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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Dharna Noor

Young Americans demand court halt Trump’s biggest rollbacks of pollution protections

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Heavy traffic fills multiple lanes of a freeway in Los Angeles, California, in February. Photograph: Apu Gomes/Getty Images

Eighteen American youth are demanding that a court immediately halt the Trump administration’s repeal of the scientific finding underpinning virtually all US climate regulations.

The plaintiffs sued the Trump administration in February days after officials revoked the 2009 endangerment finding, which found that greenhouse gas pollution threatens public health and welfare. Filed in the Washington DC circuit court of appeals Venner v EPA alleges that the move infringes upon rights guaranteed by the US constitution, including to religious freedom, life and liberty.

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