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The Trump administration says greenhouse gases emitted from sources like cars, trucks and power plants will no longer be regulated by the federal government.
The agency’s repeal of a cornerstone of US climate rules is part of an aggressive deregulatory agenda whose effects on the environment will outlast the president.
The Environmental Protection Agency has revoked a key scientific finding that supported U.S. regulations on greenhouse gas emissions.
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EPA repeals endangerment finding
The move discards a scientific determination that empowered the government to limit climate pollution.
Trump's repeal of the endangerment finding eliminates the legal basis for federal regulations that target air pollution from greenhouse gases.
The Trump administration dismantled a key defense in the U.S. fight against climate change. Experts say that may have far-reaching impacts on people's finances.
The EPA’s announced rollback of emissions standards will likely mean fewer new vehicles will have engine stop-start systems in the near future.
The EPA formally repealed the 2009 endangerment finding that greenhouse gases are a pollutant that threaten public health.
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EPA reverses longstanding climate change finding, stripping its own ability to regulate emissions
The Environmental Protection Agency is rescinding the legal finding about climate change that it has long relied on to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Late last year, Ford CFO Sherry House said of the Blue Oval's Raptor off-road vehicles, "That's a product that I think we're going to be doing a bit more of," and now her boss has indicated that loosened EPA rules could make such a thing easier to achieve.
The Environmental Protection Agency this week announced an end to credits to automakers who install automatic start-stop ignition systems in their vehicles, a device intended to reduce emissions that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said "everyone hates.