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.
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amazing how rapidly the climate is changing since trump’s inauguration...
Back in the 2009 timeframe they were insisting we would suffer environmental disaster by 2020. We’ve kept emitting more CO2 and lo and behold, we are not all dead or fled to the arctic tundra. How anyone can keep believing in climate alarmism after so many falsified predictions is beyond me.
This might be the best news of the month!
Global warming is good. Bring it on.
...and I am STILL wasting oxygen!
How dare you!/s
Yes.
It’s possible to win so extensively that others see way as the only effective counter.
If your victories span the globe, so will the resulting war.
If a 21st century war were to span the globe, the death toll would be immense, and worldwide food supply chains would be disrupted bringing famine
Too much winning could be outright Apocalyptic.
If it’s countered by endless whining, you might have comic relief taking the sting off the winning.
It’s actually very easy to stop the rising waters. Build dykes. The Dutch did it hundreds of years ago.
“Problem remains...if co2 is reduced...what is filling in the void??”
Nothing going from 430 parts per million to 180 parts per mile would do virtually zero to atmospheric pressure or density. Humans have been taking solid and carbon and liquid hydrocarbons from the ground and adding it to the sky as CO2 and H2O both gasses. The oxygen to do that came from water itself via photosynthesis primarily marine algae and plankton. Trees and forests are only 1/3 the majority is marine in origin. This is easy to prove the O16/18 ratio clearly shows ocean water as the source of most of atmospheric oxygen. This there has been a corresponding drop in partial O2 levels in line with rising CO2 but 200ppm when taken from 210,000ppm is insignificant and unnoticed except for mass spectrometry measurements.
Cows don’t fart. Plankton does. Gotta get the plankton to knock it off! Manners! Eww!
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