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EPA tells White House to strike down landmark climate finding
The Washington Post via MSN ^ | February 26, 2025 | by Maxine Joselow

Posted on 02/26/2025 4:00:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has privately urged the White House to strike down a scientific finding underpinning much of the federal government’s push to combat climate change, according to three people briefed on the matter.

The 2009 “endangerment finding” cleared the way for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act by concluding that the planet-warming gases pose a threat to public health and welfare. Both the Obama and Biden administrations used that determination to set strict limits on emissions from cars and power plants.

By repealing the endangerment finding, the Trump administration would be taking one of its most consequential steps yet to derail federal climate efforts. In recent days, the administration has also blocked work that is central to international climate research and barred federal scientists and diplomats from attending a major climate event in China.

EPA officials weighed whether to reverse the endangerment finding during President Donald Trump’s first term but opted not to do so.

Conservatives have argued that repealing the finding is critical to unraveling what they see as burdensome limits on emissions from various sectors of the economy. Environmentalists, in contrast, say the finding has justified stronger regulations that have yielded enormous benefits for the planet and public health.

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: endangermentfinding; globalwarming; hoax; maxinejoselow; notscientific; policyisntscience; propaganda; socialism; washingtonpost
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1 posted on 02/26/2025 4:00:55 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do it! End the scam. Refute the phony studies which are at its core. This has gone on long enough.


2 posted on 02/26/2025 4:07:10 AM PST by Blennos ( Byaasearepeat itnbelow. SAMARIA )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Exhalant, plant food CO2 is tired of the bad rap it’s been getting over the Obama-Biden years.

H2O vapor has been stressing out, thinking—I’m next!


3 posted on 02/26/2025 4:08:15 AM PST by one guy in new jersey
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Not a day goes by where there isn’t any winning. Is it possible to overdose on this much winning?


4 posted on 02/26/2025 4:08:24 AM PST by GrandJediMasterYoda (As long as Hillary Clinton remains free, the USA will never have equal justice under the law)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I assumed this was coming after last year’s landmark SC case that found agencies were wrongfully ‘making laws’ that congress had not codified.

Humans exhale CO2, for God’s sakes, and plants eat it up to grow food. The more the merrier.


5 posted on 02/26/2025 4:09:11 AM PST by chiller (Davey Crockett said: "Be sure you're right. Then go ahead'. I'll go ahead.)
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To: chiller

I’ve said forever that the earth is self balancing...more people means more Co2...cuz we gotta eat...


6 posted on 02/26/2025 4:13:29 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

According to Google, this was a finding by the EPA itself based on “overwhelming” scientific evidence.

Yeah, right. There was also overwhelming scientific evidence that mandated covid shots, wearing the stupid masks, and making fools of our selves with social distancing.

I’d like to see the Trump administration pick that so called overwhelming climate change evidence apart piece by piece to show the American public it was an obama scam. It needs to be done just to reeducate the public.


7 posted on 02/26/2025 4:13:37 AM PST by redfreedom (Happiness is shopping at Walmart and not hearing Spanish once!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
The earth is flat was also a scientific finding.

The sun revolves around the earth was also a scientific finding.

Problem remains...if co2 is reduced...what is filling in the void??

8 posted on 02/26/2025 4:15:57 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Do it and issue a statement that it was always a marxist hoax to grab power.


9 posted on 02/26/2025 4:17:25 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: chiller

The EPA and the world would be much better off if they concentrated more on “cleaning” the already polluted environment and stop wasting money on “climate change”.


10 posted on 02/26/2025 4:17:27 AM PST by Rlsau1
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I just read it. Doesn’t appear to be a law — just a term-paper type document by a old hippie. Can it be rescinded by EO? Does Senate and/or House have to be involved?


11 posted on 02/26/2025 4:19:36 AM PST by MayflowerMadam (It's hard not to celebrate the fall of bad people. - Bongino)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

CO2 is a plant growth stimulant, not a pollutant.

Convince me otherwise.


12 posted on 02/26/2025 4:25:01 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: FreedomPoster

Lol. The deniers will call You the denier. I’m so glad people are waking up.


13 posted on 02/26/2025 4:28:37 AM PST by Kudsman (We shall come rejoicing, bringing in the sheaves. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I can’t see where the radical environmentalits have yielded any “enormous benefits” for the country. They have however yielded plenty of problems.


14 posted on 02/26/2025 4:31:54 AM PST by oldtech
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

This is a global scam to which the American tax payer is being bled dry, end it now Mr Trump


15 posted on 02/26/2025 4:35:09 AM PST by ronnie raygun
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Excellent.

5.56mm


16 posted on 02/26/2025 4:36:33 AM PST by M Kehoe (Thank you Jesus. )
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“Environmentalists, in contrast, say the finding has justified stronger regulations that have yielded enormous benefits for the planet and public health.”

No.
Just enormous benefits for the Watermelon Whackos, AKA Environmental NGO.


17 posted on 02/26/2025 4:38:03 AM PST by Cletus.D.Yokel (Catastrophic Anthropogenic Climate Alteration; The acronym defines the science.)
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To: Blennos
EPA tells White House...

Wag the Dog comes to mind.

18 posted on 02/26/2025 4:41:30 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Sacajaweau

Uh...
Carbon and Oxygen?


19 posted on 02/26/2025 4:42:29 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

End that national socialist BS crap called CC.


20 posted on 02/26/2025 4:42:48 AM PST by Mlheureux
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