“This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” EPA administrator Lee Zeldin was quoted as telling the Wall Street Journal, which first reported the planned timing.
(Feb 10): The US Environmental Protection Agency plans this week to repeal a policy that provides the legal foundation for a raft of rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions, marking US President Donald Trump’s most consequential retreat from the fight against climate change.
A move to scrap the Obama-era endangerment finding, a 2009 scientific determination that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare, is expected as early as Wednesday (Feb 11), according to a person familiar with the details. The policy underpins rules including federal emissions standards for cars and trucks.
