The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for US action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.
It is the most sweeping climate change policy rollback by the administration to date, after a string of regulatory cuts and other moves intended to unfetter fossil fuel development and stymie the rollout of clean energy.
"We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and drove up prices for American consumers," Trump said, saying it was the biggest deregulatory action in US history.
Trump has said he believes climate change is a "con job", and has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement, leaving the world’s largest historic contributor to global warming out of international efforts to combat it.
He has also signed legislation killing Biden-era tax credits aimed at accelerating deployment of electric cars ...
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