U.S. to scrap legal cornerstone of climate regulations this week
The Hindu
U.S. to rescind 2009 climate regulation, impacting greenhouse gas standards and igniting legal battles over environmental policies.
U.S. President Donald Trump is set this week to scrap a landmark scientific finding that greenhouse gases jeopardise public health by driving climate change — the bedrock of U.S. regulations to curb planet-warming pollution.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last summer proposed reversing the so-called “endangerment finding” of 2009, in the administration’s latest boost to the fossil fuel industry.
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“On Thursday, President Trump will be joined by (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalise the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told a news briefing Tuesday (February 10, 2026).
“This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulation.”
The finding under then-president Barack Obama concluded that six greenhouse gases — including carbon dioxide and methane — endanger public health and welfare by driving climate change.
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