Most of the United States’ major climate regulations are underpinned by one important document: It’s called the endangerment finding, and it concludes that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to human health and welfare.

The agency’s administrator said in a podcast that the move would be “the largest deregulatory action in the history of America.”

In 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that greenhouse gases are classified as pollutants under the Clean Air Act, and in 2009, then-President Barack Obama issued an order allowing the agency to establish emissions standards. The rule is known as the “endangerment finding.”

Administrator Zeldin Vows to Repeal "Endangerment Finding," Citing Economic Burden and New Scientific Data In a move poised to reshape American environmental policy, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Tuesday his agency's intent to roll back the Obama-era 2009 Endangerment Finding.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will on Tuesday propose to repeal its landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases pose a threat to the public. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the

Environmental advocates, elected leaders and workers at the Environmental Protection Agency gathered at Federal Plaza downtown Monday to push back against the president’s reported plans to repeal a key federal determination that allows the EPA to help combat climate change.

While Trump has infamously mocked climate change as “a great hoax,” the ICJ unanimously declared that international law obliges “the protection of the climate system."

EPA plans to reverse endangerment finding, a foundation of the federal government's ability to address climate change.

They’re playing in our faces, rewriting the rules to protect corporate profits while our neighborhoods pay the price with our