• A coalition of 17 environmental groups have filed suit against the EPA’s recent illegal attacks on clean air and climate science, pointing out that the rule will raise American energy costs by $1.4 trillion by the EPA’s own numbers, in addition to massive health and environmental costs. • To catch up, EPA recently moved to delete climate science by claiming that greenhouse gases, which are harmful to human health, are not air pollutants and therefore cannot be regulated by the EPA. • It finalized that rule last week, despite a massive public outcry of over half a million comments opposing this move, including from not just consumers but from the business community. • This came in the form of rescinding the “endangerment finding,” a 2009 rule which correctly claimed that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health, in keeping with current science on this topic. • The endangerment finding was a reaction to a Supreme Court decision which found that the US 1963 Clean Air Act requires the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases. • Since that finding, it has been treated as settled law by both courts and Congress.
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