EPA plans to stop regulating greenhouse gases
9 months ago
- #EPA regulations
- #Trump administration
- #climate change
- The Trump administration proposes to curb government regulation of greenhouse gases by rolling back rules on emissions from fossil fuel drilling, power plants, and cars.
- EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the rollback of a 2009 declaration that deemed carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases a public health danger.
- Zeldin claims this action will end '16 years of uncertainty' for automakers and consumers, calling it the 'largest deregulatory action in the history of America.'
- The administration frames environmental regulations as harmful to economic growth and consumer choice.
- Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement, ended financial commitments, suspended methane leak detection, and cut electric vehicle incentives.
- Revoking the 'endangerment finding' removes the legal basis for government limits on emissions linked to climate change and health issues.