EPA Proposes to Remove Itself from the Climate Change Mitigation Business

Today, the Environmental Protection Agency (@epagov) released a proposal that would gut the 2009 Endangerment Finding and undermine the foundational scientific finding that global warming pollution endangers public health and the environment. At the same time, it’s repealing strong car and truck pollution limits and threatening other vital standards.

At left are the words of the president of the Union of Concerned Scientists; to say that they’re “concerned” is putting it nicely.