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Public health, green groups sue EPA over repeal of rule supporting climate protections
The coalition argues the EPA's reversal ignores nearly two decades of growing scientific evidence and threatens key climate protections, including vehicle emission standards.
- A coalition of health and environmental groups sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its repeal of the 2009 'endangerment finding' that greenhouse gases threaten public health.
- The 2009 finding was the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from sources like vehicles and power plants under the Clean Air Act.
- Environmental groups say the repeal undermines federal climate regulations and creates uncertainty for businesses.
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Coalition of Associations Pursues Trump Administration Following the Repeal of a Key Text on Climate
According to environmental associations, the arguments used by Donald Trump to justify this repeal do not hold and had already been examined and rejected in the past by the courts.
Climate groups sue Trump administration over EPA's bombshell deregulation decision
Climate activist groups filed a lawsuit to block the Trump administration's effort to revoke the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 "endangerment finding" that underpins climate regulations.
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Public health, green groups sue EPA over repeal of rule supporting climate protections
A coalition of health and environmental groups is suing the Environmental Protection Agency, challenging its determination last week that revoked a scientific finding that has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
EPA Sued to Stop It From Abandoning Climate Change Regulation
Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency. (Aaron Schwartz/Sipa USA via AP)A coalition of environmental and public health groups filed a lawsuit Wednesday to try to stop the Environmental Protection Agency from repealing its conclusion that climate change poses a significant risk to public health and welfare.The petition for review, filed in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, came six days afte…
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