Long before Trump: How US policy has harmed the environment for decades
Al Jazeera
Environment advocacy groups are suing the US government over climate change policy rollback but Trump is not the first president to oversee harmful policies.
Health and environment advocacy groups in the United States are suing the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw a key 2009 climate change ruling known as the “endangerment finding”.
That finding had established that greenhouse gases are a risk to public health and environmental safety, given that they are the primary drivers of climate change. It formed the legal basis for many regulatory policies aimed at curbing climate change.
Case relates to RWE and Heidelberg Materials, accused by farmers of emissions that intensified the catastrophic floods and destroyed farmlands.
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