The Trump administration has announced a plan to find out a landmark that greenhouse gases are harmful to the environment, seriously marking the ability of the federal government to deal with climate change.
Known as “endangered discovery”, the 2009 order of the then President Barack Obama allowed the US Environment Protection Agency (EPA) to make rules to limit pollution by setting emission standards.
The US is a major contributor to global climate change, and only in China is second in China that emit more planetary dioxide gases such as carbon dioxide-and the US still emit more per capita.
Experts have warned that the move may have a disastrous effect on the environment.
President Donald Trump has long argued that climate rules prevent US economic growth, and ordered back on their first day in the office that the EPA presents the recommendations on the “validity and sustainable projection” of the danger.
A dangerous discovery arising from a 2007 Supreme Court case in which the court ruled that greenhouse gases are “air pollutants” – meaning that EPA has the right and responsibility to regulate them under the US Clean Air Act.
In 2009, EPA took an official decision, dancing discovery that found that greenhouse gas emissions causes climate change from sources such as cars, power plants and factories.
This decision makes the core of the rights of the federal government to impose limits on carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases.
In a statement, the EPA stated that, if finally, the step will save the Americans $ 54BN (£ 40BN) at the annual cost through the dismissal of the Greenhouse gas standards, including an electric vehicle mandate passed by the biden administration.
Speaking in an episode of the conservative “Ruthless” podcast released on Tuesday, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said the move was “originally running a dagger in the heart of climate change religion”.
Zeldin stated that emission standard was a “distraction” and policy change “was an economic issue”. He said, “The cancellation of it will be the biggest delegulatory action in the history of America.”
In a previous statement to reconsider the findings in March, Zeldin said that “the Trump administration will not sacrifice for a national prosperity, energy security, and an agenda for the freedom of our people that strangles our industries, our dynamics and our consumer choice abroad.”
The new draft rule from EPA will now be under a public comment period before being subject to an inter -decisive review.
If this is successful, the rule will immediately cancel the rules that control telpy emissions from vehicles.
According to the EPA statement, the dispute of those standards would begin with those for light-duty vehicles in 2010, as well as set for moderate and heavy-duty vehicles and engines in 2011.
The EPA step is likely to face legal challenges, and some experts have questioned whether the administration will decide it through the courts.
But Richard Revesse, a former administrator of the information and regulatory affairs office in Biden administration and Professor of a law at the University of New York, told The Washington Post that the announcement would still affect the US climate change policies until a final decision is taken in the court system.
“If the danger detects the danger collapsed, it would essentially question the regulation of all or almost all EPA’s greenhouse gases,” he said.
In addition, the Governor of California was Gavin Newsom, who condemned the announcement, who accused the Trump administration of “a careless abandonment of science and law” in a joint statement with Visconsin’s Governor Tony Evers.
The statement said, “The US climate is worth knowing the truth from the federal government.”
“No amount of firing scientists buying research will change the facts: Greenhouse gas causes pollution climate change and endanger our health and well -being -” he said.
(With additional reporting from mark pointing)
