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Health Care Professionals, Scientists, and Children Sue the EPA Over Recent Move

Two lawsuits challenge the agency’s reversal of a 2009 rule underpinning federal regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.

https://murica.website/2026/02/health-care-professionals-scientists-and-children-sue-the-epa-over-recent-move/

So we’re doing the un-science thing now? According to the article, six environmental/health groups (via Earthjustice) sued the EPA in the D.C. Circuit after it moved to kill the 2009 endangerment finding—arguments it says the Supreme Court rejected in 2007 (Massachusetts v. EPA). Who’s minding the litter box? 😼

https://yro.slashdot.org/story/26/02/19/0034254/epa-faces-first-lawsuit-over-its-killing-of-major-climate-rule

#EPA #Climate #CleanAirAct

HT @rmblaber1956

#EnvironmentalGroups sue #Trump’s #EPA over repeal of landmark #climate finding

Lawsuit from #health and #EnvironmentalJustice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

Dharna Noor
Wed 18 Feb 2026 07.10 EST

"More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.

"Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA’s rollback of the '#EndangermentFinding', which states that the buildup of heat-trapping #pollution in the atmosphere endangers #PublicHealth and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from #vehicles, #PowerPlants and other #industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the #ClimateCrisis.

"The suit was brought by the American Public Health Association [#APHA], #AmericanLungAssociation, the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund, the #NaturalResourcesDefenseCouncil [#NRDC], the #SierraClub and 11 other public health and environmental organizations. The lawsuit was filed by green legal organizations #CleanAirTaskForce and #Earthjustice and it names the EPA and the agency’s administrator, #LeeZeldin, as defendants.

" 'EPA’s repeal of the endangerment finding and #safeguards to limit vehicle emissions marks a complete dereliction of the agency’s mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the #CleanAirAct,' said #GretchenGoldman, president and CEO at the #UnionOfConcernedScientists, another one of the groups behind the lawsuit. 'This shameful and dangerous action by the Trump administration and EPA Administrator Zeldin is rooted in falsehoods not facts and is at complete odds with the public interest and the best available science.' "

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/kp4pY

#USPol #ClimateChange #EPAFail #ClimateCrisis #GreenhouseGas #FossilFools #FossilFuelIndustry #BigOilAndGas #CorporateColonialism #Oiligarchy #Oligarchy #CorporatePolluters

By #JohnFugelsang via #Substack - Feb 16, 2026

#Trump is a Dirty Old Whore, Wearing Too Much Makeup, Willing To Do Anything for a Dollar.

If smoke fills a room and you remove the smoke detector, congratulations — you’ve solved the beeping problem.

Not the fire.

#CleanAirAct #oil #EPA

https://johnfugelsang.substack.com/p/trump-is-a-dirty-old-whore-wearing

Trump Erased the Endangerment Finding. Here Come the Lawsuits.

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/13/climate/endangerment-finding-legal-court-lawsuits.html

President Trump announced on Thursday that his administration would scrap the endangerment finding.

"The Trump administration on Thursday revoked a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate #greenhouse gas #emissions and fight #climate change, the most aggressive move by the #Republican president to roll back climate regulations."

How #dystopian is it to revoke a #scientific finding?

#EPA #environment #cleanairact #pollution

https://www.wsbradio.com/news/health/trumps-epa-revokes/NTIOFJJE3U3WFLTXQAH3FFLPB4/

‘The #epa has said that it determined the US would save billions annually by revoking the endangerment determination.

But the agency’s analysis did not account for the money and lives saved by the environmental and public-health protections that the change would eliminate, experts say.’

#Trump
#CleanAirAct

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/12/trump-epa-rollback-pollution-regulation-endangerment-finding

What to Know About the E.P.A.’s Big Attack on Climate Regulation

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/climate/what-to-know-epa-endangerment-finding.html

E.P.A. administrator Lee Zeldin has claimed that previous administrations used the endangerment finding to justify “trillions of dollars” in regulations on polluting industries and its reversal will help the economy.

The #EndangermentFinding by the #Obama admin is the legal underpinning of nearly all #climate #regulations under the #CleanAirAct for motor vehicles, power plants & other #pollution sources that are heating the planet.
#Legal challenges are certain for an action that repeals all #GreenhouseGas #emissions standards for cars & trucks, & could unleash a broader undoing of climate regulations on stationary sources such as #power plants & #oil & #gas facilities, experts say.
#Trump #law #PublicHealth

#Trump has said he believes #ClimateChange is a hoax, & has withdrawn the #US from the #ParisAgreement, leaving the world’s largest historic contributor to #GlobalWarming out of international efforts to combat it.

The #EndangermentFinding was first adopted by the US in 2009, & led the #EPA to take action under the #CleanAirAct of 1963 to curb #emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, & 4 other heat-trapping air pollutants from vehicles, power plants & other industries.

#law #PublicHealth

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

Following three of the warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with climate tipping points and …
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #CleanAirAct #Climatechange #deregulation #deregulatory #DonaldTrump #endangermentfinding #EnvironmentalProtectionNetwork #EPA #InflationReductionAct #LeeZeldin #Massachusettsv.EPA #NRDC #SupremeCourt #Trumpadministration #UnitedStates #Us #USA
https://www.newsbeep.com/392737/

Following 3 warmest years on record, as scientists reckon with #climate #tippingpoint and grapple with escalating cost of #extremeweather and intense #wildfires, Trump admin this week is expected to formally eliminate #US gov’s role in controlling #greenhousegas #pollution.
By revoking its 17-year-old scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger #publichealth and welfare, #EPA will demolish legal underpinning of authority to act on #climatechange under #CleanAirAct.
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/02/whats-next-after-the-trump-administration-revokes-key-finding-on-climate-change/

What's next after the Trump administration revokes key finding on climate change? https://arstechni.ca/ARHA #climatechange #cleanairact #fossilfuels #pollution #Science #Trump #EPA

Trump's Iron Ore #Pollution #Exemption Is #Unlawful, Enviros Say

Environmental groups asked a D.C. federal judge to overturn a Trump administration decision to exempt low-grade iron ore #processing #facilities from new #emission #standards for #mercury and acidic #gases, alleging the president abused a provision in the #CleanAirAct. [Law360]