The Trump administration plans to repeal the Obama-era scientific finding serving the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas regulation, Meridith McGraw and Benoit Morenne of The Wall Street Journal reports, citing U.S. officials. This reversal targets the “endangerment finding” from 2009, which concluded six greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and provided the underpinning for the Environmental Protection Agency’s climate rules. Publicly traded companies in the space include Exxon Mobile (XOM), BP (BP), Chevron (CVX), TotalEnergies (TTE), ConocoPhillips (COP).
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