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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
World
Dharna Noor

Trump to repeal Obama-era finding foundational to US climate rules

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Donald Trump and Lee Zeldin, the EPA administrator, at a rally in 2024. Photograph: Elizabeth Frantz/Reuters

In what is set to be its most audacious anti-environment move yet, the Trump administration on Thursday will roll back the mechanism allowing the government to regulate planet-heating pollution, the White House press secretary has told reporters.

“President Trump will be joined by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the recession of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” Karoline Leavitt said at a press conference on Tuesday. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history.”

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