The EPA repealed rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions from coal and natural gas power plants

Good news! Bravo President Trump! Global warming is a hoax and climate change is a religion!

"... a move the agency said would help “unleash” American energy. Environmental groups vowed immediate court challenges."

"The EPA announced ... a final rule repealing regulations on carbon and toxic emissions from fossil fuel plants. The action would represent one of the Trump administration’s biggest blows yet against emissions reduction regulations put in place by Democrats. ..."

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EPA repeals [46th President] pollution rules for fossil fuel power plants

President Trump EPA Takes Transformative Approach to treating some plastic recycling as a form of manufacturing rather than waste disposal

Good news! It started already latest in April of 2026.

Of course, if recycling was good business, then private companies would already do it. This recycling effort probably will take a lot of government regulation and subsidies etc.

Almost every day you can read an article about the successful effective and efficient recycling of plastic by different means!

"The Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump has launched a quiet revolution in the approach the EPA takes toward some forms of plastic waste, removing regulatory barriers by treating some plastic recycling as a form of manufacturing rather than waste disposal.

The EPA’s new approach aims to incentivize advanced recycling of plastic, contributing to the economy while addressing the spread of plastic waste into oceans and other ecosystems. ...

The agency also highlighted a proposed rule to speed cleanup of the nation’s roughly 48 million abandoned scrap tires by making it easier to use recovered tires as fuel;

work on a federally required battery recycling framework; ongoing grants supporting recycling infrastructure; and

research into removing impurities from recycled materials so they can be used more consistently in industrial processes. ..."

"... “The world is moving on this, and quickly. Europe, which already has at least twice as many advanced recycling facilities as the U.S., is projected to have 65 by 2030. It is on track to lead the global market in revenue. And the Asia-Pacific region is emerging as the fastest-growing market for advanced recycling technology, with projected revenues of $7.3 billion by 2030. ..."

EPA Treats Plastic Waste as a Manufacturing Resource

ICYMI: Administrator Zeldin in The Hill: The Trump EPA has a Plan to ‘Unmake’ Plastic Waste

Trump admin says it returned Endangered Species Act to original intent by changing 'harm' definition

Good news! Bravo! What took so long! Should have happened on day one in office!

"... This reform is based on the Supreme Court’s 2024 decision in Loper Bright v. Raimondo, which requires agencies to follow the single best meaning of a statute rather than contorting laws to fit political agendas. Using the legally justifiable standard, the Services determined that the prior definition of “harm” was an unlawful regulatory intrusion that interfered with private property rights. ..."

"... The Commerce and Interior Departments said they are rescinding the "outdated" regulatory definition of "harm," stating it will no longer interpret “harm” of a protected species to include modifications to a plant or animal’s habitat that could be detrimental to its survival.

The departments argued that previous administrations "weaponized" the word to block energy production, logging, infrastructure projects and private citizens' land use. ..."

Trump admin says it returned Endangered Species Act to original intent by changing 'harm' definition | Just The News "The departments argued that previous administrations "weaponized" the word to block energy production, logging, infrastructure projects and private citizens' land use."

Department of the Interior Restores Clear ESA Enforcement by Rescinding Misguided “Harm” Definition "ESA protections remain in place while reducing burdens for landowners and communities"

Trump EPA Ends Exorbitant Pay-Outs to Litigious Environmental Nonprofits

Good news! Bravo!

"Since 2013, millions of dollars in attorneys’ fees have been awarded to entities, usually nonprofits, to resolve environmental law litigation against the federal government. New data collected via Freedom of Information Act shows that in the first year of the Trump administration, environmental attorney fee pay outs have seen record lows.

As Open the Books has reported in the past, these fees are often part of “sue-and-settle” schemes where environmental nonprofits friendly to a presidential administration (typically Democratic) will sue the federal government to initiate a back-door rule making process that can exclude Congress and the public. ...

While Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin hasn’t made many public statements about sue-and-settle practices since taking office at the head of the agency, a spokesperson told Open the Books last year:

“Outside activist groups should not dictate EPA’s agenda or federal environmental policy. The Trump Administration is keenly aware of concerns with sue-and-settle practices and commits to not engage in them. The Trump EPA will respect the rule of law and the will of the American people in setting policy based on its statutory mandates and Gold Standard Science, not based on side deals with outside activist groups dead-set on driving up costs to Americans or advancing the interests of our foreign adversaries.”

