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The Trump Administration is on the precipice of ending the Endangerment Finding, a rule that Democrats have used for years to impose harsh climate regulations, according to energy policy experts.
Related: This key scientific finding underpins US climate action. Now Trump is being urged to ignore it, Euronews via Yahoo, 27 February 2025
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Trump Has Golden Opportunity To Blow Up Climate Agenda’s Crown Jewel
By Audrey Streb, DCNF Energy Reporter, 21 July 2025
The Trump Administration is on the precipice of ending the Endangerment Finding, a rule that Democrats have used for years to impose harsh climate regulations, energy policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation (“DCNF”).
The Endangerment Finding, established in 2009 under the Obama Environmental Protection Agency (“EPA”), rules that greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, can be regulated for the sake of human health and the environment. The underlying science was contested when the EPA established the rule, and the Endangerment Finding has since been used to impose draconian rules on power plants that have helped lead to closures across the country and teed up Democrat policies that have forced electric vehicles and appliances onto consumers, energy sector experts told the DCNF.
“The Endangerment Finding was the result of a highly politicised process relying on cherry-picked data meant to appease the wants of climate extremists. It quickly became a favourite tool of Democrat administrations and their left-wing allies to manipulate the economy in favour of their politically preferred technologies like wind, solar and electric vehicles,” Mandy Gunasekara, author and former EPA Chief of Staff under the first Trump Administration, told the DCNF.
Adding, “The effects of the regulatory schemes built off of the Endangerment Finding are far-reaching and costly. The Endangerment Finding has led to higher energy costs, unreliable electricity grids, lost jobs and a shift of investment to overseas countries like China and India that have lacklustre environmental standards.”
Related: Lee Zeldin Reportedly Takes Major Shot At Heart Of Dems’ Climate Agenda, Daily Caller, 26 February 2025
The EPA announced that the agency is formally reconsidering the Endangerment Finding on 12 March in collaboration with the Office of Management and Budget (“OMB”) and other agencies. OMB received a request from EPA on 30 June regarding the 2009 Endangerment Finding, though the contents have not yet been publicised.
“The proposal will be published for public notice and comment once it has completed interagency review and been signed by the Administrator,” an EPA spokesperson told the DCNF.
In April 2007, the Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts vs. EPA that greenhouse gases are air pollutants that can be regulated under the Clean Air Act, setting the precedent enabling the Endangerment Finding two years later.
Stringent rules on power plants that stem from the Endangerment Finding have led to closures of coal facilities around the US and weakened the electrical grid, spiking the risk of blackouts, experts have explained to the DCNF previously. After years of static electricity demand, the wave of power plant closures and the anticipation of new data centres have led to projections that the US may be unable to meet its power needs in the near future, according to industry experts and a recent Department of Energy (“DOE”) report.
“We’re now at a point where we’re facing frequent blackouts … because there’s too much wind and solar in the system,” Myron Ebell, former director for the Centre for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute and leader of the Trump EPA transition team in 2016, told the DCNF. Ebell explained that energy technology like coal provides baseload power, and a heavy reliance on intermittent sources like wind and solar tanks the reliability of the electrical grid. He also noted that there is a correlation between high electricity costs and a strong dependence on resources like wind and solar.
The Endangerment Finding has not only led to strict regulations that have ultimately weakened the electric grid, but it has also allowed for policies that police vehicle emissions, Ebell told the DNCF.
“The consequences of the Endangerment Finding are people being forced to buy vehicles they don’t want,” Ebell said, adding that the One Big Beautiful Bill Act did a lot to aid consumer choice as it reduced the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (“CAFÉ”) standard violation penalty to $0.
“Now automakers can go ahead and start producing the vehicles Americans want to buy,” Ebell said. He also noted that the Clean Air Act was not designed to regulate carbon dioxide, arguing that it does not do so effectively and that Massachusetts vs. EPA is not a solid legal ruling.
“It’s one of the really most incoherent and poorly argued Supreme Court decisions you can find,” Ebell told the DCNF. “The justices on the majority side really wanted to get on the global warming bandwagon, and they just didn’t want to miss out and be on the wrong side of history.”
