EPA Plans to Ditch Key Climate Policy, Washington Post Says (1)

The US Environmental Protection Agency is considering scrapping a landmark almost two-decade old legal opinion that greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to human health, the Washington Post reported.

The so-called endangerment finding, published in 2009, has been the legal basis of a wide range of climate rules under the Clean Air Act. A draft proposal to formally abandon the policy is being considered by the EPA, though is still subject to change, the newspaper reported, citing two sources familiar with the details which it didn’t name.

Limits on vehicle greenhouse gas emissions will be eliminated under the plan, ...