New York Times, By Lisa Friedman Reporting from Washington

Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change

The Environmental Protection Agency repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.

Feb. 12, 2026

Updated 5:49 p.m. ET

President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.

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