The USA PotatoStates Sue to Block EPA From Slashing Rule That Allows Greenhouse Gas Regulation
The rule, established in 2009, provides the legal justification needed to enforce the EPA's greenhouse gas regulations.
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻💻🧬24 States Sue the #EPA for Renouncing Its Power to Fight #ClimateChange
In the #lawsuit states are arguing EPA acted illegally when it rescinded a 2009 scientific conclusion that #carbondioxide and other #greenhousegases threaten #publichealth and welfare. Known as the #endangermentfinding, formed the legal basis for the E.P.A. to regulate emissions from automobile tailpipes, power plant smokestacks, oil and gas wells, and other sources.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/climate/epa-endangerment-states-lawsuit.html
https://archive.ph/2XDCQ
In the #lawsuit states are arguing EPA acted illegally when it rescinded a 2009 scientific conclusion that #carbondioxide and other #greenhousegases threaten #publichealth and welfare. Known as the #endangermentfinding, formed the legal basis for the E.P.A. to regulate emissions from automobile tailpipes, power plant smokestacks, oil and gas wells, and other sources.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/climate/epa-endangerment-states-lawsuit.html
https://archive.ph/2XDCQ
Çevre Hattı#ABD’de 23 eyalet ve 14 şehir, #Trump yönetiminin #iklim “tehlike tespiti”ni iptal kararına dava açtı #SonDakika #EPA #EndangermentFinding
ABD’de 23 eyalet ve 14 şehir, Trump yönetiminin iklim “tehlike tespiti”ni iptal kararına dava açtı
New York ve Kaliforniya’nın öncülüğünde 23 eyalet ile 14 şehir ve ilçe, federal hükümetin iklim düzenlemelerinin temelini oluşturan “tehlike tespiti”ni (endangerment finding) yürürlükten kaldıran kararı geri almak için Perşembe günü ABD Çevre Koruma Ajansı’na (EPA) dava açtı. Dava, ABD Columbia Bölgesi Temyiz Mahkemesi’nde görülecek. Ne hedefleniyor? Şikâyet, EPA’nın geçen ay 2009 tarihli ve sera gazı […]
Nonilex24 #States Sue the #EPA for Renouncing Its Power to Fight #ClimateChange
The suit accuses the agency of illegally repealing the #EndangermentFinding, the scientific assessment that required it to regulate #GreenhouseGases.
#law #Trump #ClimateCrisis
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/19/climate/epa-endangerment-states-lawsuit.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share
Climate Crisis Will Intensify Strong Winter Storms, Climate Scientist Warns
The Trump administration is defunding FEMA as well as climate research, making responding to such storms more difficult.This debate will undoubtedly be shaken up by the #Trump #EPA’s recent killing of the #EndangermentFinding. That scientific finding by the agency was the foundation of federal #GreenhouseGas #regulations. #SCOTUS has previously ruled that the EPA’s role managing those regulations blocked many federal lawsuits over harms from #ClimateChange. Some legal experts say the end of the endangerment finding opens up a new lane for lawsuits against the #FossilFuel industry in federal court.
Levka#ClimateCrisis #EndangermentFinding
"Trump has done more than harm the government’s ability to fight global heating
By repealing the EPA’s determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health, the president is denying reality itself.
The climate crisis is killing people. These deaths are measurable, documented and ongoing. Concluding otherwise is just playing pretend. Studies explain the mechanics, but lived experience supplies the truth. The people who suffer the consequences see the fire rising and water closing in. They need their government’s help.
Despite that, the president of the United States stood at a microphone last Thursday and abdicated his duty to them. 'It has nothing to do with public health,' he claimed about the climate crisis while announcing that the federal government would repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s 'endangerment finding', a determination that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. 'This is all a scam, a giant scam.'
What he was lying about is a truth the federal government – even under his first administration – has embraced for nearly two decades. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued the 'endangerment finding' in 2009. Drawing upon extensive scientific evidence, the EPA concluded that emissions driving the climate crisis contribute to extreme heat, intensified storms, rising sea levels, wildfires and degraded air quality, all of which carry direct consequences for human life and safety.
The endangerment finding was not rhetorical flourish. It was the legal keystone of modern US climate regulation, the scientific and administrative determination that enabled the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. It formed the basis for emissions standards governing vehicles, power plants and industry."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/18/trump-epa-climate-crisis-public-health
#EPA Faces First #Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major #Climate Rule
Arguing move to eliminate limits on #greenhousegases from vehicles, and potentially other sources, was illegal. Triggered by last week’s decision by the EPA to kill one of its key scientific conclusions, #endangermentfinding, which says greenhouse gases harm public health. The finding had formed the basis for climate regulations in #US. Likely to end up before the #SupremeCourt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-lawsuit.html
https://archive.ph/oacGt
Arguing move to eliminate limits on #greenhousegases from vehicles, and potentially other sources, was illegal. Triggered by last week’s decision by the EPA to kill one of its key scientific conclusions, #endangermentfinding, which says greenhouse gases harm public health. The finding had formed the basis for climate regulations in #US. Likely to end up before the #SupremeCourt.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-lawsuit.html
https://archive.ph/oacGt
#Renewables soar globally despite #US #climate pullback
Trump admin’s reversal of #endangermentfinding was met with dismay by experts; White House argues policy raised energy costs for consumers. Elsewhere in world, green technology is being implemented at pace: Africa’s #solar capacity expanded 17% last year, with 20 nations setting import records, and data this week showed China’s emissions may already be falling thanks in large part to its huge outlay on #cleanpower.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2026/renewables-soar-globally-despite-us-climate-pullback
Trump admin’s reversal of #endangermentfinding was met with dismay by experts; White House argues policy raised energy costs for consumers. Elsewhere in world, green technology is being implemented at pace: Africa’s #solar capacity expanded 17% last year, with 20 nations setting import records, and data this week showed China’s emissions may already be falling thanks in large part to its huge outlay on #cleanpower.
https://www.semafor.com/article/02/13/2026/renewables-soar-globally-despite-us-climate-pullback
DoomsdaysCW#EnvironmentalGroups sue #Trump’s #EPA over repeal of landmark #climate finding
Lawsuit from #health and #EnvironmentalJustice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’
Dharna Noor
Wed 18 Feb 2026 07.10 EST
"More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.
"Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA’s rollback of the '#EndangermentFinding', which states that the buildup of heat-trapping #pollution in the atmosphere endangers #PublicHealth and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from #vehicles, #PowerPlants and other #industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the #ClimateCrisis.
"The suit was brought by the American Public Health Association [#APHA], #AmericanLungAssociation, the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund, the #NaturalResourcesDefenseCouncil [#NRDC], the #SierraClub and 11 other public health and environmental organizations. The lawsuit was filed by green legal organizations #CleanAirTaskForce and #Earthjustice and it names the EPA and the agency’s administrator, #LeeZeldin, as defendants.
" 'EPA’s repeal of the endangerment finding and #safeguards to limit vehicle emissions marks a complete dereliction of the agency’s mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the #CleanAirAct,' said #GretchenGoldman, president and CEO at the #UnionOfConcernedScientists, another one of the groups behind the lawsuit. 'This shameful and dangerous action by the Trump administration and EPA Administrator Zeldin is rooted in falsehoods not facts and is at complete odds with the public interest and the best available science.' "
Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/trump-epa-environment-climate-lawsuit
Archived version:
https://archive.ph/kp4pY
#USPol #ClimateChange #EPAFail #ClimateCrisis #GreenhouseGas #FossilFools #FossilFuelIndustry #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #CorporatePolluters
