The White House said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump plans to formally move on Thursday to overturn the Obama-era legal basis for federal greenhouse gas rules.
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt informed reporters that Mr. Trump will be joined at the event by Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin to make official the rescission of the 2009 findings put in place during then-President Barack Obama’s administration.
The administration originally proposed the change in July. Officials characterize the step as part of a broader deregulatory agenda designed to reduce federal constraints on fossil fuel activity. The White House described the planned action as a major rollback of existing climate change policy.
According to the administration’s description, the rescission targets the legal foundation that underpinned federal rules addressing greenhouse gas emissions under the 2009 determination. The move is presented by the White House as intended to further loosen regulations that the administration says restrict fossil fuel development.
Karoline Leavitt framed the announcement as a large deregulatory action. The planned reversal follows a series of regulatory rollbacks and other steps taken by the administration that the White House says are aimed at freeing fossil fuel production from regulatory constraints and that have the effect, as described by officials, of slowing the rollout of clean energy.
President Trump has publicly said he believes climate change is a hoax, and the administration has withdrawn the United States from international efforts to address the issue. Leavitt noted the planned formalization at the upcoming event as a continuation of the administration’s policy direction.
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The White House announcement signals the administration’s intent to remove the 2009 findings from the federal regulatory framework for greenhouse gases. The event on Thursday is scheduled to make that rescission public, with EPA leadership participating in the announcement.