Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel testified this week against what she called an “ill-conceived proposal” to rescind federal authority to regulate climate action.

Nessel testified online Aug. 19 before the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency about her “strenuous” opposition to the effort by the Trump administration to roll back the agency’s greenhouse gas endangerment finding. For more than 15 years that landmark scientific conclusion has provided the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

Michigan’s attorney general characterized the rulemaking maneuver as an effort by the federal government under President Donald Trump to “abdicate its legal duty to take action.”

Nessel said that although the state is far from rising sea level

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