CO2: 428.62 ppmLawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’
The endangerment finding gives the EPA authority to regulate greenhouse gases by deeming they pose a risk to public health and welfare.
A coalition of health and environmental groups is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, saying the government should not have rescinded the scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change
The Trump administration says greenhouse gases emitted from sources like cars, trucks and power plants will no longer by regulated by the federal government.
The EPA’s Endangerment Finding, which claimed the right to regulate greenhouse gases, led to a host of federal rules whose estimated costs exceeded $1 trillion.
The move eviscerates the government’s ability to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
Rescinding the 2009 rule will leave Americans to pay a high price — up to nearly $4 trillion by 2055, and a health risk to tens of millions, writes Julia Musto