EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act

EPA moves to end climate regulation under Clean Air Act

July 29 at 2:09 PM 2025
By Jake Spring and Anusha Mathur

https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2025/07/29/epa-endangerment-finding-clean-air-act/

The agency announced a proposal to rescind the landmark “endangerment finding,” which says that greenhouse gases are a threat to public health.

The Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced a proposal to rescind the landmark legal opinion that underpins virtually all of its regulations to curb climate change.
The move would end EPA regulations on greenhouse gases emitted by cars, while also undercutting rules that limit power plant emissions and control the release of methane by oil and gas companies.

“If finalized, today’s announcement would amount to the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States, ” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday at a truck dealership in Indianapolis.

This is not just an attack on science but on common sense,” said Zealan Hoover, a former senior adviser to the EPA administrator under President Joe Biden. “The National Climate Assessment provides over 2,000 pages of detailed evidence that climate change harms our health and welfare, but you can also ask the millions of Americans who have lost their homes and livelihoods to extreme fires, floods, and storms that are only getting worse.”