New Mexico climate groups struck a defiant tone in the wake of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s plan to dismantle federal authority to reduce one of the drivers of climate change: greenhouse gases.

Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, unveiled the move at a car dealership in the US state of Indiana on Tuesday, hailing it as "the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States" and the "death of the Green New Scam.

EPA chief Lee Zeldin proposes a repeal of the Endangerment Finding on climate change. State Sen. Ed Markey is fighting back.