President Trump issued an Executive Order on day one called “Power the American Great Comeback.” From this EO, the President gave U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin 30 days to make recommendations regarding “the legality and continuing applicability of the Green House Gas (GHG) rule.
On March 12th, Zeldin came out with a formal reconsideration of the “Endangerment Finding” along with 31 historic deregulatory actions to address GHG regulations. One of those actions pertains to overhauling Biden’s “Social Cost of Carbon.”
The Endangerment Finding (EF) was created by the Obama EPA in 2009, after the 2007 Supreme Court ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA (reported in last week’s Liberty Matters). The Biden administration doubled down on the EF ruling to implement its overreaching and insane climate agenda.
The 2007 Supreme Court’s decision gave EPA the blanket authority to regulate GHGs as a pollutant and the EPA started creating new rules like the Endangerment Finding rule.
Administrator Zeldin affirmed EPA’s commitment to commonsense policies and stated: “By overhauling massive rules on the endangerment finding, the social cost of carbon and similar issues, we are driving a dagger through the heart of climate-change religion and ushering in America’s Golden Age. These actions will roll back trillions of dollars in regulatory costs and hidden taxes.”
He added: “Today marks the death of the Green New Scam. The EPA recognizes that environmental protection and economic prosperity aren’t mutually exclusive goals”.
To read about EPA’s Biggest Deregulatory Action in History (31 Actions) story go click here.
To Read Zeldin Ends ‘Green New Deal” click here.
To read Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding click here.
