Update. It's happening. Tomorrow the #Trump #EPA will repeal the 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger human health. That "endangerment" finding allowed the EPA to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act. Its repeal will pave the way for the repeal of those regulations.
https://www.euronews.com/green/2026/02/11/one-of-the-most-damaging-decisions-in-modern-history-trump-epa-to-repeal-key-climate-findi

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Update. The repeal of the endangerment finding is based on a recommendation from Trump's Climate Working Group. Less than two weeks ago, a federal judge ruled that the group violated federal law by failing to represent a balance of viewpoints (all five members were hand-picked skeptics) and failing to hold public hearings.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/30/climate/energy-department-climate-ruling.html

Clearly "the decision to change the policy was made ahead of assembling scientific evidence to support that decision."
https://blog.ucs.org/science-blogger/internal-doe-documents-confirm-climate-report-was-created-to-justify-administration-policy/

PS: There will be legal challenges to the EPA repeal of the endangerment finding, and those challenges will cite the procedural violations in the operation of the Climate Working Group. But it's not yet clear how far those violations will undermine the EPA action.

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Update. The #EPA endangerment finding is gone.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/trump-epa-rollback-pollution-regulation-endangerment-finding

"The Trump administration has revoked the bedrock scientific determination which gives the government the ability to regulate climate-heating pollution. The move was described as a gift to 'billionaire polluters' at the expense of Americans’ health…Environmental advocates have condemned the move as illegal. A slew of green groups have promised to take EPA to court over the rollback."

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Update. The litigation to restore the endangerment finding has begun.
https://www.edf.org/media/epa-sued-over-illegal-repeal-climate-protections

"A broad coalition of health and environmental groups sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (#EPA) today [Feb 18] over its illegal determination that it is not responsible for protecting us from climate pollution."

Here's the official complaint:
https://library.edf.org/AssetLink/h3f286t8xt043h8k2404vfvva3866bh5.pdf

Here's the impressive list of plaintiff orgs:
American Public Health Association, Alliance of Nurses for Healthy Environments, American Lung Association, Center for Biological Diversity, Center for Community Action and Environmental Justice, Clean Air Council, Clean Wisconsin, Conservation Law Foundation, Environmental Defense Fund, Environmental Law & Policy Center, Friends of the Earth, Natural Resources Defense Council, Physicians for Social Responsibility, Public Citizen, Rio Grande International Study Center, Sierra Club, and Union of Concerned Scientists.

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