Skip to main contentSkip to navigation Close dialogue1/1 Next image Previous image Toggle captionSkip to navigation Donald Trump holds a signed executive order directing the military to purchase electricity from coal-fired power plants during a ‘Champion of Coal’ event at the White House on Wednesday. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images View image in fullscreen Donald Trump holds a signed executive order directing the military to purchase electricity from coal-fired power plants during a ‘Champion of Coal’ event at the White House on Wednesday. Photograph: Saul Loeb/AFP/Getty Images Climate leaders condemn Trump EPA’s biggest rollback yet: ‘This is corruption’ Leaders promise to fight back with court challenges as Trump rescinds finding foundational to US climate rules Climate leaders gathered outside the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters on Wednesday to condemn the Trump administration’s plans to repeal the legal finding underpinning all federal climate regulations, and promised to fight against the rollback.“This is corruption, plain and simple. Old-fashioned, dirty political corruption,” said Sheldon Whitehouse, senator for Rhode Island, at the rally. “This is an agency that has been so infiltrated by the corrupt fossil fuel industry that it has turned an agency of government into the weapon of the fossil fuel polluters.”The rescinding of the 2009 endangerment finding will be finalized by Donald Trump and the EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, on Thursday, the…
Published: February 12, 2026 5:22 pm
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