The Environmental Defense Fund has filed a lawsuit seeking to force the Trump administration to divulge the details of its effort to revoke a linchpin of U.S. climate policy.
The lawsuit filed Monday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia claimed that EPA has failed to produce any records relating to its efforts to undo the 2009 endangerment finding, which gives the agency the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
EDF said it submitted a public records request to EPA after Trump signed an executive order on his first day in office asking the agency to report on the “legality and continuing applicability” of the endangerment finding. EDF asked for all correspondence and records of all members of the EPA transition team and political appointees relating to the finding.
The group said it received a reply last week that its Freedom of Information Act request was placed on the “complex” processing track with an estimated completion date of May 30 — which EDF said in its lawsuit is months too late.