Related: Dems Finally Realising Most Americans Don’t Want Enormous Climate Agenda Imposed On Them, Daily Caller, 13 June 2025
Gunasekara argued that the scientific data chosen to justify the Endangerment Finding did not consider the benefits of carbon dioxide, and that the models predicting worst-case scenarios have been “disproven by what we’ve experienced in real life.” Some key scientific points were drawn from the fourth United Nations Climate Assessment, which is now almost 20 years old, Gunasekara pointed out, noting that the most recent report is the Sixth Assessment Report.
“The Trump Administration should make its decisions based on the latest and greatest science. The Endangerment Finding does not meet this standard and should no longer be used as a basis for ineffective, highly politicised regulations,” Gunasekara said.
Other critics in the energy sector agree that the Endangerment Finding was not decided based on the best scientific evidence.
“The problem is they’ve taken the alarmism way out of proportion,” Willie Soon, astrophysicist and geoscientist who conducts research for the Centre for Environmental Research and Earth Sciences (“CERES”), told the DNCF. He argues that the scientific evidence available in 2007, when Massachusetts vs. EPA was decided, was “boldly untenable” and that the EPA engaged in “deliberate cherry-picking.”
Diana Furchtgott-Roth, director of the Heritage Foundation’s Centre for Energy, Climate and Environment, told the DCNF that though the data supporting the Endangerment Finding might have come from well-intentioned scientists, it is now outdated.
“It’s about time the Endangerment Finding was rolled back formally,” Furchtgott-Roth said, arguing that the EPA “already rolled back the Endangerment Finding de facto” in June’s proposed repeals and reforms of Obama and Biden-era emissions rules on power plants.
If the EPA proposed a rule to roll back the whole Endangerment Finding, it would make its way through the federal rulemaking process. The proposed rule would be open to public comment for at least 30 days in the Federal Register before Zeldin could sign it, though significant or major rules are often required to have a 60-day implementation delay.
OMB did not respond to the DNCF’s request for comment.
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Excellent, thank you!
We all know the CO2 fear is nonsense, but let me just trot out some of the reasons.
1) It’s hard to find any tangible support for the opinion that CO2 is a pollutant and that it causes global warming. In fact here is a graph showing cycles of temperature change starting long before coal-fired industrialisation.
https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=10874222
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_temperature_record#/media/File:EPICA_temperature_plot.svg
Wikipedia shows a pretty regular saw tooth of global temperatures for 800 thousand years, with peaks about every 70 thousand years on average. In the present cycle, temperatures have now been rising for the past 20 thousand years, beginning a long time before the industrial revolution. Peaks are brief, and we seem to be near the top of one now. This regular saw tooth must be caused by something out of this world, perhaps by our sun.
2) Also, I hear that higher global temperature cause co2 to be released into the atmosphere, and not the other way around. In fact the lag between temperature and co2 levels is a few hundred years
I never believed in the Earth overheating because of us and our living standards, or the ice melting at the poles, it was just another way for a chosen few to get richer on the backs of the poorer who had no say in the matter and could only conform to whatever they were required to do, just like it always is. But Trump wants to start using Coal again and Coal fired electricity generation plants which he can’t do while the air clean crowd have their say.
We are told that pollution cools our planet down and the lack of pollution continues to heat it up, which is a complete turn around on policies for the past few years, so the fewer of us that there are, the hotter our planet will become, for The Elite
I worked in the coal industry for 20 years of my 30 year mining career. American coal is used more responsibly than in any other country on the planet. The pictures we are shown of power plants with big white clouds coming out of the stacks to convince us that they are destroying the planet are taken when the temps are just right to be able to catch these clouds… they are mostly water vapor. If temps are right, you will see practically nothing coming out of the stacks (Unlike China and India where you see big black clouds). America has close to 1000 years of coal available in areas like where I am where it’s located under the ground which is just flat lands and some rolling hills all covered with sagebrush. When reclaimed after mining a person cannot even tell that there was ever a mine there. Coal is reliable and inexpensive. Is there some pollution? Of course there is. There will always be a few trade-offs. The goal should be to use these amazing materials in the most responsible way possible and not catapult society into the dark ages so that a few billionaires can take vacations and not see any useless eaters around them.
“The Endangerment Finding will be reconsidered, a move that will shake the very foundation of the climate change movement”
https://thefederalist.com/2025/03/13/epa-targets-obama-era-rules-that-let-climate-zealots-hold-america-hostage/