New data indicates Zeldin has kept his word, as attorney fee payouts in 2025 for litigation under the Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, and Endangered Species Act (three of the most important laws under which most environmental litigation is filed) have been at their lowest level since 2013, when our records begin, at a little more than $510,000. ..."

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Long overdue: EPA at last abandoning the endangerment finding

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.” ..."

Long overdue: EPA at last abandoning the endangerment finding

Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025

Good news insofar as now individual states need to pick up more responsibilities to protect the environment! Devolution of powers and responsibilities?

Is President Trump on his way to become one of the most consequential US Presidents since Ronald Reagan? It appears so!

"... Precise numbers of staffing cuts are hard to pin down, but their historic scale in the first eight months of this administration is unmistakable. Released in May, Zeldin’s budget proposal for the fiscal year starting October 2025 proposed to cut 1,274 full-time-equivalent employee positions from a total of 14,130 in the year ending Sept. 30, 2025 – a 9% drop.

A July 18, 2025, press release from the EPA said the agency had already cut 23% of its personnel, terminating the employment of 3,707 of 16,155 employees. Using employees – the number of people – rather than full-time equivalents makes these numbers difficult to compare directly with EPA’s budget proposals. ..."

Trump administration is on track to cut 1 in 3 EPA staffers by the end of 2025, slashing agency’s ability to keep pollution out of air and water

Like Reagan, Trump is slashing environment regulations, EPA budget and staff. Really!

Good news! For the past 50 years or so environmentalism has become a pseudo religion or fetish! Environmental protection has been well established and practiced for several decades in Western countries.

Thus, less environmental bureaucracy is probably justified!

Plus, I suspect that other agencies and departments of the federal government have taken over some of the environmental tasks of the EPA. Thus, there is a suspicion of duplication of efforts.

"Trump’s EPA budget plan for 2026 includes a draconian 50% cut from the previous year and the lowest budget proposal, when adjusted for inflation, since Reagan. Staff cuts in just the first six months of the second Trump administration put the agency’s total employment at 12,448, down from 16,155 in January. ..."

Like Reagan, Trump is slashing environment regulations, but his strategy may have a far deeper impact

Notice, the 46th President has already cut the EPA budget to the lowest level since President Carter.

CLIMATE CRACKDOWN: Trump EPA axing Obama-era regulations with Laura Ingraham

Bravo EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Trump! This unconstitutional crap should have been rescinded many years ago!

The EPA wants to rescind a landmark scientific finding on greenhouse-gas emissions

Good news! Long overdue that this nonsense is being rescinded! Bravo President Trump!

Since when is a trace gas like life and plant essential atmospheric CO2 an endangerment? What an absurdity!

The Wall Street Journal What's news "The 2009 declaration, known as the endangerment finding, states that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare [???] by raising global temperatures. The EPA said the finding has been used to justify $1 trillion in regulations, though it didn’t provide details. Rescinding it could set off a scramble among companies that have spent billions of dollars to comply with regulations. The EPA’s proposal will have to go through a lengthy comment period, and environmental groups will almost certainly challenge it in court."

End the U. S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Endangerment Finding

Recommendable! CO2 is not a pollutant nor a so called greenhouse gas, but a life essential trace atmospheric trace gas!

End the EPA’s Endangerment Finding - American Thinker

Electric vehicle mandate killed in 'biggest day of deregulation in American history'

Good news! Bravo!

"That's what Environmental Protection Agency head Lee Zeldin said of today's announcement that the onerous fuel efficiency standards opponents have called a de facto electric vehicle mandate will be rescinded.

'The American auto industry has been hamstrung by the crushing regulatory regime of the last administration.'

That includes 31 specific regulatory rollbacks designed to unleash American energy, lower the cost of living, boost the domestic auto industry, and give more power back to the states. ..."

EV mandate killed in 'biggest day of deregulation in American history' | Blaze Media

EPA's endangerment finding of CO2 from 2009 needs to go. Will the Trump EPA finally act?

Probably, one of the craziest findings of the EPA in its history! If there is a definition for insanity, this is one of them.

CO2 is a life essential trace gas!

"Having declared carbon dioxide (CO₂) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) to be harmful pollutants, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) 2009 endangerment finding has been the cornerstone of wrongheaded climate regulation, an impediment to economic growth and destroyer of livelihoods. All the result of rulemaking that puts ideology ahead of science.

