Minnesota's updated Climate Action Framework outlines ambitious goals in an effort to tackle the alleged effects of increasing climate changes.

Simon Stiell’s speech came the same day EPA said it would eliminate the legal basis for its ability to fight climate change.

The Environmental Protection Agency will issue a final rule rescinding a 2009 government declaration known as the endangerment finding.

The EPA rescission sets a dangerous environmental precedent, critics say. But legal challenges and prevailing trends mean the industry won’t “crank the CO₂ all the way up.”

The move updates the previous framework, which was originally launched in 2022. The agency says the update was developed with input from businesses and local governments across the North Star State.

By Martin ClarkDespite the troubled world we live in and the dominance of the politics of oil, there is now little doubt that climate change is happening. In Cyprus, we are on the front line, as drying conditions and rising temperatures are increasingly apparent.

The US Environmental Protection Agency has scrapped the legal basis that has underpinned its ability to regulate emissions for almost two decades, as Donald Trump looks to rip up federal climate policy.

The EPA intends to repeal the "endangerment finding," an Obama-era policy that supported regulation of pollution from greenhouse gases. The administration says the regulations hurt business and industry and were rooted in climate change,