Trashing EPA's endangerment finding would be tough

Scott Waldman, E&E News reporter
Tuesday, July 18, 2017
In a Washington where climate change is again a hot debate topic, there is one bulwark of climate science that may be impossible for critics to tear down.
The endangerment finding is perhaps the most forceful presence of climate science in President Trump's Washington, one backed by a Supreme Court decision and arguably harder to take on than any other climate issue the administration has fought.
Although U.S. EPA under Scott Pruitt has targeted climate regulations at a rapid pace, the endangerment finding — EPA's 2009 determination that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare — is a building block upon which they could be reconstructed in a post-Trump era.