EPA Revokes CO2 'Endangerment Finding': A Win for Science?
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The EPA is reportedly set to revoke its controversial 2009 "endangerment finding" concerning CO2, a pivotal decision that served as the foundation for federal greenhouse gas regulations. This significant move, championed by EPA Director Lee Zeldon, signals a major shift away from a policy that many critics argue granted the agency excessive power.
According to the speaker, this reversal is a welcome development, as CO2 is essential for plant growth, photosynthesis, and the overall "regreening" of Earth, not a threat to public health. They contend the original finding was based on flawed science, promoting "insane schemes" while overlooking the vital role CO2 plays in our ecosystem.
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So according to numerous news reports, including the Wall Street Journal, the EPA is finally about to revoke the 2009 so-called endangerment finding. And this is under EPA director Lee Zeldon, who is one of the few administration officials that I've overall been pretty happy with because he stopped all these fraudulent grants that the EPA was sending out, which is just money laundering anyway. And now he's going to stop this endangerment finding. Now, the endangerment finding has been the pillar of all these laws of, you know, restricting uh engine combustion engine emissions and cracking down on energy use and demanding these insane impossible miles per gallon efficiencies from auto makers and things like that. The endangerment finding is essentially the the foundation for federal greenhouse gas regulation. And the finding had claimed this whole time that CO2, which is, you know, plant fertilizer, it's plant food in the air, that these gases quote threatened the public health and welfare of current and future generations. And thus from that endangerment finding alone, the EPA gave itself a massive amount of new power without any laws, without congressional approval, without voter approval. It gave itself new powers and this ...
