“Climate change is real,” U.S. Rep. Tom Suozzi said multiple times at a news conference Tuesday, Feb. 16, just days after the federal government rescinded the 2009 “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.
President Trump and the Environmental Protection Agency announced the deregulatory action Feb. 12, which eliminates federal greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and trucks and could open the door to undoing regulations on stationary sources such as power plants and oil and gas facilities.
