by Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow
New York Times
The agency is racing to repeal a scientific finding that requires it to fight global warming. Experts say the goal is to get the matter before the justices while President Trump is still in office.
It is often said in Washington that Donald Trump’s advisers, cabinet members and allies are playing to an audience of one: the president.
But Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, appears to be playing to an audience of six: the conservative justices on the Supreme Court.
On Thursday, Mr. Zeldin will move to repeal a scientific determination that requires the federal government to combat climate change, according to Karoline Leavitt, the White House press secretary. The action will have taken just over a year to finalize, a remarkably rapid pace for an agency that typically spends at least three years on such efforts…
“The goal is not just to rescind the endangerment finding, it’s to overturn Massachusetts v. E.P.A. and make sure this cannot come back, unless Congress decides to get involved,” said Steven J. Milloy, the founder of a website that has disputed the scientific consensus on climate change. “Anything else is not good enough.”
