Bloomberg News: Trump’s EPA to scrap regulating CO2 as a pollutant – ‘Sweeping attack on federal climate regulations’ – Morano: ‘This is the holy grail of the climate agenda’
“This is the holy grail of the climate agenda,” said Marc Morano, who runs the climate-skeptic website ClimateDepot.com. “If you want to permanently cripple the United States climate agenda you have to go at the heart of it. This is the heart of it: the endangerment finding.”
Netherlands significantly cuts development aid, ‘threatening projects for gender equality & climate action’ under the ‘Netherlands-first approach’
https://app.wedonthavetime.org/posts/400d259f-85b5-4392-8cd9-038104a64499 By Reinette Klever We’ve been extensively writing, here on We Don’t Have Time, about the freeze of USAID funding that Trump has announced and the devastating consequences that this decision has and will have on climate action in the US and around the world. The thing is: he has now inspired other leaders to […]
EPA tells White House to strike down ‘endangerment finding’ on climate – Regulates CO2 as pollutant under the Clean Air Act – Reversal to be ‘one of its most consequential steps yet to derail federal climate efforts’
Washington Post: By repealing the endangerment finding, the Trump administration would be taking one of its most consequential steps yet to derail federal climate efforts. In recent days, the administration has also blocked work that is central to international climate research and barred federal scientists and diplomats from attending a major climate event in China.
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In 2007, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act. In response, the EPA first issued the endangerment finding and then established the first-ever carbon limits for vehicles and power plants.
Kill the EPA greenhouse gas rule: Declaring CO2 a ‘pollutant’ is ‘the cornerstone of wrongheaded climate regulation’
https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2025/feb/25/kill-epa-greenhouse-gas-rule/ By Vijay Jayaraj – Kill the EPA greenhouse gas rule Relying on flawed analyses to justify onerous federal regulations Having declared carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases harmful pollutants, the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 endangerment finding has been the cornerstone of wrongheaded climate regulation. It impedes economic growth and destroys livelihoods, resulting from rulemaking that puts ideology […]