EPA: A bonfire of climate change regulations

The Trump administration is trying to "unmake virtually all climate regulations in one fell swoop," said and in The Guardian . The Environmental Protection Agency last week unveiled a proposal to rescind its 2009 "endangerment finding"—the scientific conclusion that carbon dioxide poses a threat to human health. Without that finding, the EPA would lose its ability to limit planet-heating pollution from vehicles, power plants, and oil wells, despite the overwhelming scientific consensus that "a swift reduction in these emissions is needed to avert catastrophic global warming." The Trump administration's argument for rescinding is "a medley of strained legal and scientific arguments," said in the Los Angeles Times . It attacks the scientific basis for the finding, "calling it unrelia