Awwww!!!! Shitstain Backs Away From Pushing EPA To Gut Endangerment Finding - It Would Likely Lose In Court
Trump officials have delayed finalizing the repeal of a landmark legal opinion key to their effort to eliminating the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules because of concerns the proposal is too weak to withstand a court challenge, according to two people familiar with the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss confidential information. The EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding” concluded that greenhouse gases harm public health, establishing the basis for regulating them under the Clean Air Act. Repealing the finding would end the agency’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks.
The White House’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, which reviews agency regulations, has expressed concerns over the strength of the scientific and economic analysis of the proposed repeal, the people said. EPA officials are resisting revisions to the policy and arguing that the regulation should be finalized and announced publicly in its current form as soon as possible, they added.
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The agency’s scientific argument for repealing the endangerment finding, released in July, primarily relied on an Energy Department report that was written last spring by a working group of five known climate skeptics. Scientists say the report is riddled with errors, and environmental groups have sued, saying the secretive way the department produced the report violated federal law. The working group has since been disbanded. “Their work was obliterated. The criticism leaves nothing standing,” said David Doniger, a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council.
The EPA has pursued an ambitious legal strategy of rewriting and finalizing rules as quickly as possible to force them into the court system, experts say, aiming to receive favorable rulings before the end of Trump’s term. But the agency missed its goal of finalizing the repeal of the endangerment finding by the end of 2025, and target dates for undoing other Obama- and Biden-era regulations have also slipped.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/01/29/endangerment-finding-repeal-delay/
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