EPA’s Zeldin unveils plan to kill rule that curbs vehicle air pollution
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Adrianne Appel2025-07-30T15:56:00
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has placed a decades-old rule that limits air pollution from cars and trucks on the chopping block, potentially endangering the Clean Air Act.
Lee Zeldin, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), announced the potential decision Tuesday while touring an auto dealership in Indiana.
The 2009 “endangerment finding” is a scientific conclusion that carbon dioxide (CO2), and other greenhouse gases emitted by vehicles and other fossil fuel burning lead to a warming climate, which places the planet in danger. The Clean Air Act was built on the 2009 finding.
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