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ESA Climate Rulings Could Thwart Any EPA Reversal Of GHG Risk Finding

February 22, 2018
A growing number of appellate court rulings are upholding federal decisions to list species as threatened under the Endangered Species Act (ESA) because climate change is degrading their habitat, a dynamic that one attorney says could further undermine any Trump EPA effort to take regulatory action at odds with mainstream climate science. Chief among those efforts would be an attempt to reverse EPA's landmark 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding that forms the basis of all of its climate rules, a...


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