Trump set to repeal landmark climate finding in huge regulatory rollback this week

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

50% : THE TRUMP administration is set this week to overturn an Obama-era scientific finding that serves as the legal basis for federal greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said on Monday.
49% : Last month, the American Petroleum Institute said it supported a repeal of the endangerment finding for vehicles but said it should be left in place for stationary sources, which would require the EPA to regulate the potent greenhouse gas called methane from the oil and gas sector.
46% : " On Jan. 30, a federal court ruled that the Department of Energy violated the law when it formed a climate science advisory group whose report was meant to support the EPA's repeal of the endangerment finding, potentially making the final rule vulnerable to legal challenges.
45% : The Wall Street Journal reported on Monday that the repeal is expected to be published later this week, and cited EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin saying it would amount to "the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States.
24% : Repealing the so-called endangerment finding, a scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, would remove the legal foundation for broader greenhouse gas regulation and would mark the Trump administration's most wide-reaching climate policy rollback.
19% : An EPA spokesperson said the endangerment finding was used by the Obama and Biden administrations to "justify trillions of dollars of greenhouse gas regulations covering new vehicles and engines.

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