States press legal bid to restore climate protections scrapped by Trump
TL;DR
Twenty-three states led by California and New York filed a petition in the D.C. Circuit Court challenging President Trump’s repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding that underpins federal climate regulations, seeking to reinstate the finding and block the EPA’s rollback of tailpipe standards; several cities and counties joined the suit, with critics arguing the move would harm public health and environmental protections.
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