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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Julia Musto

EPA poised to scrap landmark finding that will limit its battle against climate change

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has taken another step toward ending its own ability to fight the climate crisis.

The agency is considering scrapping a 2009 scientific “endangerment finding” that confirmed greenhouse gases from the oil and gas industry, and other sources, endangered people’s health, so there was reason to regulate them under the 1970 Clean Air Act.

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