The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Lee Zeldin, announced plans to repeal the foundational “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gas emissions threaten human health.

This action represents the largest deregulatory move in U.S. history regarding environmental regulation, aiming to roll back regulations controlling carbon dioxide, methane, and other greenhouse gases.

Driving the news: The endangerment finding, originally issued in 2009 under President Obama’s administration, established that emissions from new motor vehicles contribute to air pollution harmful to public health and welfare. • This finding has been upheld in multiple legal challenges and served as the legal basis for many subsequent greenhouse gas regulations.

The big picture: Zeldin stated on the Ruthless podcast

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