Congressional Democrats and activists are intensifying their protest against the administration’s intention to undo one of the main pillars of U.S. climate policy.
EPA Administration Lee Zeldin is recommending the administration undo a 2009 finding that labels greenhouse gases a pollutant under the Clean Air Act, people familiar with the situation said Wednesday. That endangerment finding followed a 2007 Supreme Court ruling in the case Massachusetts v. EPA that opened the door for the agency’s action.
Outside the Capitol on Thursday, Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) declared the landmark ruling was “the most important environmental decision in the history of the world.”
“If the Trump administration wants to say that climate-fueled hurricanes, wildfires, record-breaking heat and droughts aren’t a danger to our country, then this administration itself is a danger to our country every day of the week,” Markey said.
