Eliminating Endangerment Finding Clears the Air

Letter to Romans: Not that pollution’s ever a good thing BUT polluting the legal system with bogus environment science has finally been rectified. The EPA just trashed the climate change alarmists’ “endangerment finding” choking off our oxygen.

The Fox News opinion piece by Lee Zeldin was blunt: “For 16 years, the so-called Endangerment Finding has been the [policy & legal] weapon of choice for climate change zealots in Washington. Created by the Obama EPA in 2009, it [was used to] justify trillions of dollars in regulations, restricted which cars could be manufactured & drove up the cost of living for American families. It pushed this country toward an unpopular electric vehicle mandate, imposed crushing compliance requirements and promoted a new level of government overreach that has made hardworking Americans’ blood boil.” What Zeldin doesn’t mention, but could have, is that hundreds of court cases since literally turned on that “finding.”

The problem, as Zeldin points out, is that it was manufactured & based on presumed science that wrongly stretched the original Clean Air Act by claiming “carbon dioxide from tailpipes – combined with 5 other gases, some of which vehicles do not even emit – constituted ‘air pollution’ that contributed to global climate change & thereby endangered public health & welfare.” Never mind that the Clean Air Act was created & understood for decades to address pollution that directly harmed people’s health in their communities, not on a theory about global warming. As Zeldin argued, “the Obama-Biden administration twisted the law to seize power it was never given.” Eliminating the Endangerment Finding, he concluded, “will save the American taxpayers over $1.3 trillion … [or] … more than $2,400 per vehicle.” Climate lawyers will also be forced to find new theories to litigate over.

Davd Soul