US President Donald Trump joined by US Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, Lee Zeldin, makes an announcement in the Roosevelt Room of the White House in Washington, DC on February 12, 2026. President Donald Trump on Thursday revoked a landmark scientific finding that underpins US regulations aimed at curbing planet-warming pollution, marking the administration's most far-reaching rollback of climate policy to date. (Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP) SAUL LOEB / AFP
President Donald Trump on Thursday, February 12, revoked a landmark scientific finding that underpins US regulations aimed at curbing planet-warming pollution, marking the administration's most far-reaching rollback of climate policy to date. "This determination had no basis in fact, had none whatsoever, and no basis in law," Trump said during a White House event where he was joined by Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin.
As expected, the administration also formally scrapped greenhouse emissions standards on cars. The repeal is expected to be swiftly challenged in court. The 2009 "endangerment finding" was a determination under then-president Barack Obama that six greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare by fueling climate change.
