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Donald Trump allegedly solicited $1 billion from oil and gas executives at a Mar-a-Lago dinner in exchange for favorable policy changes.
A successful repeal of the EPA's endangerment finding would undermine the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions from power plants and methane from oil and gas operations.
The Trump administration has dismantled the Inflation Reduction Act, the primary US law providing financial incentives for clean energy investments.
The Trump administration is using the permitting system to make it nearly impossible to build clean energy projects, particularly offshore wind and solar.
The U.S. Supreme Court has affirmed three times in the last 15-20 years that the EPA has the authority under the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
The Trump administration argues that the social cost of carbon should be valued at zero in regulatory cost-benefit analyses.
The Trump administration is prioritizing the interests of the oil and gas industry over the American public in its environmental policy decisions.
The 2009 endangerment finding legally required the federal government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions as pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
The Department of Energy recently released a report challenging established climate science, which was widely criticized and prompted a strong rebuttal from the National Academies of Sciences.
The Trump administration's economic analysis of climate regulations only considers costs to industry while assigning a value of zero to public health and environmental benefits.
The Trump administration claims that eliminating the Biden administration's vehicle emission rules will save the auto industry $1.3 trillion.
Oil and gas industry trade associations did not strongly advocate for the repeal of the EPA's endangerment finding due to concerns about regulatory uncertainty.