In a major blow to longstanding US climate policy, the Trump administration revoked the Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding, which has underpinned the EPA’s authority to regulate climate pollution from the oil and gas industry,

“President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control ...

The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging heat waves, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather.