Trump’s EPA Chief Targets Key Climate Rule

Lee Zeldin, Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), has called on the Trump Administration in private recommendations that the White House re-write the so-called endangerment finding, the foundation for U.S. climate rules, sources familiar with the matter told Bloomberg on Wednesday. The endangerment finding from 2009 is the U.S. federal government’s formal conclusion that greenhouse gases harm the public and cause climate change. This finding has acted as the legal foundation for many U.S. laws and regulations aimed…