By Valerie Volcovici and David Shepardson WASHINGTON, Feb 12 (Reuters) - The administration of President Donald Trump on Thursday announced the repeal of a scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health,

The announcement on Thursday removes the legal bedrock for much of US environmental legislation.

The Environmental Protection Agency rejected the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and well being. It means the agency can no longer regulate them.

The Environmental Protection Agency finishes the repeal of the “endangerment finding,” a landmark legal opinion underpinning policies regulating climate change.

The Trump administration on Thursday terminated the Environmental Protection Agency’s “Endangerment Finding,” a landmark policy that led to sweeping climate change regulations

US President Donald Trump's decision to repeal a scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health has been described as "catastrophic".

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Trump administration on Thursday will revoke a scientific finding that long has been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate heat-trapping greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change, the White House announced.

Scientists say warming is increasing faster than at any time in at least 3 million years. There is no guide for what comes next.

Donald Trump revokes landmark ruling that greenhouse gases endanger public health - Former President Barack Obama ⁠blasts the move saying ‘we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight clima

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,