Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’

Rollback of government's ability to limit climate-heating pollution will make families sicker and less safe', environmental advocate says

The Trump administration has revoked the bedrock scientific determination that 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.

The endangerment finding, which states that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare, has since 2009 allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit heat-trapping pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources.