Donald Trump's administration is preparing to repeal a text dating back to Barack Obama that forms the foundation of the fight against greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
Called an “Endangerment finding,” this decision by the Environmental Protection Agency was adopted in 2009: it establishes that six greenhouse gases are dangerous to public health and therefore fall within the scope of pollutants regulated by the federal agency.
The bill paved the way legally for numerous federal regulations aimed at limiting emissions of gases that warm the atmosphere (CO2, methane, etc.), starting with trucks and cars, which emit CO2 when burning gasoline.
Its impending revocation will therefore eliminate the regulatory authority that the EPA relied on to promulgate those regulations and will allow the Trump administration to more easily repeal them in turn.
“If finalized, it would be the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States of America,” EPA head Lee Zeldin said during a visit to a Ford plant in Ohio.
(Unioneonline)
