​AG Bonta today denounced the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) final rule rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which formally acknowledged that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles contribute to air pollution that drives climate change and endangers public health and welfare. The EPA’s withdrawal of the Endangerment Finding, which also includes a repeal of the entire federal vehicle greenhouse gas emission standards program, removes critical protections that limit vehicle emissions, even as climate change increasingly threatens human health, safety, and economic stability. In making the decision to eliminate these protections, the EPA ignores decades of scientific consensus and Supreme Court precedent, endangering the lives of hundreds of millions of Americans, particularly those in communities disproportionately impacted by environmental harms.

“Under President Trump, the EPA has been consistent in its disregard for the high cost its decisions have on human health. The repeal is not just a step backward — it is a reckless rejection of decades of scientific evidence supporting the Endangerment Finding and a violation of well-settled law, ultimately putting the fossil fuel industry’s profits ahead of the health and safety of Americans,” – AG Bonta