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EPA faces lawsuit over endangerment

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Environmental and health groups sued the EPA in the D.C. Circuit, challenging its repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding that underpinned U.S. greenhouse‑gas emissions rules.

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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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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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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by Roger A. Pielke Reposted by Lucas Bergkamp

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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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by Michael Gerrard

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A coalition of public health and environmental groups has just filed a lawsuit against EPA in the DC Circuit court challenging revocation of the greenhouse gas endangerment finding. They are represented by some of the country's leading environmental litigators. aboutblaw.com/bkXr
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February 18, 2026 at 3:01 PM
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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E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/c...
E.P.A. Faces First Lawsuit Over Its Killing of Major Climate Rule
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February 18, 2026 at 2:16 PM

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Today, @ucs.org joins @earthjustice.org and others challenging the Trump Administration's Endangerment Finding repeal.

These moves abandon the EPA's mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the Clean Air Act and they must be held to account. www.ucs.org/about/news/u...
UCS Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Endangerment Finding Repeal
UCS Joins Lawsuit Challenging Trump Administration’s Unlawful Endangerment Finding Repeal
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February 18, 2026 at 1:50 PM
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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by Dana R. Fisher Reposted by Wolfgang Crämer

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With the Paris Agreement targets no longer viable (and the US revoking its basis for federal climate policy), many turn attention to adapting to our much-warmed world.

www.theguardian.com/environment/...
‘Daunting but doable’: Europe urged to prepare for 3C of global heating
Advisory board member says adapting is ‘not rocket science’ but Europe already paying price for lack of preparation
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February 18, 2026 at 1:18 PM
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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by Paul Dorfman

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by Richard S.J. Tol

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This paper restricts trade to see the impact of climate change get worse: pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/eprint/41...
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February 18, 2026 at 8:54 AM

by Richard S.J. Tol

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I see that Science has caught up with the frontier.

Ken Strzepek published the same 32 years ago.
February 18, 2026 at 8:20 AM

by Paul Lehmann Reposted by Richard S.J. Tol

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Using markets to adapt to climate change: Research shows if and when markets can help limit the harms from climate change
www.science.org/doi/epdf/10....
Using markets to adapt to climate change
Research shows if and when markets can help limit the harms from climate change
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February 18, 2026 at 8:02 AM

Reposted by Steve Peers

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Trump’s climate repeal will kill America's transition from gas guzzlers to EVs www.motherjones.com/environment/...
Trump’s climate repeal will kill America's transition from gas guzzlers to EVs
Tailpipe emission standards were slashed along with the scientific basis for regulating them.
www.motherjones.com
February 18, 2026 at 6:36 AM
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