Environmental Regulation

France raises purchase taxes on heavier, higher-emitting cars

WORLD & POLITICS FRANCE

France will tighten its vehicle weight and CO₂ purchase-tax schedule from 2026, lowering the weight-tax exemption threshold and steepening progressive charges that can add tens of thousands of dollars to some internal-combustion models’ registered prices.

China tightens national solid-waste rules that pull packaging into stricter recycling targets

WORLD & POLITICS CHINA

China’s State Council issued a national action plan setting quantified solid-waste reduction, resource-efficiency and recycling targets through 2030 that explicitly cover packaging materials and require stronger source reduction and sorting systems.

France expands when farmers can shoot wolves to protect livestock

WORLD & POLITICS FRANCE

France will allow farmers to shoot wolves that attack livestock even when the animals are outside protected enclosures, with the change to be formalized by executive order in the coming weeks.

US EPA removes its core legal trigger for federal greenhouse-gas rules

WORLD & POLITICS USA

The Trump administration announced the EPA has repealed its 2009 “endangerment finding” that greenhouse gases endanger human health, which had served as the legal basis for regulating GHGs under the Clean Air Act.

US Senate Democrats challenge EPA rollback of air-pollution benefit accounting

WORLD & POLITICS USA

More than three dozen Democratic senators opened an independent inquiry demanding EPA documents by 26 February on the agency’s repeal of a key method for valuing the health benefits of reducing air pollution.

US EPA moves to unwind the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas rules

WORLD & POLITICS USA

The Trump administration announced it is reversing the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” the determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare under the Clean Air Act.

Germany tightens producer obligations under its packaging law

LAW & PUBLIC SAFETY GERMANY

Germany’s federal cabinet approved amendments to the Packaging Act that strengthen extended producer responsibility, recyclability requirements, and reporting duties for companies placing packaging on the German market to align with the EU PPWR.

Trump administration rolls back federal climate policy

WORLD & POLITICS USA

The Trump administration executed a sweeping rollback of federal climate change policy on Thursday, removing a major regulatory foundation used to support Democratic climate initiatives.

EPA moves to unwind the legal basis for federal greenhouse-gas rules

WORLD & POLITICS USA

The Trump administration has officially repealed the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding,” starting with a rule change covering car and truck tailpipe greenhouse-gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.

US climate rules lose their core Clean Air Act foundation

WORLD & POLITICS USA

The US Environmental Protection Agency finalised a rule rescinding the 2009 “endangerment finding” that underpins federal greenhouse-gas regulation under the Clean Air Act.

US EPA revokes the legal basis used to regulate greenhouse gas emissions

WORLD & POLITICS USA

The EPA announced a final rule revoking its greenhouse-gas “endangerment finding,” the determination that has underpinned federal CO2 emissions rules for vehicles, power plants, and industrial sources.

U.S. EPA removes the legal foundation for federal greenhouse-gas rules

WORLD & POLITICS USA

On February 12, 2026, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding for greenhouse gases and terminated federal GHG emission standards for model-year 2012–2027 vehicles and engines.

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