Three dozen states and local governments have challenged the Trump administration’s reversal of a landmark Obama-era scientific ruling which held that greenhouse gases were a threat to public health.
The lawsuit seeks to overturn the administration’s repeal last month of the 2009 “endangerment finding” that underpins US policies aimed at lowering emissions from cars, power plants and other sources of planet-warming emissions.
Several environmental organisations filed a similar lawsuit last month.
President Donald Trump touted the climate change rollback as a major achievement, calling it a victory over the Democratic Party’s “radical” energy and climate policies. See More In Details…