{"id":2994,"date":"2025-07-30T04:05:23","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:05:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/2025\/07\/trump-epa-sabotages-climate-action-with-rollbacks-of-tailpipe-rules-endangerment-finding\/"},"modified":"2025-07-30T04:05:23","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:05:23","slug":"trump-epa-sabotages-climate-action-with-rollbacks-of-tailpipe-rules-endangerment-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/?p=2994","title":{"rendered":"Trump EPA Sabotages Climate Action With Rollbacks of Tailpipe Rules, Endangerment Finding"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency today rolled back tailpipe pollution standards and rescinded the landmark scientific finding that planet-heating pollution harms public health and welfare, which is a foundation of federal climate action.<\/p>\n

Both the Biden EPA standards to reduce pollution from cars and trucks and the Obama EPA\u2019s 2009 endangerment finding were based on overwhelming scientific evidence that has only become more robust<\/a>. The proposals, if adopted, will create more pollution and lock in more damage to our air and climate in the future.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis cynical one-two punch allows Trump\u2019s Flat Earth EPA to slam the brakes on reducing auto pollution and ignore urgent warnings from the world\u2019s leading scientists about the need for climate action,\u201d said Dan Becker, director of the Center for Biological Diversity\u2019s Safe Climate Transport Campaign. \u201cBy revoking this key scientific finding Trump is putting fealty to Big Oil over sound science and people\u2019s health. These proposals are a giant gift to oil companies that will do real damage to people, wildlife and future generations. The administration can\u2019t even pretend the science facts have changed. It\u2019s purely a political bow to the oil industry.\u201d<\/p>\n

Revoking life-saving clean air standards that slash auto pollution will allow automakers to make cars that guzzle more gas and pollute more. Rescinding the endangerment finding will make it harder for federal agencies to take steps that cut heat-trapping greenhouse gas pollution from cars, trucks, power plants, factories and agriculture.<\/p>\n

The administration falsely claims that U.S. pollution doesn\u2019t matter. The United States is the second-largest<\/a> carbon polluter in the world after China, and the largest historical emitter<\/a> of greenhouse gasses. The U.S. emitted<\/a> 11% of the world\u2019s greenhouse gases in 2021, and during Trump\u2019s first term his administration admitted that emissions in excess of 3% were \u201csignificant.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is the most pro-combustion administration since Nero. Trump is delivering higher gas pump sales to Big Oil and higher gas pump costs and unhealthy air to us and our kids,\u201d said Becker. \u201cTo famous lies like \u2018cigarettes don\u2019t cause cancer,\u2019 we can now add Trump\u2019s claim that pollution from millions of cars is healthier than rules cleaning them up. Trump\u2019s lies have serious consequences, and this one is far worse than taking a Sharpie to a hurricane map. Generations of Americans will suffer because of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The vehicle rules Trump plans to scrap would cut 7 billion metric tons of emissions<\/a> and saved the average American driver $6,000 in fuel and maintenance costs<\/a> over the lifetimes of the vehicles made under the standards.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe EPA is revoking the biggest single step any nation has taken to save oil, save consumers money at the pump and combat global warming. The Trump administration\u2019s actions will worsen heart and lung disease, sicken kids with asthma, and stoke deadly wildfires, storms and floods,\u201d Becker said. \u201cIt\u2019s outrageous to justify this recklessness with the ridiculous claim that cutting planet-warming pollution is more expensive than the billions it will cost consumers at the pump and the hospital because of climate devastation. We\u2019ll fight them every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President Trump\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency today rolled back tailpipe pollution standards and rescinded the landmark scientific finding that planet-heating pollution harms public health and welfare, which is a foundation of federal climate action. Both the Biden EPA standards to reduce pollution from cars and trucks and the Obama EPA\u2019s 2009 endangerment finding were based on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"registered_only","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[742],"class_list":["post-2994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ciencia-y-tecnologia","tag-vr-news-net"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vr-news.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}