Trump rollback lawsuit highlights decades of US climate policy
TL;DR
Health and environmental groups are suing the EPA to challenge Trump's removal of the 2009 endangerment finding, which tied greenhouse gases to public health risks and underpinned major climate rules. The suit argues the rollback will increase pollution, costs, and avoidable deaths, while the piece also outlines how U.S. leaders from Nixon to Biden have alternately tightened or loosened environmental protections with global consequences.
- Long before Trump: How US policy has harmed the environment for decades Al Jazeera
- US states sue Trump EPA over decision to repeal bedrock climate finding The Guardian
- US states sue Trump over his move to scrap greenhouse gases ruling BBC
- Trump wants the EPA to stop regulating climate pollution. Blue states have launched a high-stakes legal case against him CNN
- 24 States Sue E.P.A. Over Climate Change Decision The New York Times
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