{"id":2408603,"date":"2025-03-02T11:33:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:33:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-epa-head-lee-zeldin-needs-to-undue-the-endangerment-finding\/"},"modified":"2025-03-02T11:39:35","modified_gmt":"2025-03-02T16:39:35","slug":"trumps-epa-head-lee-zeldin-needs-to-undue-the-endangerment-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trumps-epa-head-lee-zeldin-needs-to-undue-the-endangerment-finding\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump&#8217;s EPA Head Lee Zeldin Needs to Undue the &#8216;Endangerment Finding&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ftrumps-epa-head-lee-zeldin-needs-to-undue-the-endangerment-finding%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2408603&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>The passage discusses an executive order signed\u2062 by president Donald trump \u200daimed at reassessing the Environmental Protection AgencyS (EPA) 2009 Endangerment Finding,\u2062 which determined that \u2064<a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/france-isnt-meeting-its-own-paris-climate-accord-commitments\/\" title=\"France Isn\u2019t Meeting Its Own Paris Climate Accord Commitments\">carbon dioxide emissions<\/a> are harmful to human health and the environment. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin \u200chas been tasked \u2064with\u2063 this review. Critics \u200bargue that the\u200d finding, which is foundational for many climate regulations, is based on flawed interpretations of the \u200cClean\u2063 air Act and unsupported by independent research. The article emphasizes that the \u2062ruling has led to \u2064a contentious regulatory environment, with fluctuating policies across \u2064diffrent administrations.\u2062 It highlights that regulations\u200b based on \u200bthe Endangerment Finding have resulted in \u2062economic consequences such \u200bas increased energy costs\u2063 and limited consumer choices due to a push\u2062 for\u200c renewable resources. The writer calls \u200cfor the withdrawal of the\u200b Endangerment\u2063 Finding to dismantle the legal foundation for these climate-related policies, \u200bhoping for a\u2062 shift towards energy dominance. \u2064the piece reflects skepticism about climate change as a factor that significantly endangers health and underscores the \u200ddebate over government regulations on\u200b emissions.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<section> \t\t\t\t<script>console.log(\"ad slot (AC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC1)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC2)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC3)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (IC4)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_0)\")<\/script><script>console.log(\"ad slot (REP_1)\")<\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the direction of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/unleashing-american-energy\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/01\/unleashing-american-energy\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740860716827000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0_KDzdKb8NJVIsSw2EEtTU\">an executive order<\/a>&nbsp;signed by President Donald Trump on his first day back in office, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin was charged with reconsidering whether the EPA&rsquo;s finding that emissions of carbon dioxide endanger human health, welfare, or the environment (the Endangerment Finding) is valid and merits continued support.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Zeldin reported his determination and recommendations to Trump last week, but they have not been publicly released.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Critics of the federal effort to limit fossil fuel use and restrict greenhouse gas emissions in the vain effort to prevent climate change &ndash; which humans don&rsquo;t control by the way &ndash; have long decried the Endangerment Finding, recognizing it serves as the foundation for nearly all federal climate rules since 2009.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climate-change\/endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climate-change\/endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740860716827000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0Y46a4yBmIDBzNkh8lydoe\">Endangerment Finding<\/a>&nbsp;was based on a gross and unjustified expansion of the reach of the Clean Air Act as interpreted by the U.S. Supreme Court in the 2007 case&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/549\/497\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/supreme.justia.com\/cases\/federal\/us\/549\/497\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740860716827000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3luHJlBaLsysjkb7cJ722X\"><em>Massachusetts v. EPA<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Massachusetts sued the EPA for not regulating greenhouse gas emissions, specifically carbon dioxide, from mobile sources as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/in-debate-governor-will-answer-to-constituents-for-plans-to-make-wyoming-carbon-negative\/\" title=\"Governor to be held accountable for Wyoming&#039;s &#039;carbon negative&#039; plans in Debate.\">pollutant causing climate change<\/a>, which the state argued threatened it and its people via higher seas and worsening weather. The EPA argued that under the Clean Air Act (CAA) it had no authority to regulate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/senate-votes-strike-bidens-aggressive-vehicle-emissions-rule-several-democrats-jump-ship\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CO2 emissions<\/a> because they weren&rsquo;t considered pollution under the law.<\/p>\n<p> <script type=\"text\/javascript\"> \t\t\tif ( getCookie( \"ff_subbed\" ) ) { \t\t\t\tdocument.getElementById(\"stnvideo\").remove() \t\t\t} \t\t<\/script> <\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Court took the occasion to expand the law beyond its wording and intention, rewriting the Clean Air Act to essentially define anything emitted into the air as a pollutant and thus subject to EPA regulation if the agency finds it endangers human health. Under this interpretation of the law, when a person exhales or belches, they are polluting.