"A rule known as the endangerment finding requires the E.P.A. to regulate greenhouse gases. It has proved resilient against earlier attacks."
"For years, the fossil fuel industry and its allies have tried to overturn one of the most important federal rulings in the history of climate policy: the one that requires the government to limit greenhouse gases.
They lobbied. They sued. And so far they’ve failed.
But in President Trump, they have a new ally in their campaign against the rule, known as the endangerment finding. The finding empowers the Environmental Protection Agency to regulate greenhouse gases, like carbon dioxide, because they endanger human life.
On his first day in the White House, Mr. Trump ordered the E.P.A. administrator and other agency leaders to make a recommendation within 30 days on the “legality and continued applicability” of the endangerment finding, setting up an early clash over the science of climate change.
Since the E.P.A. has an obligation to regulate pollutants that harm human health, eliminating the endangerment finding would debilitate the agency’s authority to curb emissions from automobile exhaust, power plants, oil and gas wells, factories and more."
Karen Zraick and Lisa Friedman report for the New York Times January 28, 2025.
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