President Donald Trump’s administration is not the first to declare it has no legal authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

Twenty-two years ago, President George W. Bush’s administration came to the same conclusion , but that was hardly the end of the matter. The Bush decision touched off an era of aggressive legal and regulatory action by states, led by Massachusetts, California and Connecticut, which shaped the U.S. legal framework on climate change for two decades.

Could the same thing happen again, after the Trump administration finalizes its plan to rescind the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding on greenhouse gases? • ICN Weekly Saturdays Our #1 newsletter delivers the week’s climate and energy news – our original stories and top headlines from around

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