EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has told the White House whether he plans to abandon the agency’s authority to regulate climate pollution. He’s just not telling the public.
On Wednesday night, EPA told POLITICO’s E&E News that it was “in compliance” with President Donald Trump’s directive to brief the White House on “the legality and continuing applicability of the 2009 Endangerment finding.” The finding — that greenhouse gases endanger human health — is the basis for all U.S. climate rules.
The president’s Inauguration Day executive order gave EPA until Wednesday to produce recommendations jointly with other agencies, including the Energy and Interior departments. But it did not require any of the agencies to make those recommendations public.
EPA didn’t respond to questions about when and if it will publicly release its White House submission.
