In the latest of Trump administration rollbacks of climate and environmental safeguards, the Environmental Protection Agency rescinded the landmark endangerment finding underpinning a wave of federal policies aimed at climate change. The EPA will now seek to erase limits on emissions from cars, power plants and other industries.
Bracewell’s Jeff Holmstead, who served as head of EPA’s air office under President George W. Bush, told The Washington Post that for now, the only legal impact will be to immediately eliminate greenhouse gas standards on the nation’s cars and trucks.
Holmstead added, “If the legal reasoning that they proposed to rely on for revoking the endangerment finding is upheld in court, no future EPA will be able to regulate CO2 emissions.”
