AUSTIN, TEXAS - JULY 30: Vehicles travel along Interstate 35 on July 30, 2025 in Austin, Texas. Under the Trump administration, the EPA is seeking to repeal past findings that greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health. The action is in part to the Trump administration's broader plan to expand oil, natural gas and coal production.   Brandon Bell/Getty Images/AFP (Photo by Brandon Bell / GETTY IMAGES NORTH AMERICA / Getty Images via AFP)
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Firstpost11-02-2026, 06:38

Trump to Scrap Key Climate Ruling, Unleashing Sweeping Deregulation

  • Trump administration plans to overturn an Obama-era scientific finding that carbon dioxide endangers human health.
  • This move would remove the legal basis for federal greenhouse gas emissions regulations, marking the most sweeping climate policy rollback to date.
  • The repeal, to be unveiled this week by the EPA, would apply to car emission standards but not stationary sources.
  • The EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin reportedly called it "the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States."
  • The repeal is expected to face significant legal challenges, as a federal court already ruled against a related advisory group.

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