Former President Barack Obama responded after the Trump administration announced the repeal of his landmark climate regulation known as the Endangerment Finding. [some emphasis, links added]
Enacted in 2009 under Obama, the Endangerment Finding determined that the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) could regulate greenhouse gases as harmful pollutants under the Clean Air Act.
President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Thursday that the administration is officially eliminating the finding and therefore the agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, which will have far-reaching consequences in a win for “consumer choice.”
“Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules,” Obama wrote on X on Thursday, shortly after Trump’s announcement. “Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy, and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.”
Trump announced Thursday that, under “Barack Hussein Obama,” the finding was enacted and that repealing it constituted the “largest deregulatory action in American history.”
Zeldin added that the finding exceeded congressional authority and that the American people paid the price for the harsh regulations that followed.
“EPA now finds that even if the U.S. were to eliminate all GHG emissions from all vehicles, there would be no material impact on global climate indicators through 2100,” the EPA announced Thursday.
“Therefore, maintaining GHG emission standards is not necessary for EPA to fulfill its core mission of protecting human health and the environment, but regardless, it is not within the authority Congress entrusted to EPA.
“Today’s action is only related to GHG emissions and does not affect regulations that combat criteria pollutants and air toxics.”
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