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Because <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/blackrocks-stand-fossil-fuels-now-costing-big-way-texas-makes-move\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">fossil fuels<\/a> are the lifeblood of the economy, under the U.S. Supreme Court&rsquo;s interpretation of the CAA, the EPA has become an authoritarian czar, with the levers of the entire economy in its hands. The U.S. Constitution countenanced no single branch of government, much less a single unaccountable agency under one branch of the government, to wield such unchecked power.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">One of the main authors of the Clean Air Act, the late-Rep. John Dingell (D-MI), said&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/opinion\/kalamazoo\/2011\/06\/viewpoint_congress_never_inten.html\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.mlive.com\/opinion\/kalamazoo\/2011\/06\/viewpoint_congress_never_inten.html&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740860716827000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0juQ0uHDrEZFk5-vSE_v09\">the CAA was never intended<\/a>&nbsp;to apply to naturally occurring atmospheric gases like CO2, oxygen, and H<sub>2<\/sub>O. It was certainly not intended to combat so-called climate change. Dingell noted that Congress had explicitly considered climate change legislation on serval occasions and never passed anything.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, the ruling came down and under then-President George W. Bush, the EPA failed to issue an Endangerment Finding. Eventually, under President Barack Obama, the EPA ruled CO2 endangered human health and thus had to be controlled.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This came after Congress had failed to pass a climate bill Obama had supported. What he couldn&rsquo;t get through Congress Obama pushed through the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trumps-epa-chief-found-gold-bars-bidens-team-hid-20-billion-set-aside-thwart-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">EPA<\/a>, legislating through the stroke of a pen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Multiple groups attempted to block or overturn the Endangerment Finding, arguing it was based on a faulty interpretation of the Clean Air Act and that CO2 did not endanger human health at any foreseeable level.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Concerning the latter point, they pointed out the Endangerment Finding was not based on independent research conducted by the EPA, which <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">discovered identifiable health problems caused<\/a> by additional CO2 in the atmosphere.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Rather, the EPA relied on computer model projections promoted by the U.N. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which asserted that rising greenhouse gases would, sometime in the next century, cause all manner of catastrophes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The problem is the computer models used by the IPCC and cited by EPA were and remain flawed, unable to accurately project temperature changes in relation to CO2. Also, predictions of disaster have proven wrong time and again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In fact, the IPCC&rsquo;s claims about CO2-induced <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/biden-administration-give-unprecedented-15-billion-climate-change-handout-california-company-report\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a>, like more severe hurricanes, droughts, flooding, wildfires, accelerating sea level rise, the loss of polar bears, etc., based upon these models change from report to report and provide no reliable basis for public policy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Data, in fact, identify <a href=\"https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/climateataglance.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740860716827000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1cLkohJSCZtR5-vCM6Lj13\">no worsening weather trends<\/a>&nbsp;in relation to climate change &ndash; droughts, hurricanes, tornadoes, wildfires, flooding, heatwaves, etc. are not getting worse, despite IPCC projections saying they should be.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since the Endangerment Finding&rsquo;s inception, there has been a regulatory back-and-forth between administrations and the courts concerning regulations based upon it.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Obama issued power plant regulations; pipeline and infrastructure rules; coal, oil, and gas restrictions; and fuel economy standards based on it, each of which blocked development, consumer choice, and restricted energy use.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">States and interest groups <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-epa-ruling-2e893673819a1b6c6aa272a5e814f0b0\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/supreme-court-epa-ruling-2e893673819a1b6c6aa272a5e814f0b0&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740860716827000&amp;usg=AOvVaw20sb_AbKZVLfuYgL7cXrA7\">challenged each of these efforts in federal courts<\/a>, which delayed, enjoined, or blocked most of them, ruling variously that the regulations were not allowed under the sections of the law claimed, or that they went beyond the scope of the law and were likely to be overturned by the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/trump-releases-fiery-statement-contentious-meeting-zelenskyy-disrespected-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Trump<\/a> issued his own rules for power plants, vehicles, energy, and infrastructure development, which were challenged by different sets of states and interest groups. Some courts blocked these efforts, suggesting they did not comport with the Endangerment Finding.