Overview
- The coalition filed a petition in the D.C. Circuit after the EPA finalized a rule last week rescinding the 2009 finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
- The repeal immediately eliminates federal greenhouse-gas standards for cars and trucks and threatens broader climate rules for power plants and oil and gas facilities, according to experts.
- Plaintiffs including the American Public Health Association, American Lung Association, NRDC, Sierra Club, EDF and others named EPA and Administrator Lee Zeldin as defendants.
- The administration calls the move the largest deregulatory action and projects more than $1 trillion in savings, while EPA argues the Clean Air Act does not authorize motor-vehicle climate rules.
- Advocates say the action is unlawful, contradicts extensive scientific evidence, will raise pollution and costs and could lead to thousands of avoidable deaths, with the dispute likely headed for Supreme Court review.