U.S. President Donald Trump is set this week to scrap a landmark scientific finding that greenhouse gases jeopardise public health by driving climate change — the bedrock of U.S. regulations to curb planet-warming pollution.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) last summer proposed reversing the so-called “endangerment finding” of 2009, in the administration’s latest boost to the fossil fuel industry.
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“On Thursday, President Trump will be joined by (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalise the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told a news briefing Tuesday (February 10, 2026).
“This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulation.”
