The Trump administration is planning to wipe away the foundation that supported Obama-era regulations on greenhouse gasses, according to a new report.
According to The Wall Street Journal, the so-called “endangerment finding” of 2009 that labeled six greenhouse gasses as a threat to public health and welfare will be overturned.
The finding gave the Environmental Protection Agency legal authority to limit emissions from power plants and vehicles.
“This amounts to the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said.
The final rule is expected to be made public this week, the Journal wrote.
The Journal said the rule “removes the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify and comply with federal greenhouse-gas emission standards for motor vehicles, and repeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions and reporting obligations for industries,” citing administration officials it did not name as the source of the report.
The new rule will not directly overturn regulations on power plant emissions but could be a first step in that direction, The Journal report said.
Trump began the process on the day he became president by directing the EPA to determine if the finding should remain in place. In July, the EPA first proposed rescinding the finding.
The report said the officials it did not name estimated removing the finding would reduce costs of compliance by about $1 trillion.
“More energy drives human flourishing,” Interior Secretary Doug Burgum said. “Energy abundance is the thing that we have to focus on, not regulating certain forms of energy out.”
On Wednesday, Trump is scheduled to announce an executive order directing the War Department to buy electricity from coal-fired power plants.
Trump has made no secret of his support for wiping away regulations that constrict America’s energy supplying.
“My Administration is committed to unleashing American energy, especially through the removal of all illegitimate impediments to the identification, development, siting, production, investment in, or use of domestic energy resources — particularly oil, natural gas, coal, hydropower, geothermal, biofuel, critical mineral, and nuclear energy resources,” Trump wrote in a 2025 fact sheet*.
* https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/04/protecting-american-energy-from-state-overreach/
“An affordable and reliable domestic energy supply is essential to the national and economic security of the United States, as well as our foreign policy. Simply put, Americans are better off when the United States is energy dominant.”
Last month, Trump tweaked the climate change crowd over the extreme cold that hit the U.S.
“Record Cold Wave expected to hit 40 States. Rarely seen anything like it before. Could the Environmental Insurrectionists please explain — WHATEVER HAPPENED TO GLOBAL WARMING???” Trump wrote on Truth Social.
This article appeared originally on The Western Journal.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2026/02/trump-admin-repeal-obama-era-climate-rule-largest/
About time! Earth has mechanisms that we really don't understand that will clean the environment. Coal is a natural substance and is not foreign to life. To give an example: There was a creosote plant just North of Portland on the Willamette river that coated power-poles, railroad ties, piers and other items. It had been operating since before WW2 and during the 70s when all the environmental idiots came out of the woodwork and EPA and wacko save the planet group sued them into closing and bankruptcy. The site was declared a Super Fund Site and the court case took over twenty years to settle. When the bankrupt company and EPA went back to the site that was yes, contaminated with creosote to to retake samples to determine again how contaminated it was found that the level on the land and adjacent river had dropped so low after the twenty years of litigation that it was almost below so called "acceptable" background contamination. It was determined that microbes, that there are some that love to eat hydrocarbon chemicals(full of energy) had multiplied and quietly eat the creosote and other chemicals at the site. So yes,, Earth will repair what most of what we do to it naturally.
ReplyDeleteThat's awesome.
DeleteThere are quite a few stories like that, that are coming out now that the 'climate fearmongering' is getting the beat-down it deserves.
I am thrilled with that return to common sense.
ReplyDeleteMore, please.
YES !! MORE PLEASE !
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