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#EnvironmentalGroups sue #Trump’s #EPA over repeal of landmark #climate finding

Lawsuit from #health and #EnvironmentalJustice groups challenges the EPA’s rollback of the ‘endangerment finding’

Dharna Noor
Wed 18 Feb 2026 07.10 EST

"More than a dozen health and environmental justice non-profits have sued the Environmental Protection Agency over its revocation of the legal determination that underpins US federal climate regulations.

"Filed in Washington DC circuit court, the lawsuit challenges the EPA’s rollback of the '#EndangermentFinding', which states that the buildup of heat-trapping #pollution in the atmosphere endangers #PublicHealth and welfare and has allowed the EPA to limit those emissions from #vehicles, #PowerPlants and other #industrial sources since 2009. The rollback was widely seen as a major setback to US efforts to combat the #ClimateCrisis.

"The suit was brought by the American Public Health Association [#APHA], #AmericanLungAssociation, the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity, the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund, the #NaturalResourcesDefenseCouncil [#NRDC], the #SierraClub and 11 other public health and environmental organizations. The lawsuit was filed by green legal organizations #CleanAirTaskForce and #Earthjustice and it names the EPA and the agency’s administrator, #LeeZeldin, as defendants.

" 'EPA’s repeal of the endangerment finding and #safeguards to limit vehicle emissions marks a complete dereliction of the agency’s mission to protect people’s health and its legal obligation under the #CleanAirAct,' said #GretchenGoldman, president and CEO at the #UnionOfConcernedScientists, another one of the groups behind the lawsuit. 'This shameful and dangerous action by the Trump administration and EPA Administrator Zeldin is rooted in falsehoods not facts and is at complete odds with the public interest and the best available science.' "

Read more:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/feb/18/trump-epa-environment-climate-lawsuit

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/kp4pY

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Nestlé, a company “responsible for twice the methane emissions of Switzerland’s entire livestock sector” has recently quietly removed themselves from the Dairy Methane Action Alliance, relaxing their environmental and social commitments.

https://wickedleeks.riverford.co.uk/features/wl-glossary/wl-glossary-4-corporate-commitments

#BoycottNestle #VoteWithYourWallet #Nestle #ChangingMarketsFoundation #Methane #WickedLeeks #DairyMethaneActionAlliance #EnvironmentalDefenseFund

EPA Plan Would Weaken Safeguards Against Toxic Chemicals in Everyday Products

https://murica.website/2025/09/epa-plan-would-weaken-safeguards-against-toxic-chemicals-in-everyday-products/

Group of ≥ 85 #scientists have issued rebuttal 2 recent #DoE reprt abt #ClimateChange: full of errors, misrepresenting #ClimateScience

This comes weeks aftr Union of Concerned Scientists and the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund filed lawsuit against #Trump admin that alleges that #Energy Secretary #ChrisWright "quietly arranged for 5 hand-picked climate change skeptics" 2 compile gov's climate report & violated law by creating report in secret w/ authors "of only 1 viewpoint."

https://www.npr.org/2025/09/02/nx-s1-5521384/energy-report-scientists-climate-change

Google teams up with Environmental Defense Fund to monitor methane emissions using MethaneSAT satellite aboard SpaceX rocket soon. 🛰🌎
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#Google #EnvironmentalDefenseFund #MethaneSAT #satellitetechnology #AI #climateaction #methaneemissions #greenhousegas #globalmethanepledge #climatechange
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Read the full story: https://sustainabilityeconomicsnews.com/tech-and-innovation/google-to-help-track-methane-polluters-from-space/

A new #satellite will use #Google’s #AI to map #methane leaks from #space, a collaboration with the nonprofit #EnvironmentalDefenseFund
It could help to form the most detailed portrait yet of methane #emissions—but companies and countries will actually have to act on the data. #MethaneSAT will measure plumes of methane that billow invisibly from #oil and #gas operations, and Google and #EDF will then map those leaks for use by researchers, #regulators, and the public. https://www.technologyreview.com/2024/02/14/1088198/satellite-google-ai-map-methane-leaks/

Google joins mission to map #methane from space

Tech giant Google is backing a satellite project due to launch in March which will collect data about methane levels around the world.

By Zoe KleinmanTechnology editor
February 13, 2024

"The new satellite will orbit 300 miles about the Earth, 15 times per day.

"#MethaneGas is believed by scientists to be a major contributor to #GlobalWarming, because it traps in heat.

"A lot of methane is produced by farming and waste disposal, but the Google project will focus on methane emissions at #oil and #gas plants.

