EPA plans to ignore science, stop regulating greenhouse gases
July 30, 2025 in News by RBN Staff
via: ARStechnica.com
By MARTHA MUIR, FINANCIAL TIMES
“Largest deregulatory action” in the history of US would be one of the unhealthiest.
The Trump administration has proposed curbing the government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases by unwinding rules that control emissions from fossil fuel drilling, power plants, and cars.
Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday announced the proposed rollback of a 2009 declaration that determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are a danger to public health and welfare.
“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end 16 years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” said Zeldin.
Earlier in the day, Zeldin said on the conservative “Ruthless” podcast that the rescission would be the “largest deregulatory action in the history of America,” which will “driv[e] a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion.”
The move is the latest effort by the Trump administration to pare back environmental standards, which it has framed as antithetical to economic growth and consumer choice.
Since returning to office in January, President Donald Trump has withdrawn the US from the Paris Agreement for the second time and ended all accompanying financial commitments. He has also suspended methane leak detection and cut electric vehicle incentives.
The so-called endangerment finding that the EPA proposed revoking on Tuesday forms the legal basis for the government’s authority to impose limits on certain emissions, which scientists say are responsible for climate change and health issues such as breathing problems.
It derives from a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that named greenhouse gases as “air pollutants,” giving the EPA the mandate to regulate them under the Clean Air Act.
Critics of the rule say that the Clean Air Act was fashioned to manage localized emissions, not those responsible for global climate change.
A rollback would automatically weaken the greenhouse gas emissions standards for cars and heavy-duty vehicles. Manufacturers such as Daimler and Volvo Cars have previously opposed the EPA’s efforts to tighten emission standards, while organized labour groups such as the American Trucking Association said they “put the trucking industry on a path to economic ruin.”
However, Katherine García, director of Sierra Club’s Clean Transportation for All Campaign, said that the ruling would be “disastrous for curbing toxic truck pollution, especially in frontline communities disproportionately burdened by diesel exhaust.”
Energy experts said the move could also stall progress on developing clean energy sources such as nuclear power.
“Bipartisan support for nuclear largely rests on the fact that it doesn’t have carbon emissions,” said Ken Irvin, a partner in Sidley Austin’s global energy and infrastructure practice. “If carbon stops being considered to endanger human welfare, that might take away momentum from nuclear.”
The proposed rule from the EPA will go through a public comment period and inter-agency review. It is likely to face legal challenges from environmental activists.
It’s a shame and desqusting, sickening that it has taken this long for this stupid communist fake science, global warming-climate change(whatever fear mind control name the idiots can come up with) is hopefully maybe in America is coming to an end! All the money that has been and still is being scammed from the lies, money it has cost all of us, the country, the businesses that it has destroyed, lives destroy, (none saved!) Weakened our nations ability to defend itself, endangering all of us! These are all facts! The so called climate people are identical to the highly dummd down demorats, they are brain dead idiots especially the globalist so called elites that push these fake paid off weak fake scientist (their puppet minions) global warming climate change lies! It is hard to even believe that people are so stupid, to think that they can stick a smog pump or filter up their rear end, to control the weather, and some how control the air! Another FACT that this writer and most do ignore and or never mention which is by far our biggest threat is weather modifications (control) by. governments world wide, and all waste and pollution from the wars these stupid people that run them cause and are causing! FACT the distance the earth rotates in relation to the sun controls 99.9% + of the temperature on our planet! The only other is weather modification be these idiot governments! I could go on and on! The climate change idiot scared brainwashed communist people that want to save themselves all they have to do is wear a mask all the time 24 hours a day, so put you mask on and shut your mouth, go back to grammar school, some other school than the one you went to before? The rest of us pickup your phone and pen and contact the epa fake communist protection agency, and the tax consuming public Servants and demand this anti fossil fuel save the planet regulations be permanently removed and fixed to where it can NEVER be allowed to come back by any other stupid communist sicko that thinks someone died and made them king! (orGOD), or kiss your future goodbye!