WASHINGTON (AP) – The government of President Donald Trump proposed on Tuesday to withdraw a scientific finding that has long been the central basis for the American action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and to combat climate change.
The proposed Rule for Environmental Protection Agency is withdrawing a 2009 statement that determines that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and well -being.
The “finding” in danger “is the legal basis for a large number of climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other sources of pollution that heat the planet.
EPA manager Lee Zeldin announced the proposed change in rule in a podcast prior to an official announcement set in Indiana for Tuesday.
Withdrawal of the threat “will be the largest deregulating action in the history of America,” said Zeldin on the ruthless podcast.
Rarin called for a rewriting of the finding in March in March as part of a series of wrapping for the environment that was at the same time announced in what rarer said was “the biggest day of deregulation in American history.” A total of 31 important environmental rules on topic of clean air to clean water and climate change would be reversed under Redin's plan.
He selected the threat as “the holy grail of the religion of climate change,” and said he was very happy to end it, “while the EPA is doing his part to herald the Golden Age of American success.” '
Limits of the exhaust pipe emission are also targeted
The EPA also called for the withdrawal of limits for exhaust emissions designed to encourage car manufacturers to build and sell more electric vehicles. The transport sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
Three former EPA leaders have rarely criticized and say that his proposal would jeopardize the lives of millions of Americans in March and leave the double mission of the agency to protect the environment and human health.
“If there is a threat to find somewhere, it must be found in this government, because what they are doing is so contrary to what the Environmental Protection Agency is about,” said Christine Todd Whitman, who led EPA under Republican President George W. Bush, said after the plan of Zeldin was made.
The EPA proposal follows an executive order of Trump that the agency has instructed to submit a report “on the legality and continuous applicability” of the finding of the threat.
Conservatives and some conference republicans greeted the first plan and called it a way to undo economically harmful rules to regulate greenhouse gases.
But environmental groups, legal experts and Democrats said that every attempt to withdraw or return from the finding would be a tough task with a slender chance of success. The finding came two years after a ruling by the Supreme Court of 2007 that the EPA has the authority to regulate greenhouse gases as air pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
Passing the court can be a problem
David Doniger, a climate expert at the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental group, said that it was almost “impossible to think that the EPA could develop a conflicting finding (according to the 2009 standard) who would rise in court.”
Doniger and other critics accused the Republican government of Trump of the use of potential withdrawal of the threat of finding the control as a 'kill -shot' that would enable him to invalidate all climbing regulations. If delegated, the withdrawal of the finding of the danger would delete the current limits on the pollution of greenhouse gases, factories, factories, factories, power plants and other sources and future managers of the rules of the rules for climate change.
“The finding in danger is the legal basis that underlies essential protection for millions of people from the serious threats of climate change, and the clean car and truck standards are among the most important and effective protection to tackle the largest American source of climate statement,” said Peter Zalzal, employee of the environment.
“The attacking of these guarantees is clearly not in accordance with the responsibility of EPA to protect the health and well -being of Americans,” he said. “It is callig, dangerous and a violation of the responsibility of our government to protect the American people against this devastating pollution.”
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