Posted on 03/15/2025 4:08:35 AM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
The Environmental Protection Agency's plan to repeal or weaken more than two dozen regulations could deliver a direct blow to California policies on air and water quality standards, electric vehicle initiatives and efforts to curb planet-harming greenhouse gas emissions.
The changes announced this week are geared toward rolling back trillions of dollars in regulatory costs and hidden taxes on U.S. families, according to President Trump's new EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, who described the action on Wednesday as "the largest deregulatory announcement in U.S. history."
"This isn't just a step backward — it's a wrecking ball aimed at decades of progress," said Guillermo Ortiz, senior clean vehicles advocate with the Natural Resources Defense Council. "California's leadership on clean energy and environmental justice is now directly under siege by the federal government."
Among the 31 items up for reconsideration is the EPA's long-held conclusion that carbon dioxide emissions endanger human health and welfare, formally known as the "endangerment finding" established in 2009.
Zeldin referred to the endangerment finding as "the holy grail of the climate change religion."
"We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion," he said.
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“We are driving a dagger straight into the heart of the climate change religion”
Zeldin is doing it right.
He says the correct things and then he does the right things—quickly—with no excuses.
This is exactly what we want from every administration appointee.
The dog is now wagging the tail instead of the other way ‘round...
Or ...
GOOD!!!
“it’s a wrecking ball aimed at decades of progress,”. Progress? What “progress” is wingnut referring to? Wildfires like never before due to no fire management, lack of funding and resources? Scare tactic weather forecasting? Cities underwater? Blah, blah, blah. Typical far left frantic looney.
The Natural Resources Defense Council. A Marxist organization that likely received tens of millions from the USAID. Tear it all down. Brick by brick.
I think California has proven that their ‘climate change’ laws are crap and don’t protect anything, other than the status quo
https://youtu.be/-eSLl2y8gDY?si=czHhtZi9fNEdwc4A
One word: GOOD!
While the EPA change represents Un enforcement
by the federal government, it does not mean the states can not still enforce state laws that may exist as a result of the federal regulations.
Ooh the burn, pun intended.
Isn’t it amazing that California wants to micromanage pollution when it comes to companies which directly controls people choices and lives but refuses to clean up homeless camps which have no facilities. The waste just flows into waterways case pollution and illness……. oh killing fish! I thought all fish were precious?
If you want an electric vehicle then by all means throw your money away. Don’t force me to buy an electric vehicle, and don’t force me to buy you an electric vehicle. You can be stupid all by yourself.
16 years is "long held"?
Furthermore, how is something every animal on the planet produces through breathing "endangering anything? Carbon dioxide is what plants require to live, and we are near the lower limits now on atmospheric CO2 concentrations for healthy plants.
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