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In 2009, during the Obama administration, the EPA found that greenhouse gases from burning fossil fuels are warming the climate and endangering public health and welfare.
Trump has called climate change a con job.
and sought to reverse President Biden's climate agenda.
The endangerment finding is the basis for regulating human-caused climate pollution from power plants, cars, and the oil and gas industry.
EPA Press Secretary Bridget Hirsch says the 43-day government shutdown this fall delayed work on rescinding the finding.
While the rulemaking was expected to wrap up by the end of the year, that likely will come in the new year now.
In a wide-ranging interview with Politico, Trump denigrated the Western European democracies that until now have been the United States' staunchest allies.
Trump said Europe doesn't know what to do.
He blamed European leaders for failing to control immigration or stopping the Russian invasion of Ukraine.
Trump is pushing Ukraine's president, Vladimir Zelensky, to accept his latest peace plan, which includes several core Russian demands.
It would force Ukraine to give up territory to Russia, put limits on Ukraine's military, and restrict the country's sovereignty.
Until recently, an EPA website labeled causes of climate change relayed the scientific consensus that humans burning fossil fuels have made the planet hotter.
Now, that same site focuses on things like volcanic activity and changes in the Earth's rotation.
EPA Press Secretary Bridget Hirsch says in a statement that the Trump EPA is focused on protecting human health and the environment, quote, not left-wing political agendas.
As such, this agency no longer takes marching orders from the climate cult, unquote.
Trump has called climate change a hoax.
The EPA says the old webpages are still available to the public via archives.