In a sweeping move that the White House is calling the largest deregulatory action ever undertaken by the federal government, Trump formally rescinded the 2009 “Endangerment Finding” that allowed Washington bureaucrats to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for more than a decade and a half.
Standing in the Roosevelt Room beside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, Trump declared the controversial rule finished.
“Under the process just completed by the EPA, we are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding,” Trump said. “It was a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers. It had no basis in law.”
The Endangerment Finding, issued during the Obama years under then-EPA chief Lisa Jackson, concluded that carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases posed a danger to public health and welfare. That determination became the legal engine behind a massive expansion of federal climate regulations, affecting cars, trucks, power plants, and heavy industry across the country.
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