Top News | In Gift to Big Oil, Trump Halts EPA Fight Against ‘Most Terrible Environmental Threat in Human History’
Thursday, February 12, 2026 ■ Today's Top News In Gift to Big Oil Donors, Trump Stops EPA From Combating 'Most Terrible Environmental Threat in Human History' Repealing the EPA's endangerment finding "isn’t about saving taxpayers’ money, it’s about saving an industry that has already been exposed as a permanent danger to American families," said the head of 350.org. By Stephen Prager In what the Sierra Club described as an act to “formalize climate denialism as official government policy,” the Trump administration announced Thursday that it has revoked the long-standing “endangerment finding” that allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to pass regulations fighting the climate crisis . The 2009 endangerment finding determined that the emissions of carbon dioxide, methane , and other greenhouse gases posed a hazard to public health and welfare by causing the planet to warm dramatically, citing overwhelmin...