Environmentalists are using records on the Trump administration’s Climate Working Group to undermine an EPA proposal to kill key language establishing greenhouse gases as a public health threat.
Earthjustice on Wednesday filed supplemental comments and a request for the Environmental Protection Agency to retract a proposed rule that would rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, a move that would undercut sweeping climate and air pollution rulemaking.
The EPA’s planned rescission is based in part on a report that casts doubt on well-established climate science crafted by the Department of Energy’s Climate Working Group, which was disbanded shortly after release of the ...