EPA Endangerment Finding Repeal Upends Federal Climate Regulation

In what it described as “the single largest deregulatory action in US history,” the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on February 12 repealed its finding under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health and welfare—the so-called “endangerment finding.” The decision eliminates not only federal greenhouse gas emission standards for vehicles and engines from model year 2012 forward, but also the legal foundation for...... By: Jenner & Block