Advocates, businesses, local leaders, and others filed more than 300,000 comments to an EPA proposal that would scrap legal language establishing greenhouse gases as a danger to public health.
The Environmental Protection Agency closed the docket for comments Sept. 22, ending the next step in the rulemaking process for a proposed revocation of the 2009 endangerment finding and vehicle emission standards.
Critics maintain the move flies against years of research that proves climate change is both human-caused and getting worse without effective greenhouse gas mitigation.
State officials also voiced concern for local climate impacts across the US, from flooding to ...