California sues over EPA repeal of greenhouse gas protection
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'They want to make pollution great again,' Gov. Gavin Newsom said in criticizing the climate protection rollback.
California will co-lead a coalition to challenge a recent decision by President Donald Trump's administration to revoke the Environmental Protection Agency's landmark climate findings that target greenhouse gases.
Gov. Gavin Newsom and Attorney General Rob Bonta announced on March 19 that California — along with 25 attorneys general, the Pennsylvania governor and 10 cities and counties — filed a federal lawsuit against the Trump administration regarding its recent decision to repeal the EPA's "endangerment finding", which has been the legal foundation for regulations targeting man-made greenhouse gases for nearly the last two decades.
"We're challenging the Trump administration's unlawful decision to roll back one of the most important climate protections in our country," Bonta said during a press conference. "The federal government is trying to overrule science and do away with the protection that limits harmful pollution from vehicles. The largest source of greenhouse gases in the United States."
In 2009, the Obama administration's EPA released its "Endangerment Findings," which concluded that six greenhouse gases significantly threaten public health and contribute to worsening environmental conditions. These findings served as the basis for passing the Clean Air Act, which imposed emission standards on cars, trucks and power plants.
In announcing the decision, Trump claimed that revoking these environmental protections would ultimately help Americans by making vehicle costs start "tumbling down" and that the findings had no "basis in fact."
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