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Endangerment Finding

Climate Activists Stage Mock Funeral for Landmark Climate Rule

The Trump EPA’s repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding revokes the agency’s authority to regulate climate pollution. Environmental activists are mourning the loss while vowing to resurrect it.

By Liza Gross

 “Lamentors” wear sackcloth and ash, mourning the Trump administration’s decision to overturn a landmark climate regulation rule, outside EPA Region 9 headquarters in San Francisco on Tuesday. Credit: ProBonoPhoto.org/Rachel Podlishevsky
Lee Zeldin, keynote speaker at the Heartland Institute’s 16th International Conference on Climate Change, thanks attendees for electing Donald Trump. Credit: Gabriel Castilho/Inside Climate News

Zeldin Celebrates Endangerment Finding Repeal With Climate Skeptics

By Gabriel Matias Castilho
A view of the stacks at the coal-fired Mill Creek Generating Station on Feb. 14 in Louisville, Ky. Environmental and health groups have sued the Trump administration to block its repeal of the endangerment finding, which concluded that greenhouses gases endanger public health. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Scientists, Engineers and Legal Experts Condemn Partisan Attack on Scientific Reference Manual for Judges

By Liza Gross
Water quality expert Bob Bowcock tests a creek for cancer-causing PFAS “forever chemicals” at a property in Dalton, Ga., on June 12, 2025. Credit: Issam Ahmed/AFP via Getty Images

Former EPA Staff Detail Expanding Pollution Risks Under Trump

By Liza Gross
A view of the coal-fired Mill Creek Generating Station in Louisville, Ky., on Feb. 14. Credit: Jon Cherry/Getty Images

Health and Climate Consequences of EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal ‘Cannot Be Overstated’

Interview by Jenni Doering, Living on Earth
Georges Benjamin, executive director of the American Public Health Association, speaks at the Health Action Conference on Jan. 22 in Washington, D.C. The American Public Health Association is among several health organizations involved in the suit. Credit: Paul Morigi/Getty Images for Community Catalyst

Healthcare Professionals, Scientists and Children Sue the EPA for Backtracking on Greenhouse Gas Regulation

By Anika Jane Beamer
Employees walk into the U.S. Department of Energy building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images

Trump Administration Dropped Controversial Climate Report From Its Decision to Rescind EPA Endangerment Finding

By Dennis Pillion
Chevrolet Equinox EVs sit at a dealership in Southfield, Mich., on Oct. 29, 2025. Credit: Bill Pugliano/Getty Images

The First Casualty of Trump’s Climate Action Repeal: The U.S. EV Transition

By Marianne Lavelle, Dan Gearino
President Donald Trump speaks alongside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin during an event announcing the rollback of the endangerment finding at the White House on Thursday. Credit: Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images

‘We Will See Them in Court’: Environmental Lawyers Vow to Challenge Trump’s Repeal of Key Climate Finding

By Kiley Bense
The photo in the White House shows other administration officials and coal miners.

As the Trump EPA Prepares to Revoke Key Legal Finding on Climate Change, What Happens Next?

By Marianne Lavelle
A coal fuel supply train sits adjacent to the stacks of the coal-fired units at the W.A. Parish Generating Station in Richmond, Texas. Credit: Kirk Sides/Houston Chronicle via Getty Images

Trump Will Order Defense Department to Buy Coal Power

By Phil McKenna
In North Carolina, Charlotte, and Mecklenburg County, remained just under the wire to comply with health-based standards for ozone, as measured over the last three years. Credit: Education Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images

N.C. Regulators Say Trump’s Proposed Repeal of the Endangerment Finding Would Increase ‘Criteria’ Air Pollutants

By Lisa Sorg

Disinformation on Steroids: Climate Science Takes It on the Chin

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Children speak alongside lawmakers at a press conference in the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday. Source: Screengrab from Sen. Ed Markey livestream

Children Plead With U.S. Lawmakers to Protect EPA’s Endangerment Finding

By Carl David Goette-Luciak
Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) speaks during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in the Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday in Washington, D.C. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

Sen. Whitehouse Launches Investigation into Industry Groups’ Influence on Endangerment Finding Repeal

By Aidan Hughes
Vehicles travel along Interstate 35 on July 30 in Austin, Texas. Credit: Brandon Bell/Getty Images

Commenters Decry Proposed Repeal of Endangerment Finding in First Day of Public Hearings

By Aidan Hughes
Then Massachusetts Attorney General Tom Reilly speaks to reporters outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 29, 2006, as states argued against the EPA’s inaction on global warming. Credit: Brendan Smialowski/Getty Images

Will Endangerment Finding Repeal Trigger New State Actions on Climate?

By Marianne Lavelle
The National Academy of Sciences building in Washington, D.C. Credit: Saul Loeb/AFP via Getty Images

National Academies Will Review Endangerment Finding Science

By Marianne Lavelle
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin speaks during a cabinet meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House on July 8. Credit: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images

EPA Rescinds Finding That Greenhouse Gas Emissions Harm Human Health, Hobbling U.S. Climate Action

By Wyatt Myskow

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