EPA just issued its most damaging climate change move ever.

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In the most detrimental climate change–related regulatory action ever, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed this week to withdraw its 2009 finding that greenhouse gases “endanger public health or welfare.” EPA had consistently invoked this endangerment finding in its regulatory actions, including during the Trump administration’s first term.

In addition, EPA proposed to repeal all its greenhouse gas standards for cars and trucks. To justify these deeply misguided actions, the agency engaged in a shocking display of professional ineptitude, invoking legal, scientific, and economic arguments so weak that, if raised before a court, they might trigger discipli