In 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency formally concluded that greenhouse gases jeopardize public health and welfare. This so-called endangerment finding became the legal foundation for a host ...

President Donald Trump’s top environmental regulator is recommending the US government scrap its formal conclusion that greenhouse gases ... sweep away the legal foundation for regulations ...

This finding determines that greenhouse gas emissions are a risk to public health, and gives the EPA a legal foundation for regulations to limit planet-warming pollution. On day one of Trump’s ...