CleanTechnica | Whether The Endangerment Finding Stays Or Goes Will Be Up To The Supreme Court
February 14, 2026
This week, the US government officially eliminated the “endangerment finding” that has been embedded in federal policy since 2009. In simple terms, it says that too much carbon dioxide is a threat to the environment, which means reasonable steps may be taken to reduce how much of it gets pumped into the atmosphere by industrial operations and motor vehicles.
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“I think that that’s going to be hotly contested,” said Amanda Lineberry, a senior associate at the Georgetown Climate Center and former environmental lawyer in the Department of Justice. “That’s a delicate needle to thread.”