EPA to review landmark climate finding amid barrage of pollution rollbacks

Activists horrified as Trump officials to reconsider finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public healthDonald Trump’s administration to is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’ climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an extraordinary cavalcade pollution rule rollbacks on Wednesday, led by the announcement it will potentially scrap a landmark 2009 finding by the US government that planet-heating gases, such carbon dioxide, pose a threat to human health. Continue reading...

EPA to review landmark climate finding amid barrage of pollution rollbacks

Activists horrified as Trump officials to reconsider finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health

Donald Trump’s administration to is to reconsider the official finding that greenhouse gases are harmful to public health, a move that threatens to rip apart the foundation of the US’ climate laws, amid a stunning barrage of actions to weaken or repeal a host of pollution limits upon power plants, cars and waterways.

Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an extraordinary cavalcade pollution rule rollbacks on Wednesday, led by the announcement it will potentially scrap a landmark 2009 finding by the US government that planet-heating gases, such carbon dioxide, pose a threat to human health. Continue reading...