EPA moves to repeal landmark finding that greenhouse gases pose public health threat

Despite decades of evidence about the dangers of climate change, the Environmental Protection Agency announced Tuesday that it wants to repeal its landmark 2009 finding that greenhouse gases pose a public threat. CBS News national environmental correspondent David Schechter explains the implications of the move. [title_words_as_hashtags

EPA to revoke

The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to revoke a key scientific finding it published 16 years ago that six greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Known as the “endangerment finding,” it is the 2009 scientific basis for which the EPA has regulated greenhouse gas…