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biden took office and reversed course again, issuing even stricter rules on power plants, vehicle emissions, and infrastructure projects while <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/clean-energy-proponent-now-sounding-alarm-lack-fossil-fuels-europe-enters-winter\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">restricting fossil fuels<\/a>. Fortunately, most of these actions were ruled unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the meantime, automobile companies, utilities, energy firms, and appliance manufacturers had to plan for the future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">They make long-term plans concerning investments. Driven by fear and uncertainty concerning the scope of the Endangerment Finding, they implemented plans that catered to big government&rsquo;s demand to put climate concerns at the forefront. This has been a disaster, making profitability and consumer satisfaction secondary concerns to the government&rsquo;s climate mania.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In the automobile industry, for instance, this resulted in a push for electric vehicles that has cost the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.motor1.com\/news\/749914\/ford-predicts-lose-billions-electric-cars\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.motor1.com\/news\/749914\/ford-predicts-lose-billions-electric-cars\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740860716827000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3U336nn35xGJmtFapPDY8f\">industry billions of dollars<\/a>&nbsp;&ndash; malinvestments based on political pressure, as opposed to practicality and real market demand.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Across the economy, with the Endangerment Finding looming in the policy background, fossil fuel use has been reduced while renewable energy sources and speculative technologies have been heavily subsidized. The result has been&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/12\/us-news\/electricity-costs-soar-under-biden-administrationenergy-prices-soar-under-biden-administration\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/nypost.com\/2024\/04\/12\/us-news\/electricity-costs-soar-under-biden-administrationenergy-prices-soar-under-biden-administration\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1740860716827000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1qSIFzEdaSJ0WJte6uhDsC\">higher prices<\/a>, fewer choices for average people, and less reliable energy throughout the nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Although the Endangerment Finding is not the original sin vis-&agrave;-vis the climate change false alarm, it does serve as the cornerstone for misguided federal and state policies. If it goes, the legal justification for such policies collapses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here&rsquo;s hoping that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/lee-zeldin-announces-decision-rnc-chair-run-time-gop-elects-new-leadership\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Zeldin<\/a> recognizes, based on real climate research, that the Endangerment Finding was never justified, and that it stands in the way of President Trump&rsquo;s push for energy dominance. The time to withdraw the EPA&rsquo;s toxic carbon dioxide Endangerment Finding is now!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><i><b>The views expressed in this opinion article are those of their author and are not necessarily either d or endorsed by the owners of this website. 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Zeldin submitted his findings and recommendations to Trump last week, but they have not been made public. Critics of federal efforts to limit fossil fuel use argue that the Endangerment Finding is flawed and serves as a basis for most federal climate regulations since 2009. The finding was established following a Supreme Court ruling in 2007 that expanded the Clean Air Act&#8217;s scope beyond its original intent, allowing for regulation of any substance emitted into the air if deemed harmful. This interpretation has led to significant regulatory power for the EPA over various sectors of the economy. The original author of the Clean Air Act, Rep. John Dingell, stated it was never meant to apply to naturally occurring gases like CO2 or address climate change directly.<\/p>\n<p>The Endangerment Finding has faced legal challenges from various groups arguing it relies on questionable interpretations and models rather than independent research by the EPA itself. These models have often failed to accurately predict climate-related disasters attributed to CO2 emissions. Since its inception, there has been ongoing regulatory conflict between different administrations regarding energy policies based on this finding.<\/p>\n<p>Under President Obama, strict regulations were implemented based on this finding after Congress failed to pass related legislation; these were challenged in court with mixed results across administrations. President Biden reinstated even stricter rules before many were deemed unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>As companies adjusted their long-term plans amid uncertainty surrounding these regulations, many shifted focus towards electric vehicles due to government pressure\u2014resulting in significant financial losses within industries like automotive manufacturing.<\/p>\n<p>Overall, while fossil fuel usage has decreased under these policies leading toward renewable energy investments\u2014often resulting in higher costs and fewer choices for consumers\u2014the Endangerment Finding remains central as a legal justification for such measures. There are hopes that Zeldin will recognize its lack of justification based on actual climate research and support withdrawing it entirely from policy considerations now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2408604,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Michael-Featured-Image-2025-02-28T133757.668.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[51381,10732,49444,3634],"class_list":["post-2408603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-endangerment-finding","tag-epa","tag-lee-zeldin","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.westernjournal.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Michael-Featured-Image-2025-02-28T133757.668.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2408603"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2408607,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2408603\/revisions\/2408607"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2408604"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2408603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2408603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2408603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}