Ignore the doomsayers — Trump and Lee Zeldin’s green rollback is a breath of sanity:
There once was a time when doomsday cults and apocalyptic predictions were the realm of messianic preachers and the Book of Revelations.
But buckle up, because we are about to hear some of the wildest predictions now that EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin has decided to cut some of America’s most burdensome, ineffective and costly regulations.
“We are all gonna die!” they’re sure to scream.
Zeldin’s cancellation of the Obama-era Endangerment Finding is sure to prompt warnings that the Earth’s polar ice will melt, wildfires will spread, rivers will overrun, locusts, frogs, slaying of the first-born.
If it’s hot outside, Zeldin, President Trump and climate change will be blamed.
If it’s cold, Zeldin, Trump and climate change.
It’s all nonsense, of course. The globalist left has drunk the Kool-Aid of environmental fanaticism, and it’s led to some of the worst policy decisions of the last two decades.
It’s why we have pointless EV mandates, why Germany foolishly scrapped nuclear energy, why we block pipelines, why our showers have little water pressure.
In New York, it’s worse. It’s the reason we shut the Indian Point nuclear plant and imposed gas-appliance and fracking bans and congestion pricing.
Climate change is the religion that justifies socking the middle class with massive Local Law 97 carbon costs in the city.
None of these moves will actually save the planet, mind you. And that’s why it’s great news that Trump, Zeldin & Co. are aiming to right-size emissions standards and energy regulations.
We need a reset of the balance between environmentalism and pragmatism, with reality taking a larger role.
The American consumer and entrepreneur will matter from now on. --->READ MORE HERE
Trump, Zeldin roll back Obama-era climate change rule — cite savings of more than $3,800 per American:
President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin unveiled what they called the biggest red tape removal in US history Thursday, axing a sweeping Obama-era anti-greenhouse gas policy and predicting it could save $1.3 trillion, or about $3,823.50 per US resident.
“Today, the Trump EPA has finalized the single largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States of America,” Zeldin said alongside Trump in the White House Roosevelt Room.
“Referred to by some as the holy grail of federal regulatory overreach, the 2009 Obama EPA endangerment finding is now eliminated.”
The repeal ends a policy allowing the feds to regulate fossil fuels by declaring them dangerous to public health.
The so-called “endangerment finding” allowed the EPA to measure and constrain the output of six greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act — including emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide by vehicles amd power plants.
Trump called the finding “a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers,” predicting they would save “trillions of dollars” as a result of Thursday’s action.
The president added that his administration was “terminating all additional green emission standards imposed unnecessarily on vehicle models and engines between 2012 and 2027 and beyond.”
Zeldin said the changes could lower car costs by an average of about $2,400.
An economic impact analysis released Thursday night said the $1.3 trillion in savings included $1.1 trillion in reduced vehicle costs and $200 billion in avoided electric vehicle expenses, including chargers and other equipment. The savings are calculated over a 28-year period between 2027 and 2055.
A number of regulations premised on the endangerment finding are now subject to repeal, including the Biden administration’s stringent fuel emissions standards, formalized in March 2024 and designed to ensure that two-thirds of passenger cars and light trucks sold by 2032 are electric or hybrid models.
Another Biden-era regulation, also announced in March 2024, sought to require that work trucks and tractors reduce carbon dioxide emissions by between 25% and 60%, depending on weight category, by 2032.
A second wave of power plant deregulation actions are expected to follow from the EPA.
“The 2009 endangerment finding is the cornerstone of EPA’s regulation over greenhouse gases, so removing it will have a very significant impact on multiple industries — first and foremost the auto and vehicle manufacturers,” said Matthew Leopold, EPA general counsel during Trump’s first term. --->READ MORE HERE
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