EPA plans to drive ‘a dagger into the heart of the climate change’ regulations
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday he’s issuing draft plans to overturn the agency’s 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare — a move guaranteed to spark litigation.
Why it matters: It’s President Trump’s most direct effort to rip out climate regulations root and branch — and make it harder for a successor to impose new ones.
- The “endangerment finding” provides a key legal underpinning for regulating heat-trapping gases from cars, power plants and more under the Clean Air Act.
Driving the news: “This has been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” Zeldin said on Ruthless, the popular conservative podcast where he announced the plan. [Continue reading…]