President Donald Trump’s administration has proposed revoking a scientific finding that's long been the central basis for U.S. action to regulate greenhouse gas emissions and fight climate change.

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.

If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s most powerful way to control the country’s planet-warming pollution and fight climate change.