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AP: Scientific Studies Calculate Climate Change as Health Danger, While Trump Calls It a 'Scam'
The EPA's repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding removes key legal grounds for climate regulations, risking millions of lives amid over 29,000 health studies linking greenhouse gases to harm.
- On Thursday, the Environmental Protection Agency finalized a rule rescinding the 2009 endangerment finding, with President Donald Trump calling it `This determination had no basis in fact, had none whatsoever, and no basis in law`.
- Following a Trump executive order, EPA records show the agency planned in July to reverse the finding, with the administration claiming about $2,400 per car savings and more than $1 trillion in regulatory relief.
- Research shows more than 29,000 peer-reviewed studies, including over 5,000 on the United States and over 60% recent, link warming to more than 9,700 global deaths and rising U.S. heat deaths.
- EPA's repeal also ended vehicle greenhouse-gas rules, and experts warn it could erase pollution limits for cars and light trucks, power plants and factories, prompting legal challenges in U.S. courts.
- Critics noted the administration relied on a disbanded Energy Department working group whose report researchers panned for errors, while the fossil fuel industry and conservative activist Myron Ebell welcomed the rollback.
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When the Trump administration erased one of the nation’s bedrock scientific principles on climate change this week, it set up a legal battle that’s all but certain to hinge on the Supreme Court. And not for the first time. The scientific principle that was killed on Thursday, the endangerment finding, which found that greenhouse gases endanger public health by heating up the world, itself resulted from a Supreme Court decision 20 years ago. The …
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Tailpipe standards meant to hasten adoption of electric vehicles were slashed alongside the scientific basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions. That will come at a cost.By Marianne Lavelle, Dan GearinoWith the repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s scientific finding on the dangers of greenhouse gases, the Trump administration is aiming to take out many federal actions on climate change in one blast.
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Trump slashes ‘ridiculous’ climate law
Donald Trump has revoked a landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. The US president has already pulled out of the Paris Climate Agreement not once, but twice. Now, he’s gone full anti-science with this latest, earth-changing announcement. The endangerment finding of 2009 saw the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) declare that greenhouse gases were a threat and therefore the government had a legal basis to reg…
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