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Environmental and public health groups sued the EPA in the U.S. Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C., challenging the agency’s repeal of the endangerment finding that underpins federal greenhouse-gas limits.

The Guardian
Environmental groups sue Trump’s EPA over repeal of landmark climate finding

Lawsuit from health and environmental justice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’ More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations. Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA’s rollback of the “endangerment finding”, which states that the buildup of heat-trapping pollution in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the climate crisis . Continue reading. . .

Environmental groups sue Trump’s EPA over repeal of landmark climate finding
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New York Times
E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule

Environmental and health groups sued the E. P. A. over its elimination of the endangerment finding. The matter is likely to end up before the Supreme Court.

E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule
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The Guardian
Trump has done more than harm the government’s ability to fight global heating | Jamil Smith

By repealing the EPA’s determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health, the president is denying reality itself The climate crisis is killing people . These deaths are measurable, documented and ongoing. Concluding otherwise is just playing pretend. Studies explain the mechanics, but lived experience supplies the truth. The people who suffer the consequences see the fire rising and water closing in. They need their government’s help. Despite that, the president of the United States stood at a microphone last Thursday and abdicated his duty to them . “It has nothing to do with public health, ” he claimed about the climate crisis while announcing that the federal government would repeal the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding” , a determination that greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. “This is all a scam, a giant scam. ” Jamil Smith is a Guardian US columnist Continue reading. . .

Trump has done more than harm the government’s ability to fight global heating | Jamil Smith
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The Wall Street Journal
Opinion | EPA May Correct a Supreme Court Error

Will the justices reconsider their finding that Congress authorized the agency to regulate greenhouse gases?

Opinion | EPA May Correct a Supreme Court Error
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Le Figaro
United States: after the repeal of a key climate rule, advocacy groups sue the Trump administration

"We are suing Trump to prevent him from burning our children's future to ashes," said David Pettit, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity.

United States: after the repeal of a key climate rule, advocacy groups sue the Trump administration
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The Wall Street Journal
A coalition of climate and health organizations sued the EPA in an effort to combat its repeal of a landmark climate finding

The organizations say ending the endangerment finding will unleash far more pollution, threatening public health and accelerating climate change.

A coalition of climate and health organizations sued the EPA in an effort to combat its repeal of a landmark climate finding
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Der Standard
Donald Trump's Crusade Against Climate Protection

The U.S. president declares the climate crisis to be void and wants to roll back environmental regulations even more radically. But there is resistance.

Donald Trump's Crusade Against Climate Protection
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Público
Trump is being sued for rolling back the bedrock of U.S. environmental rules

Environmental and public health groups are challenging Trump to roll back the bedrock of U.S. climate regulations in a case filed with the U.S. Courts of Appeals.

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The Washington Post
Why the EPA’s emissions reversal is the responsible decision

The climate challenge is more nuanced and manageable than the agency once assumed.

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Financial Times
The human cost of Trump’s environmental rollback

Deregulation drive comes with risks for public health as well as the planet’s

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