Since taking office in January, President Trump has worked hard to restore sanity in America. While the wins have been stacking up in many areas, perhaps his administration’s most notable efforts have been in its pushback against the junk science driving the climate agenda.
Along with executive orders in January and April to unleash American energy, Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that it would be reversing a Biden administration regulation that held Arizona accountable for the eighty percent of emissions in the Maricopa County nonattainment area that emanated from outside of the state—primarily from China and Mexico.
While all that is good news, the Trump administration delivered quite possibly the best news yet for American energy last month when the EPA released its plan on rescinding the Endangerment Finding. And it has the climate cult drowning in their tears.
What is the Endangerment Finding?
Back in 2009, the Obama administration declared carbon dioxide (CO2) as a pollutant that threatens public health and welfare under the Clean Air Act. Of course, this ignored the fact that CO2 is one of the most important ingredients for building and sustaining life on Earth. But the Obama administration was never known for exercising commonsense, so it gave birth to this controversial policy by relying on cherry-picked scientific data to justify a vast expansion of regulatory power at the EPA.
Since its inception, the Endangerment Finding has been used as the basis for many of the green scam regulations impacting Arizona’s economy. During both the Obama administration and the Biden administration, the EPA passed new regulations on vehicles, factories, power plants, and other mobile sources all based on the alleged dangers of CO2. These mandates have cost the U.S. economy over a trillion dollars, and here in Arizona, they have been responsible for higher energy prices and higher utility bills.
But if the climate cult gets its way, it wouldn’t stop there.
They want the Endangerment Finding to be left in place to continue their overreach and inevitably force us into banning gas-powered cars, gas stoves, and going Net Zero with our energy grid (all efforts we saw under President Biden). Thankfully, the Trump administration is working to roll back this illegal and unscientific regulatory overreach of the Clean Air Act.
One of the Largest Regulatory Rollbacks in U.S. History
The Trump administration’s announcement of its newly proposed rule to repeal the 2009 Endangerment Finding isn’t just some small step. If it comes to fruition, the elimination of the Endangerment Finding would be one of the largest regulatory rollbacks in the history of our nation. And we’re not just talking about cost.
Think about it.
The very idea of challenging the political consensus surrounding climate change and its endless regulations, subsidies, and mandates that benefit the green energy industrial complex was considered unfathomable just last year. Right here in Arizona, the Maricopa Association of Governments (MAG) was even prepared to bow down to the climate cult and sacrifice your freedoms to bring Maricopa County into compliance with ozone standards that were impossible to achieve.
But now, President Trump has shattered that political consensus, exposing how vacuous, absurd, and even dangerous the green scam has been to America.
The Next Step
Repealing the Endangerment Finding is a necessary step to restore energy independence, protect ratepayers, and stop the unelected bureaucrats at the EPA from hijacking our economy in the name of climate alarmism. And this effort needs your voice.
The proposed recission of the Endangerment Finding is now open to public comment, and there is no doubt that the Green-New-Deal Left will try to flood the EPA with statements opposing its repeal. The Trump administration needs your support, and that’s why it’s critical that everyone who wants to see an end to the climate cult regulatory labyrinth submit a comment before the deadline on September 15th.
Arizona has been experiencing the negative impacts of the Endangerment Finding and other climate cult policies for over a decade. We’ve seen skyrocketing utility bills and threats to grid reliability. Now, it’s time to raise our voices and put an end to this regulatory abuse and overreach once and for all.
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