Empowered to impose sweeping restrictions on GHG emissions from all manner of human activity, the EPA has been free to impose unreasonable demands on electric generation, transportation, manufacturing and agriculture – just to name more prominent targets. Under the Obama and Biden administrations, with CO2 emissions being the focus, fossil fuels in general and coal in particular were hammered by this regulatory cudgel. ...

President Trump’s EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, was given 30 days to make recommendations regarding the endangerment finding on “the legality and continuing applicability” of the rule, and the clock is ticking. ..."

EPA's endangerment finding needs to go - Clintel "The new EPA head recommends the Whitehouse rewrite the important past conclusion that ‘CO2 endangers the public’. Vijay Jayaray of the CO2 Coalition explains the backgroud of this important ‘endangerment finding’ of 2009."

Calculating the “Social Cost of Carbon” with the GIVE Model: An EPA junk Model in support of junk science and climate change religion

Social cost itself is already a nebulous term used for ideological purposes!

Generally speaking, most climate models are junk! E.g. we still know very little about the very complex phenomenon climate.

"Over the past four years, the [46th President's] Administration relied extensively on integrated assessment models (IAMs) to quantify the economic effects of carbon-dioxide emissions via a construct known as the social cost of carbon (SCC). This Special Report examines one such model, the Greenhouse Gas Impact Value Estimator (GIVE). The authors closely examine the GIVE model and test its robustness under a variety of important assumptions, including specifications for discounting, time horizons, and climate sensitivity. They find the model’s estimates to be highly sensitive to these assumptions, thus making them highly susceptible to user manipulation. Consequently, lawmakers can—as the [46th President's] Administration did—manipulate the SCC by specifying assumptions that align with desired outcomes, thereby engaging in circular logic to produce and justify predetermined regulatory policies. As a result, the authors strongly advise lawmakers against using these models in regulatory policy."

Calculating the “Social Cost of Carbon” with the GIVE Model: An EPA Model Not Ready for Prime Time | The Heritage Foundation

Risk Management and 6 months to 8 year phase out for Perchloroethylene (PCE) | US EPA

Is this not another Big Government overreach? 

How dangerous is this substance really that has been in use for such a long time (first synthesized in 1839)?

Do we currently have any better and cheap alternatives?

The EPA calls prohibition a form of risk management! Nice euphemism!

"... EPA has set a 10-year phaseout for the use of PCE in dry cleaning to eliminate the risk to people who work or spend considerable time at dry cleaning facilities. Use of PCE in newly acquired dry-cleaning machines is prohibited after 6 months. Compliance dates for machines that are already owned vary depending on the type of the dry-cleaning machine used, with older types of machines being phased out sooner than newer ones. ..."

Risk Management for Perchloroethylene (PCE) | US EPA

U.S. EPA Unveils Carbon Dioxide Regulations That Could End Coal and Natural Gas Power Generation

Even if the U.S. and other Western countries would shut down all their coal and natural gas power generators, other countries would build and run them! As such it is Western idiocy! And let's not forget Global Warming is a hoax and Climate Change is a religion!

To target coal power generation like this makes little sense! Just a reminder: "On average, a person exhales about 2.3 pounds of carbon dioxide (CO2) per day, or 0.66 kilograms." What should we do about that according to these ideologues and morons!

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced new regulations on April 25 that would force coal-fired power plants to reduce or capture 90 percent of their carbon dioxide emissions by 2039, one year earlier than in the rule originally proposed in May 2023. ..."

"... will significantly reduce climate ... pollution [???] from the power sector ..."

U.S. EPA Unveils Carbon Dioxide Regulations That Could End Coal and Natural Gas Power Generation

Biden-Harris Administration Finalizes Suite of Standards to Reduce Pollution from Fossil Fuel-Fired Power Plants Four final rules deliver on the Biden-Harris Administration’s day-one commitment to lead on climate action and to protect all communities from pollution

The EPA Is preparing the bloodbath for the U.S. automobile industry for no good reason!

There can never be enough sacrifices for the Global Warming hoax and Climate Change religion!

This is pure and horrible socialist central planning by the federal government!

"... Expected as soon as Wednesday, the Biden EPA "is poised to finalize emissions rules that will effectively require a certain percentage — as much as two-thirds by 2032 — of new cars to be all-electric," according to Inside EVs. ...

The rule would require carmakers to cut their average emissions of carbon dioxide by 52% between 2027 and 2032. EPA projects that the standard would push the car industry to ensure that electric cars and light trucks make up about 67% of new vehicles by model year 2032. ..."

