‘Largest deregulatory action in history’: Zeldin rescinds Obama-era ‘endangerment’ finding

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Tuesday that he will rescind the Obama-era endangerment finding declaration in what he said will be the “largest deregulatory action in the history of America.”

The endangerment finding declaration said that carbon monoxide, methane and other greenhouse gases endanger human lives, and is central to the climate change agenda that has been pushed by the left since that time.

According to Politico, “The finding has provided a legal basis for EPA rules on climate pollution from cars, power plants and energy development for 16 years.”

A “dagger” in climate change “religion”

Zeldin made the announcement on the “Ruthless” podcast, saying that his action to rescind the regulation would drive “a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion.”

“A lot of people are out there listening, they might not know what the endangerment finding is. If you ask congressional Democrats to describe what it is, the left would say that it means that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, carbon dioxide is an endangerment to human health. They might say methane is a pollutant, methane is an endangerment to human health,” Zeldin said.

“That’s an oversimplified, I would say inaccurate way to describe it,” Zeldin continued. “The Obama administration said that carbon dioxide, when mixed with a bunch of other well-mixed gasses, greenhouse gasses, that it contributes to climate change. How much? They don’t say… they say that climate change engenders human health, so because of these different mental leaps… then there were all sorts of vehicle regulations that followed.”

Podcast host Josh Holmes called the endangerment finding “the hub to the spoke of the left’s environmental agenda, essentially.”

The fraud

Zeldin claimed that people on the left are funneling money to their friends in the name of environmental issues, but they aren’t actually doing anything to take care of the environment.

“Most Americans, we care about the environment, we want clean air, land and water. Conservatives love the environment, want to be good stewards of the environment. There are people who then, in the name of climate change, are willing to bankrupt the country,” he continued. “In the name of environmental justice, they will get tens of billions of dollars appropriated to their friends rather than actually remediating environmental issues.”

“It costs Americans a lot of money,” Zeldin said of the regulation. “So, it’s kind of a big deal.”

Co-host Comfortably Smug called the regulation “the first step into opening up the Pandora’s box of insanity” regarding climate change.

“I hope everyone appreciates, this is a true game-changer,” Smug said.

“It’s projected to save Americans over $1 trillion,” he added. “This is a huge victory for the American people.”

“Overboard”

Zeldin said the repeal of the endangerment finding will lead to job creation and more affordability for some products, like cars.

He pointed out that carbon dioxide plays an important role in the health of the planet, in the right amounts. It is required for photosynthesis and to make plants, a.k.a. food sources, grow.

The left went “overboard” in classifying it only as a pollutant that endangers lives, he said.

Zeldin acknowledged that emissions are down in the U.S. over the last 20 years and said the Trump EPA would embrace innovations in energy that could yield cleaner fuels.

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