Attorney General Bonta Opposes Trump Administration’s Revised Attempt to Eliminate Climate Pollution Limits on Power Plants

November 2, 2026 Contact: (916) 210-6000, agpressoffice@doj.ca.gov Trump is making pollution great again (and again , and again …) OAKLAND — California Attorney General Rob Bonta today joined a coalition of 27 states, counties, and cities in opposing the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) supplemental proposal to rescind its 2015 finding that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fossil fuel power plants drive climate change and endanger public health and welfare, which would eliminate and prevent regulation of these emissions. The 2015 finding, known as the Endangerment Finding for power plants, acknowledged that fossil fuel power plant GHG emissions significantly contribute to the pollution that is changing the climate and triggered EPA’s duty to set limits on those emissions. EPA proposed rescinding the finding on different grounds last year, at the same time it proposed repealing the Biden Administration’s GHG emissions standards for certain fossil fuel-fired power plants. Although EPA finalized the repeal of the Biden-era emissions standards, it did not finalize its proposed recission of the Endangerment Finding, instead choosing to supplement its proposal with argumen

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