks.
Leavitt said the administration's moves are likely to save Americans money on the cost of new vehicles.
"This is just one more way this administration is working to make life more affordable for everyday Americans," she said.
When it proposed to repeal the finding last year, the EPA also proposed to repeal all climate regulations for the nation's cars and trucks — a massive regulatory rollback in and of itself, as transportation is the largest source of U.S. emissions.
Reached for comment, an agency spokesperson noted that without the endangerment finding, the EPA "would lack statutory authority under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to prescribe standards for certain motor vehicle emissions."
The spokesperson described the endangerment finding as "one of the most damaging decisions in modern history."
Leavitt, in her remarks, said the administration would separately hold an event Wednesday "to tout clean, beautiful coal."
Read at TheHill.com.
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