"Firms extracting oil and gas regularly burn or vent methane.

"The new project is a collaboration between Google and the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund [#EDF], a non-profit global climate group.

"The data captured by the satellite will be processed by the tech giant's artificial intelligence tools and used to generate a methane map aimed at identifying methane leaks on oil and gas infrastructure around the world.

"But the firm said if it identified a significant leak it would not specifically notify the company which owned the infrastructure responsible for it.

"'Our job is to make information available,' it said, adding that governments and regulators would be among those with access to it and it would be for them to force any changes.

"There is no international rule on controlling methane emissions. The EU has agreed a set of proposals aimed at reducing them, which includes forcing oil and gas operators to repair leaks. In the #coal sector, #flaring will be banned in member states from 2025.

"Google's map, which will be published on its Earth Engine, will not be in real time, with data sent back from the satellite every few weeks.

"In 2017, the European Space Agency launched a similar satellite instrument called #Tropomi, which charts the presence of trace gases in the atmosphere, including methane.

"It was a mission with a minimum seven-year life span, which means it could end this year.

"#CarbonMapper, which uses Tropomi data, released a report in 2022 indicating that the biggest methane plumes were seen in #Turkmenistan, #Russia and the #US - but cloud cover meant the data did not include #Canada or #China.

"Google said it hoped its project would 'fill gaps between existing tools'."

Read more:
https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-68293896

#BigOilAndGas

Google [And Others Are] Making A Map Of Methane Leaks For The Whole World To See
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https://www.businessinsider.com/google-map-methane-leaks-world-can-see-2024-2 <-- shared media article
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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-68166298 <-- shared media article
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #remotesensing #satellite #copernicus #sentinel #sentinel2 #emissions #climatechange #methane #oilandgas #oilgas #oilandgasindustry #monitoring #MethaneSAT #methane #methaneemissions #accountablity #greenhousegas #globalwarming #google #esa #environmentaldefensefund
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Google Partners With the Environmental Defense Fund to Tackle Climate Change https://petapixel.com/2024/02/14/google-partners-with-the-environmental-defense-fund-to-tackle-climate-change/ #environmentaldefensefund #climatechange #globalwarming #conservation #environment #Technology #satellite #science #google #Space #News

The Tyee: Alberta Sets a Methane ‘Super-Emitter’ Record https://thetyee.ca/News/2023/12/11/Alberta-Methane-Super-Emitter/ #bcnews #TheTyee - via @tyee@mstdn.ca #EnergyandEmissionsResearchLabCarletonUniversity #Albertaabandonedoilandgaswells #abandonedoilandgaswellsCanada #Albertamethanesuper-emitter #EnvironmentalDefenseFund #Canadaoilandgasindustry #globalmethaneemissions #methaneclimatechange #inactivewellsCanada #CarletonUniversity #AnthonyIngraffea #McGillUniversity #MatthewJohnson #MaryKang

Biden’s EPA Just Enacted Its Strongest Methane Rules Yet https://heatmap.news/economy/biden-epa-methane-rules

#EPA: #Biden - #Harris Administration Finalizes Standards to Slash #Methane #Pollution, Combat #ClimateChange, Protect Health, and Bolster American Innovation https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/biden-harris-administration-finalizes-standards-slash-methane-pollution-combat-climate

"'The U.S. now has the most protective #MethanePollution limits on the books': Fredd Krupp, president of the #EnvironmentalDefenseFund, which has played a major role in exposing the dangers of methane."

A nearly $500,000 grant awarded this week by the Environmental Protection Agency will help the Houston communities of Fifth Ward, Galena Park, Pleasantville and Sunnyside monitor hazardous air pollutants over a three-year period.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2023/11/30/471206/epa-awards-another-500000-grant-for-air-quality-monitoring-in-houston-neighborhoods/

#EnergyAndEnvironment #HarrisCounty #HealthAndScience #Houston #Local #News #PublicSafety #airpollution #airqualitymonitoring #EnvironmentalDefenseFund #EnvironmentalIntegrityProject #EnvironmentalProtectionAgency #Houstonair

LIVE NOW – How can a shift to a circular economy in the EU contribute to a climate-neutral Europe? https://www.euractiv.com/section/energy-environment/video/how-can-a-shift-to-a-circular-economy-in-the-eu-contribute-to-a-climate-neutral-europe/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=mastodon #EnvironmentalDefenseFund

Tales from the Fight Against #ClimateChange: Keeping People Honest on #MethaneEmissions - *CATALYST* calls on #methanedetection #satellite experts to help secure a #methanereduction treaty.

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