EPA Chief Lee Zeldin to Repeal Obama’ $1 Trillion Green-Reg Machine, “Most Significant Deregulatory Action in U.S. history.”

Lee Zeldin will revoke the Obama-era endangerment finding, marking it as the “most significant deregulatory action in U.S. history.”

The EPA is launching the “largest deregulatory action in the histroy of the United States” by repealing Obama’s emissions regulations.

“To eliminate all of the greenhouse gas emissions regulations…$1 TRILLION worth of savings.”

This is massive.

The Trump EPA is proposing the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States, by repealing the 2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Finding, all the GHG regulations on vehicles that followed, and the much despised start/stop feature.

The Trump EPA’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Finding heeds the emphatic demands of the American public to follow the law, unshackle our economy, reign in bureaucratic overreach, lower costs, recognize just how much American innovation has sharply risen, and defend consumer freedom.(Lee Zeldin)

Donald Trump campaigned on rolling back regulatory intrusions on American production, especially in energy and manufacturing. [EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin] will follow through on that promise by aiming to end the EPA’s 2009 “endangerment finding” that expanded the EPA’s reach on ‘climate change’-related activities. Zeldin promised to do that as soon as he got confirmed as EPA Administrator, and Axios reports that Zeldin will launch that effort very soon … Zeldin has to take his time and ensure that this process follows all of the Administrative Procedure Act rubrics. It won’t help matters to rush this effort and produce a sloppy record that gives district court judges a technicality to reverse this effort rather than address it on the merits. If successful, this will give Trump another step in recovering his constitutional executive authority and force legislative activity back to Congress rather than abdicating it to special interests and the plaintiff’s bar. And that is a reform that is very much overdue  (Hot Air).

EPA To Rescind Obama’s Carbon Decree; The $1 Trillion Green-Reg Machine Faces Oblivion

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin unveiled a rule to rescind the 2009 “Endangerment Finding,” the legal linchpin that let bureaucrats impose more than $1 trillion in greenhouse-gas mandates, including Biden’s electric-vehicle edict.

If finalized, the repeal wipes out every CO₂ tailpipe rule since 2010, scraps start-stop gimmicks, and saves Americans roughly $54 billion a year while restoring full consumer choice in light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles.

Sixteen years of climate alarmism have kneecapped factories, hollowed out mining towns, and jacked up the price of everything delivered by truck.

Trump’s EPA just swung the wrecking ball through that green command-and-control palace, handing Main Street its biggest regulatory liberation in a generation.

Cue the eco-lobby screams—but for once, working families, not Davos, get the win (Walter Curt)

The Trump EPA is proposing the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States, by repealing the 2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Finding, all the GHG regulations on vehicles that followed, and the much despised start/stop feature. 

In doing so, we will follow Supreme… pic.twitter.com/3mBgfGA4qA

— Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) July 29, 2025

Trump 2.0 is moving decisively to remedy what Trump 1.0 fell short on—PERMANENCE. The 2nd term Trump administration, led by EPA’s Lee Zeldin (the most consequential EPA chief in the agency’s history!), realizes this time around that issuing executive orders and changing the regulatory rules of the EPA are not enough. Instead, Trump’s second term is focusing on implementing permanence in climate and energy policy. By removing the CO2 Endangerment Finding (regulating CO2 as a pollutant under the Clean Air Act) from our lives, it removes the basis for all of the climate nonsense that we’ve had to endure for the last several decades. Everything from gas-powered appliance bans, gas-powered car bans, to restrictions on agricultural, meat, power plants, travel, ceiling fans, pizza ovens, energy mandates, subsidies, and thermostat controls” (Climate Depot).

EPA chief Lee Zeldin to repeal ‘holy grail’ Obama-era emissions finding that hiked energy costs for years

By Josh Christenson, NY Post, July 29, 2025:

WASHINGTON — Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin is moving to repeal an Obama-era emissions finding he once dubbed the “holy grail of the climate change religion” that underpinned $1 trillion in regulations — leading to higher energy costs for more than a decade.

Zeldin revealed plans to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding during a speech at an Indianapolis auto dealership on Tuesday, promising to “end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers” with “the largest deregulatory announcement in US history.”

“In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year,” said the former Long Island congressman.

“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” EPA Administrator

“We heard loud and clear the concern that EPA’s GHG [greenhouse gas] emissions standards themselves, not carbon dioxide — which the Finding never assessed independently — was the real threat to Americans’ livelihoods,” Zeldin went on. “If finalized, rescinding the Endangerment Finding and resulting regulations would end $1 trillion or more in hidden taxes on American businesses and families.”

The EPA has projected that rescinding the finding could save American consumers alone up to $54 billion in annual costs.
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Under Obama, the EPA determined that carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride emissions, primarily from cars, were threatening to the “public health and welfare of current and future generations.”

No immediate regulations were imposed but the finding allowed the 44th president’s administration to put forward seven subsequent rules affecting the auto industry, as well as others touching on energy issues.

Zeldin’s proposal would scrap the finding that allowed both Obama’s and former President Joe Biden’s EPA to regulate emissions by vehicles that are light-, medium- and heavy-duty as well as those with heavy-duty engines under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act.

Zeldin revealed plans to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding by former President Barack Obama’s EPA during a speech at an Indianapolis auto dealership on Tuesday. Getty Images

The rules began taking effect for light-duty vehicles — including cars, vans, SUVs and pickup trucks — in 2010 but later ramped up to cover all models. Biden used it to justify his push for mass production of electric vehicles during his administration.

“This electric-truck mandate put the trucking industry on a path to economic ruin and would have crippled our supply chain, disrupted deliveries, and raised prices for American families and businesses,” said American Trucking Association President Chris Spear, who joined Zeldin at the event alongside Energy Secretary Chris Wright and Indiana GOP Gov. Mike Braun.

“Moreover, it kicked innovation to the curb by discarding available technologies that can further drive down emissions at a fraction of the cost.”
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Under Obama, the EPA determined carbon dioxide as well as methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons and sulfur hexafluoride emissions, primarily from cars, were threatening to public health. Tricky Shark – stock.adobe.com

Democrats in Congress panned the move, with Rep. Frank Pallone (D-NJ), the ranking member on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, telling Politico it amounted to “a despicable betrayal of the American people.”

“President Trump and his EPA administrator are now pretending that climate pollution does not endanger human health or the environment — not because there is any scientific justification, but because it helps line the pockets of their billionaire corporate polluter friends,” Pallone said.

The reversal comes as Zeldin is seeking to cut red tape for other energy-related issues.

Several recent US Supreme Court cases have aided Trump’s EPA leader in limiting the agency’s regulatory authority — including scrapping emissions standards that controlled coal and gas power plants generating electricity.

The White House Office of Management and Budget is also planning on addressing rescission of the Obama-era finding at other agencies.

“Since the Obama EPA illegally issued its unconstitutional endangerment finding in 2009, more than half of the US coal industry has been destroyed, electricity prices have soared, and the average price of cars has almost doubled,” said Steve Milloy, senior fellow at the Energy and Environment Legal Institute and an adviser to Trump’s EPA transition team.

“Where do wrongly terminated coal miners, wrecked coal industry-dependent communities and ripped-off consumers go for redress of the injuries inflicted by a climate-hoaxed crazed federal government?”
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