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Trump’s climate policy rollback plan relies on EPA rescinding its 2009 endangerment finding – but will courts allow it?

  • Written by Gary W. Yohe, Professor of Economics and Environmental Studies, Wesleyan University
imageTrucks leave a smoggy Port of Long Beach in 2008, the year before the endangerment finding was released.Luis Sinco/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images

In 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency formally declared that greenhouse gas emissions, including from vehicles and fossil fuel power plants, endanger public health and welfare. The...

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