EPA Revisiting California Emissions Curbs, Trump Official Says

President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency is considering rescinding California’s permission to tackle climate change through stringent automobile pollution limits, the administration said in a US Supreme Court filing.

In a motion that asked the court to put a pending case on hold, acting US Solicitor General Sarah Harris said the EPA had decided to “reassess the basis for and soundness of” a 2022 Biden administration decision allowing the pollution curbs.

The court is currently planning to consider a preliminary question in a lawsuit over the EPA’s power to authorize the California emissions limits. At issue is whether the entities ...