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Trump’s Quiet Undoing of EPA Climate Authority

Feb 28,2026
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The Trump administration today formally repealed the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” which had declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health and welfare—serving as the legal foundation for the EPA to regulate carbon emissions under the Clean Air Act. (GettyImages) For now, the rule change applies only to tailpipe emissions from cars and trucks, but […]