Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’

Endangerment finding rollback will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate saysUS politics live – latest updatesThe Trump administration has revoked the bedrock scientific determination which gives the government the ability to regulate climate-heating pollution. The move was described as a gift to “billionaire polluters” at the expense of Americans’ health.The endangerment finding, which states that the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endangers public health and welfare, has since 2009 allowed the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to limit heat-trapping pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources. Continue reading...