{"id":68437,"date":"2026-03-08T09:55:24","date_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/how-trumps-epa-rollbacks-give-us-states-new-tools-in-climate-suits\/"},"modified":"2026-03-08T09:55:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-08T14:55:24","slug":"how-trumps-epa-rollbacks-give-us-states-new-tools-in-climate-suits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/how-trumps-epa-rollbacks-give-us-states-new-tools-in-climate-suits\/","title":{"rendered":"How Trump\u2019s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont and New York face high stakes to protect climate superfund laws as it faces attacks from Trump\u2019s DoJ<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>By rolling back a bedrock <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/climate-crisis\">climate<\/a> legal determination, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/trump-administration\">Trump administration<\/a> has undercut its attacks on a groundbreaking state climate accountability law, green groups have argued in court.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s justice department has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/sep\/17\/trump-vermont-oil-climate-superfund-act\">asked<\/a> a judge to kill a first-of-its-kind 2024 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/may\/31\/vermont-oil-companies-climate-superfund-act\">Vermont \u201cclimate superfund\u201d policy<\/a> requiring major polluters to pay for damages caused by their past planet-heating pollution, partly on the grounds that that federal law, not state law, governs greenhouse gas emissions. But last month, Trump\u2019s Environmental Protection Agency (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/environment\/epa\">EPA<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/feb\/12\/trump-epa-rollback-pollution-regulation-endangerment-finding\">repealed<\/a> the endangerment finding, the scientific determination giving federal officials the authority to control those very pollutants.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/mar\/08\/trump-epa-rollbacks-vermont-new-york-climate-suits\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vermont and New York face high stakes to protect climate superfund laws as it faces attacks from Trump\u2019s DoJ Sign up for the Breaking News US email to get newsletter alerts in your inbox By rolling back a bedrock climate legal determination, the Trump administration has undercut its attacks on a groundbreaking state climate accountability &#8230; <a title=\"How Trump\u2019s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/03\/08\/how-trumps-epa-rollbacks-give-us-states-new-tools-in-climate-suits\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about How Trump\u2019s EPA rollbacks give US states new tools in climate suits\">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-68437","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\/68437","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=68437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68437\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}