"The final EPA rule explicitly omitted the report commissioned last year to justify revoking the endangerment finding, citing “concerns raised by some commenters.”"
"When the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency rescinded its bedrock endangerment finding Thursday, it explicitly excluded a controversial report issued last year by the U.S. Department of Energy that argued the dangers of human-induced climate change were being overstated.
The EPA cited the report in announcing its intention to rescind the endangerment finding last year, but those citations were not part of the final rule.
Instead, the EPA argued that the Clean Air Act “does not authorize the Agency to prescribe emission standards in response to global climate change concerns,” despite the 2007 U.S. Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA that the agency does have that authority.
In its rule issued Thursday, EPA stated that the “legal interpretation finalized in this action means that we cannot resolve remaining scientific controversies in this regulatory context.”"
Dennis Pillion reports for Inside Climate News February 13, 2026.
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