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A team of climate scientists led by Benjamin Santer rebuts a US Department of Energy report they say misrepresents evidence of humanity’s role in warming, reaffirming the distinctive fingerprint of climate change—tropospheric warming and stratospheric cooling—and warning the DOE analysis should not be used to justify regulatory decisions like the EPA’s endangerment finding.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin remains secure amid a wave of cabinet resignations and rumors of higher roles, by aggressively advancing Trump’s agenda, including repealing the 2009 endangerment finding; with turnover continuing, he’s seen as a potential attorney general candidate, while others face scrutiny and pressure from opponents and allies alike.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin delivered the keynote at a Heartland Institute climate conference, aligning with a prominent climate-denial group and challenging mainstream climate science, while critics warned the event underscored the Trump era’s environmental rollbacks and the repeal of the endangerment finding.
EPA chief Lee Zeldin defended and celebrated the repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding—the legal basis for many climate rules—telling skeptics at a Heartland Institute conference to 'celebrate vindication' as the agency moves to rollback regulations amid mounting legal challenges.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin became the first agency head to speak at the Heartland Institute’s climate conference, signaling a shift toward fringe climate views by endorsing the conference’s emissions-with-benefits thesis and backing the repeal of the endangerment finding, a move that faces legal challenges and could affect broader Clean Air Act rules.
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.
More than two dozen states and 10 cities are suing the EPA, arguing that the agency overstepped by repealing the endangerment finding — a cornerstone of federal climate and vehicle-emission rules — and that the move undermines climate protections and public health safeguards.
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.
About 40 states and local governments filed a petition in the US Court of Appeals to overturn the Trump administration's repeal of the Obama-era 2009 endangerment finding that greenhouse gases threaten public health, arguing the move violates the Clean Air Act; the EPA says it carefully reevaluated the ruling's legal basis as part of its policy resets, following broader climate policy rollbacks by the administration.
A coalition of health and environmental groups filed a Washington, D.C. appeals-court lawsuit challenging the EPA’s rollback of the Obama-era endangerment finding that linked greenhouse gases to health risks, arguing the move violates the Clean Air Act and shifts the agency away from protecting health, while naming EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as a defendant; critics warn it could raise pollution and costs, though the EPA says deregulation could boost the economy.
More than a dozen health and environmental-justice groups filed a DC Circuit lawsuit challenging the EPA’s rollback of the 2009 endangerment finding, which underpins limits on heat-trapping emissions from vehicles and power plants. The plaintiffs name the EPA and Administrator Lee Zeldin as defendants, arguing the repeal jeopardizes public health protections under the Clean Air Act and contradicts science; the agency defends the move as lawful. The outcome could affect ongoing climate-regulation efforts.
The EPA’s repeal of the Obama-era endangerment finding weakens federal authority to regulate vehicle greenhouse-gas emissions, potentially allowing automakers to ignore GHG rules. That shift could empower California to pursue its stricter tailpipe standards and encourage other states to follow suit, risking a patchwork of rules nationwide. Legal questions loom about state versus federal power, with a conservative Supreme Court backdrop and California lawmakers signaling possible go-it-alone options, all at a time when transportation makes up a large share of California’s emissions.
The Trump administration announces the repeal of the Obama-era Endangerment Finding, removing EPA greenhouse-gas regulations and EV mandates, in what is described as the largest deregulation action in U.S. history. Supporters say it will lower prices, expand consumer choice, and boost energy independence, citing estimated savings of over $1 trillion and about $2,400 saved per new vehicle.
The White House moves to unwind the EPA’s endangerment finding, rolling back greenhouse-gas regulations and avoiding reliance on a DOE-backed contrarian report; the five researchers behind that report faced heavy criticism and lawsuits, and EPA’s final action signals a regulatory argument rather than a challenge to mainstream climate science.
President Trump's administration moved to rescind the EPA's endangerment finding, a bedrock basis for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act, triggering planned lawsuits by environmental groups and Democrat-led states that are likely to reach the Supreme Court as the Court shifts conservative, with years of litigation ahead that could reshape how U.S. climate policy is enforced and challenged.