https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2026/02/12/endangerment-finding-repeal/
“This rule doesn’t change the reality of climate change — it just denies it,” said one former EPA adviser under President Joe Biden.
By Jake Spring, Ambrosia Wojahn and Brady Dennis
Nearly 17 years after the Environmental Protection Agency declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten the public’s health and welfare, the agency on Thursday rescinded the landmark legal opinion underpinning a wave of federal policies aimed at climate change.
The agency issued its “endangerment finding” in 2009, concluding that the government had a sound legal basis to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. In scrapping the policy this week, the EPA will seek to erase limits on emissions from cars, power plants and other industries that release the vast majority of the nation’s planet-warming pollution.
