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Trump voids greenhouse gas endangerment

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President Donald Trump’s administration revoked the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding” in the United States that greenhouse gases endanger public health, eliminating the federal legal basis to regulate emissions.

Die Zeit
Climate protection: Donald Trump scraps central climate protection target

US President Trump has declared the so-called greenhouse gas risk finding invalid. Environmental groups are shocked; the coal industry has praised it.

Climate protection: Donald Trump scraps central climate protection target
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Le Monde
Donald Trump rolls back federal greenhouse gas emission regulations in the United States

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency scrapped, on Thursday, a key rule that would have imposed emission standards for conventional vehicles and power plants. The president thus denies the risks climate change poses to his fellow citizens.

Donald Trump rolls back federal greenhouse gas emission regulations in the United States
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Der Spiegel
Downplaying greenhouse gases in the US: Horror and fury after Donald Trump's climate cudgel

Donald Trump drastically loosens the rules for climate protection in the United States. He faces sharp criticism from his predecessor Barack Obama. The move could end up before the Supreme Court. Then things will get interesting.

Downplaying greenhouse gases in the US: Horror and fury after Donald Trump's climate cudgel
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La Repubblica
Trump cancels the climate emergency: revocation of the plan against pollution launched by Obama

The president's signature on the document that erases the rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions and limiting environmental risks. The scientific community is in an uproar.

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La Repubblica
Trump cancels the climate emergency: revocation of the plan against pollution launched by Obama

The president's signature on the document that erases the rules regulating greenhouse gas emissions and limiting environmental risks. The scientific community is in an uproar.

Trump cancels the climate emergency: revocation of the plan against pollution launched by Obama
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by Roger A. Pielke

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by Alan Sked

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New York Times
Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.

Trump Repeals Key Greenhouse Gas Finding, Erasing EPA’s Power to Fight Climate Change
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by Michael E. Mann

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The Independent
Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a 'scam'

The Trump administration has revoked a scientific finding that climate change is a danger to public health, an idea that President Donald Trump called “a scam. ”

Scientific studies calculate climate change as health danger, while Trump calls it a 'scam'
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by Prem Sikka

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Público
Trump ends climate legislation in the U.S.

The assertion that greenhouse gases are harmful to health underpinned climate regulation in the U.S. Trump repealed it, along with the industrial rules it governed.

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Dagens Nyheter
Kritik mot Trumps klimatbeslut: ”Historisk attack”

The U.S. president Donald Trump overturns a ruling that gave the federal government the authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions. The decision is met with sharp criticism from Democrats and environmental organizations.

Kritik mot Trumps klimatbeslut: ”Historisk attack”
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El Mundo
Trump revokes limits to greenhouse gas emissions

The administration ends the 2009 scientific conclusion that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well-being and deprives federal agencies of the authority to regulate.

Trump revokes limits to greenhouse gas emissions
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by Stefan Rahmstorf

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

Rollback of government’s ability to limit climate-heating pollution will make families ‘sicker and less safe’, environmental advocate says US politics live - latest updates The Trump administration has revoked the bedrock scientific determination that 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. . .

Trump’s EPA repeals landmark climate finding in gift to ‘billionaire polluters’
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by Stephen L. Brusatte

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Handelsblatt
Environment and Climate: US Scraps Assessment of the Dangers of Greenhouse Gases

Greenhouse gases threaten public health - this scientific assessment has long been a cornerstone of the United States' fight against air pollution. The environmental agency is changing that now.

Environment and Climate: US Scraps Assessment of the Dangers of Greenhouse Gases
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by Olúfẹ́mi Táíwò

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personally I'm glad we got rid of woke, it was the only way we could protect Enlightenment values
February 12, 2026 at 8:01 PM

by Barack Obama Reposted by Jonathan M. Metzl

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