EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said Tuesday he's issuing draft plans to overturn the agency's 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human health and welfare — a move guaranteed to spark litigation.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is embracing a philosophy of climate change denial as it works to upend climate regulations and their legal underpinnings. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said last week that his agency will propose to repeal a 2009 determination known as the “endangerment finding” that declared that planet-warming gases including carbon dioxide are a