The Environmental Protection Agency is just days away from proposing the U.S. reverse the scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions endanger public health, overturning the legal foundation that has been the cornerstone of all policies aimed at limiting emissions and tackling climate change,

"This is a five-alarm fire." According to The New York Times, the Trump administration has drafted a proposal to rescind the EPA's 2009 "endangerment finding," a scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions pose a risk to human health and well-being.

While Trump has infamously mocked climate change as “a great hoax,” the ICJ unanimously declared that international law obliges “the protection of the climate system."

The agency’s plan to disavow its finding that greenhouse-gas emissions endanger human well-being is dispiriting, but there are workarounds.

I’m back! You’ve probably been missing all your latest ESG news, but not to worry as today’s newsletter is worth the wait. We're diving into the landmark legal opinion by the International Court of Justice which said countries must address the "urgent and existential threat" of climate change by cooperating to curb emissions.

The Trump administration wants to reverse a 2009 EPA finding that greenhouse gases endanger people. The finding is the basis for much of the United States' climate change regulations.

In a surprising move, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has prepared a plan that could remove its own power to fight climate change. This plan focuses on getting rid of an important rule from 2009 called the “endangerment finding.