But the Trump administration is working to change that.
The Environmental Protection Agency is working to rescind a 2009 declaration that declared that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
The so-called “endangerment finding” is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations under the Clean Air Act for motor vehicles, power plants and other sources of energy.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has called for a rewrite of the endangerment finding as part of a series of environmental rollbacks announced at the same time in what Zeldin said was "the greatest day of deregulation in American history.'' A total of 31 key environmental rules on topics from clean air to clean water and climate change would be rolled back or repealed under Zeldin's plan.
He singled out the endangerment finding as “the Holy Grail of the climate change religion” and said he was thrilled to end it “as the EPA does its part to usher in the Golden Age of American success.''