The EPA Is About to Outlaw Your Car – PJ Media

Credits: Texas Public Policy Foundation Cannon

The EPA has finalized a new air pollution standard that could be the most expensive environmental regulation in U.S. history

A case of insanity! When environmentalism becomes an obsession! How much will this cost?

"The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) took one of its most dramatic steps to date in its assault on American industry and on affordable, reliable energy by lowering the national standard for fine particulate matter, already among the strictest standards in the world, from 12 μg/m3 to 9 μg/m3. ...
Particulate levels in the U.S. are already among the lowest in the world, and 60% of the particulates in the U.S. are from natural sources, with only 20% coming from energy consumption and industrial activity. ..."

TPPF Opposes EPA’s Burdensome Air Quality Standards

Chart of the day no. 2

Secretive “Sue And Settle” Back In Play At Biden’s EPA "... "Sue and settle” describes cases wherein a party (often an environmental nonprofit or other advocacy group) sues a federal agency, and instead of litigating the lawsuit in court, both parties come to terms via negotiation. Such settlements—or “consent decrees”—may include issuing or determining aspects of a rule or meeting a specific deadline. ..."

Your tax dollar at work for dubious purposes!

EPA Is Ignoring the Glaring Problem with very Dirty Electric Vehicles

Western government efforts to ban fossil fuel powered vehicles and force electric vehicles are the worst kind of socialist central planning! The Soviet Union died, but the socialist Western countries live on! There is no justification for this massive government intervention!

The Global Warming hoax and the Climate Change religion is the greatest scam/scandal perpetrated in our lifetime!

"... The EPA justifies its proposed rule on the grounds of what it refers to as a climate change “threat.” Under the explicit assumptions and estimated effects asserted by the EPA in the proposed rule, the temperature effect of the rule in 2100 would be about 0.023°C. This is calculated applying the EPA’s own climate model under assumptions that exaggerate the future effects of reduced emissions of greenhouse gases. ...

As a crude generalization, EV batteries weigh a half ton or more. Each contains roughly 30 pounds of lithium, 60 pounds of cobalt, 130 pounds of nickel, 190 pounds of graphite, 90 pounds of copper and about 400 pounds of steel, aluminum and plastics. ...
the amount of mining needed to produce these quantities for a single EV battery. By ... estimate, each battery requires the extraction of 20,000 pounds of lithium brines, 60,000 pounds of cobalt ore, 10,000 pounds of nickel ore, 2,000 pounds of graphite ore and 12,000 pounds of copper ore. ...
“The variables and uncertainties in emissions from energy-intensive mining and processing of minerals used to make EV batteries are a big wild card in the emissions calculus,” ..."

EPA Is Ignoring the Glaring Problem with Dirty Electric Vehicles | American Enterprise Institute - AEI The Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) has launched a new regulatory effort to force a massive transportation shift to electric vehicles (EVs) with its proposed “multi-pollutant emissions standards” for light- and medium-duty vehicles beginning with model year 2027.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency quietly quadruples regulatory cost of carbon emissions in new war on fossil fuels

This sounds quite serious, but I am not sure what exactly the implications are! But, you can be sure it will raise the cost of living for no good reason! And what is next?

The demented and senile 46th President does not know what he is doing! E.g. he prohibited domestic fossil fuel production and imports from Canada, but buys oil from Venezuela! He also has been massively draining the Strategic Oil Reserve (by about 1/3 by now).

Global Warming is a hoax and Climate Change is a religion!

"... The so-called Social Cost of Carbon was first set in 2009 under then-President Barack Obama. Under Democrats it has been set for most of the last decade at $51 per metric ton. But in a rulemaking notice in mid-November [2022], EPA said it had devised a new calculation that raises that damage estimate to $190 per metric ton by 2022 standards and as much as $410 by the year 2080. ...
Republican attorneys general in states like Louisiana that are challenging the Biden administration Social Cost of Carbon rulemaking as unconstitutional. ...
The Trump administration reduced that estimate to $1 to $7 per metric ton, and then Biden's team returned to the $51 figure in 2021. ...
The EPA is the first agency to publicly propose a massive adjustment upwards. It buried the new figure in a 137-page draft supplemental report that was attached this month to new methane emissions rules for the natural gas industry, catching many by surprise."

Cha-ching! EPA quietly quadruples regulatory cost of carbon emissions in new war on fossil fuels | Just The News Social Cost of Carbon estimate jumps from $51 to $190 per metric ton, creating future impact for Americans' wallets and a new headache for the oil and gas industries.