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Trump Scraps Landmark Greenhouse Gas Rule, Weakening Fight Against Climate Change Trump Scraps Landmark Greenhouse Gas Rule, Weakening Fight Against Climate Change
Trump Scraps Landmark Greenhouse Gas Rule, Weakening Fight Against Climate Change President Donald Trump has repealed the federal government's long-held conclusion that greenhouse gases warm the Earth and threaten human health, a move that contradicts decades of scientific consensus. The Trump administration rescinded the Environmental Protection Agency's 2009 "endangerment finding" on Thursday, Feb. 12. The legal determination declared that gases such as carbon dioxide and methane endanger public health and contribute to climate change. At a White House news conference, Trump called the rule a "disastrous Obama-era policy" and claimed that it hurt the auto ind…

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