The Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) revocation of the endangerment finding would have the immediate effect of sweeping aside two rules meant to lower greenhouse gases from cars and trucks. Other climate rules would need to be undone through rulemaking, and the loss of the endangerment finding could make that easier.
“EPA would still have to issue a rule to deal with the Biden [carbon dioxide] standards for power plants,” Bracewell’s Jeff Holmstead, who served as EPA air chief under President George W. Bush, told E&E News. “But it certainly would strengthen the case for doing that.”
