The Trump administration repealed the U.S. government's power to fight climate change.

That's where we're starting the seven from the Washington Post. I'm Hannah Jewell.

It's Friday, February 13th. Let's get you caught up with today's seven stories.

Nearly 17 years ago, the Environmental Protection Agency declared

that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases threaten the public's health and welfare.

It was known as the endangerment finding, and it gave the government a legal basis to regulate

greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act,

for example, by restricting vehicle emissions.

Yesterday, the EPA rescinded that landmark legal finding.

President Donald Trump spoke at a White House event.

In 2009, Barack Hussein Obama, his EPA designated fossil fuels such as oil, gas,

and other things that actually make factories rock and roll and other things drive very nicely as a threat to health and human

welfare known as the endangerment finding. This determination had no basis, in fact, had none

whatsoever. Climate scientists and public health experts disagree. Yesterday's announcement marks

the culmination of years of effort by

conservative and industry groups to undermine federal rules that limit greenhouse gases,

and to hamper future administrations from putting them back in place after Trump.

A judge rejected Pete Hegseth's bid to punish a senator over a video message to troops.

That's number two.

In November, six Democratic lawmakers appeared in a video advising U.S. troops to reject illegal orders. Yesterday,

there was another setback in the Trump administration's attempts to punish them for it. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth wanted to discipline Senator Mark Kelly, an Arizona Democrat and retired Navy

captain. But a federal judge ordered a halt to pending disciplinary action, which could have reduced

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