If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s most powerful way to control the country’s planet-warming pollution and fight climate change.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency moved to repeal a landmark environmental decision to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

The Trump EPA plans to reverse the 2009 endangerment finding that labels CO2 a pollutant, threatening US climate regulations. Using a legal argument to dodge scientific consensus, the move could unravel emission controls.

The Trump administration is trying to overturn the EPA's endangerment finding, which determined that greenhouse gas emissions can be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Lisa Heinzerling, former senior climate policy counsel to the EPA administrator,

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

EPA rollback of climate rules could weaken California’s clean air authority and trigger legal battles over greenhouse gas protections.

The 2009 climate “endangerment finding” serves as the scientific and legal basis for many of EPA’s rules that limit greenhouse gas emissions from things like cars and coal plants. EPA administrator Lee Zeldin said reversing the finding would be the largest deregulatory action in the country’s history.

They’re playing in our faces, rewriting the rules to protect corporate profits while our neighborhoods pay the price with our