Washington – Administration of President Donald Trump on Tuesday proposed to repeal a scientific discovery, which has long been the central foundation of American actions to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.
Proposed Environmental Protection Agency The rule would cancel the 2009 statement, which stated that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health and social welfare.
“Finding a threat” is the legal grounds for many climate regulations based on the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other sources of pollution that heat the planet.
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EPA LEE ZELDIN Administrator He announced the proposed change of the podcast principle before the official announcement on Tuesday in Indiana.
Realizing the statement of the threat “will be the greatest deregulatory action in the history of America,” said Zeldin in ruthless podcast.
“There are people who are ready to go bankrupt the country in the name of climate change,” said Zeldin. “They created this discovery of a threat, and then they are able to put all these provisions regarding vehicles, aircraft, on stationary sources, to fundamentally regulate blurred, in many cases many segments of our economy. And it costs Americans a lot of money.”
The EPA proposal must go through a long review process, including a public comment before it is finalized, probably next year. Environmental groups will probably challenge a change in the rules in court.
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Zeldin called for a threat to rewrite in March A series of environmental withdrawals Announced at the same time, which he said, was “the largest day of deregulation in the history of America.” 31 Key environmental rules On topics from pristine air to pristine water and climate change will be reversed or repealed as part of Zeldin’s plan.
He distinguished the statement of threat as “the Holy Grail of religion climate change” and said that he was excited, that “like Epa does his role to initiate the golden age of American success.”
Rear pipe emission limits were also recognized
It is also expected that EPA requires reference to emission limits from the tail pipe, which have been designed to encourage car manufacturers to build and sell more electric vehicles. The transport sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.
Environmental groups have stated that Zeldin’s action denies reality when the weather tightened by climate change continues in the USA and around the world.
“When the Americans narrow before deadly floods and heat waves, the Trump administration tries to argue that emissions from turbocharging these disasters are not a threat,” said Christy Goldfuss, executive director of the Natural Resources Defense Council. “Frages the mind and threatens the security and well -being of the nation.”
For Zeldin and Trump, “EPA wants to avoid liability for protection against climate pollution, but science and law speak differently,” she added. “If EPA finalizes this illegal and cynical approach, we’ll see them in court.”
The three former EPA leaders also criticized Zeldin, saying that his March announcement focused on finding a threat and other rules threatened the lives of millions of Americans and abandoned the agency’s double mission in the field of environmental protection and human health.
“If there is a discovery of a threat that can be found anywhere, it should be found in this administration, because what they do is so contradictory what the Environmental Protection Agency is about,” Christine Todd Whitman, who directed EPA under the president of republican George W. Bush, after Zeldin’s plan was published publicly.
EPA proposal is followed by executive order From Trump, who ordered the agency to submit a report “on the subject of legality and the constant possibility of applying” the threat.
Conservatives and some Republicans of the Congress hailed the initial plan, calling it a way to withdraw the harmful economic principles of regulating greenhouse gases.
But environmental groups, legal experts and democrats said that any attempt to repeal or withdraw a threat would be uphill with a little chance of success. The discovery took place two years after the Supreme Court’s decision in 2007, the recognition that EPA is entitled to regulate greenhouse gases as air pollution under the Clean Air Act.
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David Doniger, an climate expert in the GDR, accused Trump’s republican administration of the exploit of a potential repeal of the threat as a “killing shot” that would allow him to make all climate regulations. If it was finalized from the determination of a measurable restriction of greenhouse gas pollution from cars, factories, power plants and other sources and could prevent future administration to direct the climate.
“Finding a threat is a legal basis, which is the basis for the necessary protection for millions of people against serious threats of climate change, and the standards of clean car and trucks are among the most important and effective security to take care of the largest American source of climate pollution,” said Peter Zalzal, deputy vice president of the Environmental Protection Fund.
“Attacking these protections is obviously inconsistent with the obligation of EPA for protecting health and well-being of Americans,” he said. “It is soulless, dangerous and a violation of our government’s responsibility for protecting the American nation against this destructive pollution.”
Conrad Schneider, senior director at Clean Air Task Force, said that Trump’s administration “uses the provisions on pollution as a scapegoat in his defective approach to affordability” and reliability.
He and other supporters “are terrified that the administration, who claims that he cares for cleaner, healthier and safer air, is trying to dismantle the security required for these conditions,” said Schneider.
