US: Trump To Announce Rescission Of Obama-Era Climate Finding Shortly

US President Donald Trump is shortly due to join Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin at the White House to announce that the administration will no longer adhere to an Obama-era scientific finding that has underpinned US climate policy since 2009. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Tuesday, “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history.” LIVESTREAM

• The Wall Street Journal notes that the 2009 finding, "provided the legal underpinning for the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules, which limited emissions from power plants and tightened fuel-economy standards for vehicles under the Clean Air Act."
• Today’s event may offer an opportunity for the press to speak directly to Trump for the first time since Friday, a rare blackout for the media-accessible president. Trump took no questions at a coal event yesterday, and his diary this week has been closed to the press.
• Politico writes that Trump has a lot to tout, “The economy keeps outperforming expectations — yesterday’s job market figures were (again) way better than analysts predicted. Inflation has repeatedly beaten forecasts too. GDP and wage growth are impressive. The stock market is at record levels. The dire warnings of a tariff-led recession feel like a very long time ago. And we’ve seen a policy blitz on affordability, with housing, drug prices and energy costs among the areas targeted in recent weeks.”