• In alawsuitfiled Wednesday, the Environmental Protection Agency was accused of abandoning its mission to protect public health afterrepealing an “endangerment finding"that hasserved as the basis for federal climate change regulationsfor 17 years. • The lawsuit came from more than a dozen environmental and health groups, including the American Public Health Association, the American Lung Association, the Center for Biological Diversity (CBD), the Clean Air Council, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), the Sierra Club, and the Union of Concerned Scientists. • The groups have asked the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to review the EPA decision, which also eliminated requirements controlling greenhouse gas emissions in new cars and trucks. • Urging a return to the status quo, the groups argued that the Trump administration is anti-science and illegally moving to benefit the fossil fuel industry, despite a mountain of evidence demonstrating the deadly consequences of unchecked pollution and climate change-induced floods, droughts, wildfires, and hurricanes. • “Undercutting the ability of the federal government to tackle the largest source of climate pollution is deadly serious,” Meredith Hankins, legal director for federal climate at NRDC, said in anEDF roundupof statements from plaintiffs. • The science is overwhelmingly clear, the groups argued, despite the Trump EPA attempting to muddy the waters by forming asince-disbandedworking group of climate contrarians.

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  • A coalition of more than a dozen environmental and health groups has sued the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after the agency repealed its 17‑year‑old “endangerment finding,” which had justified federal climate‑change regulations. The plaintiffs argue that the repeal removes greenhouse‑gas limits on new cars and trucks, undermines public‑health protections, and benefits the fossil‑fuel industry. They request the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit to restore the status quo, citing the Trump administration’s anti‑science stance and the EPA’s claim that the deregulation will save Americans over $1.3 trillion by 2055.

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