“The White House rejects climate science and opens the door to more pollution”, is sorry The Guardian. Donald Trump repealed the “report of danger”a text adopted in 2009 under the presidency of Barack Obama, stipulating that “the accumulation of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endangers public health and well-being”.
It is on the basis of this text that the Federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could “limit pollutant emissions contributing to global warming from vehicles, power plants and other industrial sources”while “transportation is the main source of climate pollution in the United States”explains the British daily.
“We are officially putting an end to this alleged finding of dangerousness”trumpeted the American president Thursday from the White House, calling this policy “disastrous”. According to him, these regulations had not “nothing to do with public health” et “It was all a scam, a huge scam”.
“Cultural war”
“Under the leadership of a president who calls climate change a ‘prank’the administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong and that a warmer planet poses no threat., comments The New York Times.
She thus rejects “facts accepted for decades by presidents of both parties, including Richard Nixon, whose top adviser warned of the dangers of climate change, and the first President George Bush, a signatory to an international climate treaty”underlines the New York daily.
“Although expected – Washington having withdrawn from the Paris Agreement once again with Trump’s return to the White House – this announcement nevertheless constitutes a major blow to global efforts to combat climate change”, judge The Country.
“Not only does Trump’s decision completely upend the foundations of climate regulation in the United States, it also impacts the electric vehicle industry, a sector in which the country once considered competing with China”observes the Spanish daily.
In summary, it is indeed a “coup de grace” what it is, and “the official confirmation of the Trump administration’s climate skepticism, another front in its vast cultural war”writes the Madrid title.
Obama criticizes the decision
An opinion shared by The Washington Postwho believes that Thursday’s announcement “represents much more than just another episode in Trump’s long list of setbacks on climate and environmental protection”.
“Rather, it marks the culmination of years of efforts by conservative and industry groups to undermine the very foundation of federal regulations limiting greenhouse gases and to prevent future administrations from reinstating them after Trump.”analyzes the American newspaper.
Former President Barack Obama, generally speaking little about the current tenant of the White House, “blasted” the decision on its social networks, according to USA Today.
Without the text “which served as the basis for vehicle emissions limits and rules for power plants”writes Mr. Obama on “we will be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change – all so that the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.”
Legal fight
But resistance is being organized: “We are going to take this fight to court and we are going to win”, declared to Politico Manish Bapna, chairman of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), at a rally Wednesday outside EPA headquarters.
As for Joe Goffman, who led the EPA’s Office of Air Quality during the Biden administration and wrote much of the now-repealed climate regulations, he “mocked the Trump administration’s arguments to justify suppressing this conclusion”.
“Asking Americans to believe that climate pollution no longer poses a danger is, frankly, absurd”he tells the site. “It is all the more absurd because it asks us to deny what we see with our own eyes”.
But for Jeff Holmstead, a lawyer specializing in energy law and former senior EPA official during the George W. Bush administration, a fight in court is exactly what Donald Trump wants, who hopes to see the case ultimately land before the Supreme Court, with a conservative majority.
Because if the repeal of the law by the Trump administration is “confirmed by the courts, no environmental protection agency (EPA) will be able to regulate carbon dioxide emissions”, he declares to CNN. Congress would then have to adopt “a new law specifically tasking the EPA with regulating climate pollution, but there is little bipartisan consensus on this issue”he notes.
date: 2026-02-13 06:37:00