WASHINGTON (AP) – President Donald Trump’s administration on Tuesday proposed to cancel scientific discoveries, the central foundation of US actions to regulate and fight greenhouse gas emissions Climate change.
Proposed Environmental Protection Agency The rules revoke the 2009 declaration that determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases would put public health and welfare at risk.
“Danger Discovery” is the legal basis for many climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for cars, power plants, and other sources of pollution that heat planets.
Lee Zeldin, EPA Administrator Ahead of the official announcement set on Tuesday in Indiana, the podcast announced the proposed rule changes.
In a ruthless podcast, Zeldin said he would abolish the discovery of the dangers of “it will be the biggest deregulation action in American history.”
Zeldin called out the March Danger Discovery Rewrite as part of A set of environment rollbacks “The Greatest Day of Deregulation in American History” was announced at the same time as Zeldin said. 31 Important Environmental Rules From clean air to clean water, climate change will be abolished or abolished under Zeldin’s plan.
He said he was excited to pick the dangerous discovery as the “Holy Grail of Climate Change Religion” and end it “as the EPA plays its part in reaching the golden age of American success.” ”
Tail pipe emission restrictions are also targeted
The EPA also called for revoking tailpipe emission restrictions designed to encourage automakers to build and sell more Electric car. The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
Three former EPA leaders criticized Zeldin for his March proposal to put the lives of millions of Americans at risk and abandon the agency’s dual mission to protect the environment and human health.
“If there’s a danger of being discovered everywhere, what they’re doing is against what the Environmental Protection Agency is doing, so they should be discovered in this administration,” said Christine Todd Whitman, who led the EPA under Republican President George W. Bush, after Zeldin’s plans were made public.
EPA proposals continue Presidential Order From Trump, who directed the agency to submit a report on the “legality and continued applicability” of risky findings.
Conservatives and some Congressional Republicans welcomed the initial plan and called it a way to revoke economically damaging rules to regulate greenhouse gases.
However, environmental groups, legal experts and Democrats said attempts to abolish or roll back danger discoveries would be a challenging task with a slight chance of success. The discovery comes two years after the Supreme Court in 2007 determined that the EPA had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
Court convener could be a problem
“It’s impossible to believe that the EPA can develop a contradictory finding (the 2009 standard) that will rise up in court,” said David Doniger, a climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group.
Doniger and other critics accused Trump’s Republican administration of using the potential abolition of danger discovery as a “kill shot.” This would allow for the reversal of all climate regulations. At the risk of extinction, current restrictions on greenhouse gas pollution from automobiles, factories, power plants and other power plants will be eliminated, preventing future administrations from proposing future administrations.
“Danger discovery is the legal foundation that supports critical protections for millions of people from the serious threat of climate change, and clean car and truck standards are one of the most important and effective protections to address the biggest source of climate-causing pollution.”
“Attacking these safeguards is clearly inconsistent with the EPA’s responsibility to protect the health and well-being of Americans,” he said.
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