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Two dozen states have sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the Trump administration's repeal of a scientific finding that had been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight human-caused climate change.
Last month, the agency acted to terminate the 2009 finding that determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten public health.
Zeldin said then that the move represented "the single largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States of America" by repealing what he described as "the holy grail of federal regulatory overreach."
The Obama-era finding had been the legal underpinning of nearly all climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other major sources of pollution that contribute to global warming.
EPA spokeswoman Brigit Hirsch said the lawsuit was "not about the law or the merits of any argument."
Instead, the plaintiffs "are clearly motivated by politics," she claimed.
The agency "carefully considered and reevaluated the legal foundation" of the 2009 finding in light of recent court decisions, including a 2022 Supreme Court ruling that limited how the clean air law can be used to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from power plants, Hirsch said.
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