{"id":66250,"date":"2026-02-13T08:07:04","date_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:07:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/first-thing-trump-repeals-landmark-climate-finding-in-gift-to-billionaire-polluters\/"},"modified":"2026-02-13T08:07:04","modified_gmt":"2026-02-13T13:07:04","slug":"first-thing-trump-repeals-landmark-climate-finding-in-gift-to-billionaire-polluters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/first-thing-trump-repeals-landmark-climate-finding-in-gift-to-billionaire-polluters\/","title":{"rendered":"First Thing: Trump repeals landmark climate finding in gift to \u2018billionaire polluters\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Obama says rollback will make Americans \u2018less safe\u2019. Plus, Thundercat on funk and being fired by Snoop (possibly)<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/info\/2018\/sep\/17\/guardian-us-morning-briefing-sign-up-to-stay-informed\"><strong>Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Good morning.<\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/12\/trump-epa-rollback-pollution-regulation-endangerment-finding\">revoked the scientific finding that allows the federal government<\/a> to regulate climate-heating pollution, in a move described as a gift to \u201cbillionaire polluters\u201d at the cost of Americans\u2019 health.<\/p>\n<p><strong>How will it be resisted?<\/strong> Multiple environmental groups have pledged to take the EPA to court over the rollback, as has the state of California.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What\u2019s the split in Europe? <\/strong>Some are in the same camp as the French president, Emmanuel Macron, who says the continent should employ a more defiant diplomacy with Trump. Others, like the Nato secretary general, Mark Rutte, have said keeping the president onside is imperative for European security.<\/p>\n<p><strong>For the latest updates,<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/live\/2026\/feb\/13\/munich-security-conference-rubio-flies-in-amid-testing-times-for-us-europe-ties-live\">head to our live blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/13\/first-thing-trump-repeals-landmark-climate-finding-in-gift-to-billionaire-polluters\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Obama says rollback will make Americans \u2018less safe\u2019. Plus, Thundercat on funk and being fired by Snoop (possibly) Don\u2019t already get First Thing in your inbox? Sign up here Good morning. Donald Trump has revoked the scientific finding that allows the federal government to regulate climate-heating pollution, in a move described as a gift to &#8230; <a title=\"First Thing: Trump repeals landmark climate finding in gift to \u2018billionaire polluters\u2019\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/13\/first-thing-trump-repeals-landmark-climate-finding-in-gift-to-billionaire-polluters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about First Thing: Trump repeals landmark climate finding in gift to \u2018billionaire polluters\u2019\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66250","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66250","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66250"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66250\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66250"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66250"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66250"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}