The Environmental Protection Agency said on Wednesday that it would “regularly consider” a historic mark of 2009, which caused greenhouse gases to be a threat to public health.
The announcement was one of the operations by the EPA to return the environmental regulations, including the rules related to pollution from coal -fired power plants and electric vehicles.
“We are running a dagger from the heart of climate change religion and begins in the golden age of the United States,” said Le Zeldon, the administrator of the EPA. OPD In the Wall Street Journal.
A long base for US action to fight climate change, the EPA’s “endangered” has shown that greenhouse gases that warming the planet have jeopardized public health and welfare. Under the Clean Air Act, the determination of Obama’s era indicates legal arguments for several climate regulations for vehicles and other sources of pollution.
“After 16 years, the EPA will formally re -consider the search for a danger,” Zodidlon said in a statement on Wednesday. “The Trump administration will not sacrifice national prosperity, energy safety, and the freedom of our people for an agenda that embraces our industries, our movements and the choice of our customers abroad.”
Environmental experts immediately criticized the policy shift and suggested that it faces legal challenges.
“In comparison to the tremendous science, it is impossible to think that the EPA can promote a contradictory search that will stand in court,” said David Donager, a climate expert at the Environment Group, Natural Resources Defense Council.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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