Recommendable! Hopefully, President Trump will end the ridiculous endangerment finding regarding CO2!
Only fools and morons (many scientists included) declare that a life essential trace gas like CO2 is the cause of global warming/climate change! When ideology and superstition trump science!
This was also a grandiose failure of the US Supreme Court to go along!
This was perhaps one of the worst achievements of or a greatest drama created by President Obama!
"The Environmental Protection Agency’s reconsideration of its so-called “endangerment finding” is long overdue.
It was already true in 2009, when the endangerment finding was first established to regulate motor vehicle greenhouse gas emissions. Sixteen years of additional evidence later, it is even more evident. ...
In 2009, the EPA administrator determined that public health and welfare were threatened by the indirect impact of greenhouse gases as a driver of climate change. This marked the first time ever that the EPA had used a heretofore undiscovered “procedural discretion” to regulate such emissions, because the Clean Air Act was “silent on [the] issue.” ...
In Massachusetts v. EPA [in 2007], the U.S. Supreme Court opened the door to regulating greenhouse gases as pollutants. The court’s majority was rewriting law, not following it as written by Congress. Congress has directly considered bills to regulate greenhouse gases, adopting none of them. When those bills were considered, no one suggested that the EPA already had such authority under the Clean Air Act.
The Massachusetts v. EPA ruling was nothing more nor less than the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade moment in the realm of environmental policy. The court gave individuals and states the right to force the federal government to adopt regulations, even though under the Constitution, only Congress has legislative authority and is the only branch of government delegated the power to regulate interstate commerce.
Recently, in West Virginia v. EPA [in 2022], the Supreme Court reexamined the scope of EPA authority with regard to “major questions.” According to the ruling, the EPA “exceeded its statutory authority when it interpreted the Clean Air Act to require …. permitting for stationary sources based on their greenhouse gas emissions” and “may not treat greenhouse gases as a pollutant.” ..."
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