Lawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’
Climate groups vow to fight rollback of 2009 finding determining CO2 and other greenhouse gases harm health
The Environmental Protection Agency has stopped estimating the dollar value of lives saved in the cost-benefit analyses for new pollution rules.
In government records that have flown under the radar, the EPA is questioning its legal authority to revise pollution rules more than once when new science shows unacceptable health risks.
New rule would prohibit states from banning dangerous chemicals, and could invalidate hundreds of protections
"Zeldin's assertion that the EPA shouldn't address greenhouse gas emissions is like a fire chief claiming that they shouldn't fight fires," said one critic. "It is as malicious as it is absurd."
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.
The regulation would require automakers to sell more electric vehicles and hybrids by gradually tightening limits on tailpipe pollution.
Guardian analysis of water samples taken in nine US locations shows test agency uses is likely missing significant levels of PFAS pollutants
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