Unsurprising: Dem States Sue EPA Over Ending Endangerment Finding

What took them so long? I figured the suit would have been the next day

US states sue Trump EPA over decision to repeal bedrock climate finding

A coalition of 24 states, alongside a dozen cities and counties, has sued the Trump administration over its decision to revoke the bedrock scientific determination underpinning virtually all US climate regulations.

The new lawsuit, filed in the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit on Thursday, is being led by the states of Massachusetts, California, New York and Connecticut. It argues that the Environmental Protection Agency’s February rescission of the 2009 endangerment finding – which the White House described as the “single largest deregulatory action in US history” – was illegal.

“When the federal government abandons the law and the science, everyday people suffer the consequences,” Andrea Joy Campbell, the Massachusetts attorney general, said in an emailed statement.

The finding was, shocker, not law. It was a rule passed by the EPA, one not required by any law. Rules can be done away with. Every state, city, and county involved, has a Democrat governor and AG (like NC) or is heavily liberals

The lawsuit seeks to reinstate the endangerment finding, which found that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare, and formed the basis for climate standards on cars, power plants, and other sources of greenhouse gas pollution. It also aims to reverse a related move from the EPA to repeal all limits on standards for planet-warming emissions from motor vehicles.

The rule was political, not science based.

When repealing the endangerment finding, the EPA claimed that the US Clean Air Act does not apply to carbon dioxide and other planet-warming pollutants. The law is only meant to regulate pollution “that harms health or the environment through local and regional exposure”, the agency argued.

You know what I’m not seeing in this article or others? An actual rational for the suit. Look at the link for “lawsuit” above: they just ask the court to review, for no reason. Read it. I’ve read it multiple times. The majority of the suit is the rescission, and asking for review.