The Environmental Protection Agency no longer believes that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health and welfare.
On Thursday afternoon, the Trump administration finalized the long-awaited repeal of what’s known as the “endangerment finding.”
The endangerment finding was first reached in 2009, and concluded that the planet-warming effects of greenhouse gasses were dangerous to the public. The finding forms the basis for all EPA regulations on greenhouse gas emissions from trucks, cars, power plants and other sources of pollution.