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#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.' "

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/kp4pY

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Environmental groups sue Trump’s EPA over repeal of landmark climate finding

Lawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

The Guardian

News Beep Feb 11

As the Trump EPA Prepares to Revoke Key Legal Finding on Climate Change, What Happens Next?

Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and …
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #CleanAirAct #Climatechange #deregulation #deregulatory #DonaldTrump #endangermentfinding #EnvironmentalProtectionNetwork #EPA #InflationReductionAct #LeeZeldin #Massachusettsv.EPA #NRDC #SupremeCourt #Trumpadministration #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/392737/

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Feb 8

Trump always hated #offshorewind. Now he's killing it
Trump halted 5 approved offshore wind projects despite rising #electricity demand
“This so-called ‘pause’ on offshore wind makes no sense and is an escalation of the Administration’s ongoing, baseless attacks on clean energy” said Pasha Feinberg of #NRDC. “In its ongoing effort to prop up waning fossil fuels interests the Administration is taking wilder and wilder swings at the clean energy projects this economy needs”
https://grist.org/climate-energy/trump-has-always-hated-offshore-wind-now-hes-moving-to-kill-it/

Trump has always hated offshore wind. Now he's moving to kill it.

The Trump administration has halted 5 already approved offshore wind projects despite rising electricity demand.

Grist

ithoughthecamewithyou.com Sep 28

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#Resist

February resolution: 28 days of resistance to Donald Trump. Donations, phone calls and protests. #resist!

I Thought He Came With You

Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬Sep 22

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect #Ocean Clears Final Hurdle
#HighSeasTreaty was ratified by 60th nation Morocco crossing threshold for #UnitedNations treaties to go into effect. Decades in making, it allows for establishment of #conservation zones in international waters. Environmentalists hailed it as a historic. Treaty "is a conservation opportunity that happens once in a generation" said Lisa Speer, who directs International Oceans Program at #NRDC
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/19/climate/high-seas-treaty-ocean-biodiversity-ratified.html
https://archive.ph/Oxc8t

Hard-Fought Treaty to Protect Ocean Life Clears a Final Hurdle

The global High Seas Treaty, decades in the making, will become international law. It aims to create vast maritime conservation areas.

The New York Times

DoomsdaysCW Jun 28, 2025

#ClarenceThomas Secretly Participated in #KochBrothers Network Donor Events

by Joshua Kaplan, Justin Elliott and Alex Mierjeski
Sept. 22, 2023, 5 a.m. EDT

Excerpt: "Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

" 'In the 15 years since, the Koch network has left a deep imprint on American society. Its advocacy is credited with helping stamp out Republican Party support for combating #ClimateChange, once an issue that drew bipartisan concern. The “full weight of the network” was thrown behind passing the 2017 #TrumpTaxCut, securing a windfall for the Kochs and their donors. And the upcoming Supreme Court term could bring the network a victory it has pursued for years: overturning a major legal precedent known as #Chevron.

"While most Americans aren’t familiar with the 1984 case Chevron v. #NRDC, it’s one of the Supreme Court’s most-cited decisions. Legal scholars sometimes mention it in the same breath as Brown v. Board of Education and Roe v. Wade. In essence, Chevron is about government agencies’ ability to issue regulations. After a law is enacted, it’s generally up to agencies across the government to make detailed rules putting it into effect. The Chevron decision said courts should be hesitant to second-guess the agencies’ determinations. In the years that followed, judges cited Chevron in upholding rules that protect endangered species, speed up the approval process for new cellphone towers and grant benefits to coal miners suffering from black lung.

"The Koch network has challenged Chevron in the courts and its lobbyists have pushed Congress to pass a law nullifying the decision. It has also provided millions of dollars in grants to law professors making the case to overturn it.

"The network’s position has become increasingly popular in recent years. Once broadly supported by academics and judges on the right, Chevron is now anathema to many in the conservative legal movement. And there’s no more prominent convert than Thomas.

"In 2005, Thomas wrote the majority opinion in a case that expanded Chevron’s protections for government agencies. Ten years later, he was openly questioning the doctrine. Then in 2020, Thomas renounced his own earlier decision, writing that he’d determined the doctrine is unconstitutional after all — a rare reversal for a justice with a reputation for being unmovable in his views.

"By last year, Koch network strategists sensed that victory could be at hand. During an internal briefing for network staff, Jorge Lima, a senior vice president at Americans for Prosperity, said the Supreme Court seemed primed to radically change its approach to the issue. The network was trying to find cases that could bring about major changes in the law, according to a video of the meeting obtained by the watchdog group Documented. “We’re doubling down on this strategy,” Lima told the crowd.

"Several months later, the Supreme Court announced it would take up a case, Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo, in which Koch network staff attorneys represent the plaintiffs. If Thomas and his colleagues side with them this coming term, Chevron will be overturned once and for all."

#OligarchCamp #BohemianGrove #SCOTUS #ImpeachClarenceThomas #Chevron #ChevronDoctrine #NDRC #KochIndustries #Oligarchy #CorruptSCOTUS #SCOTUSIsCompromised #Corporatocracy #Oiligarchy #EnvironmentalProtections #BigOilAndGas #CorporatePolluters #HeritageFoundation #ClimateDeniers #WaterIsLife #AirIsLife

Clarence Thomas Secretly Participated in Koch Network Donor Events

Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, putting him in the extraordinary position of having helped a political network that has brought multiple cases before the Supreme Court.

ProPublica

Speckdäne Jun 15, 2025

#NRDC Protect #Arctic public lands from the administration’s attacks. Tell the #Trump administration we will not let them give Big #Oil free rein to exploit the Western Arctic without a fight. https://action.nrdc.org/letter/4102-western-arctic-061525?

Gina Intheburg 🇺🇦 🌻 🥥🌴Jun 4, 2025

Devastating the nation's #EV charging stations network so #Tesla can dominate & your buddy Elon can make even more billions at the expense of taxpayers & the good of the #climate & the country?

Fuggeddabouddit! #NRDC is on it!

#ClimateChange

@NRDC_ORG on Dead 🐦:

Tailpipe pollution is devastating to our health & the economy. Air Resources’ work in #CA has saved countless lives & dollars. Climate advocates & frontline communities applaud its work & dedication.
https://www.kcra.com/article/california-democrat-urges-air-resources-board-chair-resign/64929144