The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it is formally moving to end the rule allowing the agency to
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced Tuesday that it is formally moving to end the rule allowing the agency to regulate greenhouse gasses, which will allow greater consumer choice, cut transportation costs and benefit the American energy industry, energy policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Tuesday that the agency proposed a rule to roll back the Obama-era regulation, which the Trump administration and industry experts argue stands on weak scientific evidence and has been used to impose harsh rules on power plants and vehicles in the name of fighting climate change. If the rule’s repeal is finalized, the key basis for a number of aggressive climate regulations will be gone, which will in turn translate to more consumer freedom and lower costs, experts told the DCNF.
“Dismantling the Endangerment Finding removes the foundation of which the Green New Scam was built,” Mandy Gunasekara, a former EPA chief of staff under the first Trump administration, told the DCNF. “The Endangerment Finding has been used by Democrats to re-engineer the economy, sell out U.S. jobs to high-polluting countries like China and burden American families with expensive energy and goods. This ends today.”
The agency argued that the Endangerment Finding has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-era electric vehicle (EV) mandate. If finalized, the rule would strip the agency’s ability to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act and would repeal the emissions standards for light, medium and heavy-duty vehicles as well as heavy duty engines, according to the EPA.
The vehicle standard roll backs would include the 2010 rules for light-duty vehicles and 2011 rules for medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles and engines, which includes credits for features like the controversial start-stop technology, the agency said Tuesday. Additionally, the proposal challenges the scientific backing of the Endangerment Finding and cites new data with updated studies from the Department of Energy’s (DOE) Climate Work Group that is also open for public comment, according to the EPA.
