The Trump Administration Plans To Repeal EPA Finding That Greenhouse Gas Emissions 'Threaten' Public Health
Pollution
Ronald Bailey | 2.10.2026 5:00 PM
The Trump administration will overturn the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) 2009 Endangerment Finding, according to The Wall Street Journal and other media outlets. Under the Clean Air Act, the EPA found that greenhouse gas emissions "threaten the public health and welfare of current and future generations." The threat stems from the fact that greenhouse gas emissions, largely from burning coal, oil, and natural gas, are contributing to rising average global temperatures. (As of........
