Trump reverses Obama crackdown on carbon dioxide.
In good news for breathing aficionados everywhere, the Trump administration is preparing for what Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin is calling “the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States” by finding that when you exhale, you’re not endangering the planet.
For sixteen years it was settled law in the United States of America that not only was the earth endangered, all evidence to the contrary, but that exhaling carbon dioxide and emitting methane as well as nitrous oxide and water vapor were urgent threats to be regulated by the government.
The Obama administration spent its first months in office fanatically rushing through a ‘scientific review’ by the EPA that declared that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and others were part of an ominous group known as “greenhouse gases” that had to be fought with every regulation necessary. The Obama EPA did thankfully exclude H20 or water vapor, probably the leading ‘greenhouse gas’ which ‘scientists’ blamed for about half the ‘greenhouse effect’.
Even the EPA understood that no one would take it seriously if it promised to get the water out of the air to save the planet. Not even if they renamed it something scary like Dihydrogen Monoxide.
The theoretical legal basis for having the government go to war against carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide (with water vapor waiting somewhere in the wings) was the Clean Air Act. The CAA had been created in the sixties to keep pollutants from factories out of the air. The Obama administration rebooted it to keep carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide out of the air which would only be possible with the extermination of all life on earth. Hope and Change.
What started with tracking smokestacks and acid rain had escalated into total genocide based on a myth about ‘greenhouse gases’ that had originally been derived from Percival Lowell, a 19th century New England dilletante who looked at Mars through a defective telescope and decided it had canals, and further decided that the canals had been built by Martians to conserve water because their planet had suffered an environmental crisis.
Despite being wrong about literally everything (much like the EPA and environmentalists), Lowell began writing extensive speculation about what life was like on Mars and Venus. Many took to speculating that Mars had lost its water and grew cold because it lost its atmosphere and that Venus became too hot because the planet trapped gases due to a “greenhouse effect”.
The term “greenhouse effect” was coined in response to Lowell’s planetary speculations. --->READ MORE HERE
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Which is the greater public menace: ubiquitous greenhouse gases or the contraction of economic liberty necessary to limit their emission? For over 15 years, the federal government chose to target the former at the seemingly limitless expense of the latter. But not anymore.
The Trump administration announced on Tuesday that it would formally revoke the Environmental Protection Agency’s finding from 2009 that the atmospheric concentrations of six greenhouse gases posed a danger to the public by exacerbating global warming. Under the Clean Air Act, which grants the EPA its authority to regulate air pollutants, this “endangerment finding” fulfilled the statutory requirement that the agency needed to issue manifold rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from sources across the U.S. economy.
Most notably, the endangerment finding has been cited to justify ever-tightening standards for new vehicles’ carbon dioxide emissions — including the Biden administration’s electric vehicle mandate that it tried to sneak through the regulatory back door. Bureaucrats have been instructed to regulate major industries based on their alleged climate risks, aiming far beyond the toxic air pollutants that can directly harm people’s health.
Greenhouse gases, by contrast, are harmless for humans to inhale in normal concentrations. The EPA during the Obama administration asserted, however, that by trapping heat in the earth’s atmosphere and gradually raising its temperature, the emission of these gases threatens the “public health and welfare of current and future generations.”
Regardless of how climate change will affect Americans’ health and welfare decades from now, the EPA’s finding was a gross mutilation of the Clean Air Act’s plain meaning, which allows only for the regulation of harmful air pollution. Greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide, as a natural and eternal component of the atmosphere, by their nature cannot be considered air pollutants. Neither are such substances threatening, if the word has any limits to its meaning, as they do no injury to those who breathe them in. The negative effects of greenhouse gases on human welfare via climate change — if they ever materialize in the face of adaptation — are purely theoretical and indirect. --->READ MORE HERE
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