Repealing the Endangerment Finding: a Triumph for Science, Jobs, Families

Article author: 
Frank Lasee
Article publisher: 
Townhall
Article date: 
19 February 2026
Article category: 
National News
Medium
Article Body: 

... The Environmental Protection Agency, under Administrator Lee Zeldin and with the full support of President Donald Trump, has formally rescinded Obama’s 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding. Obama told us that our electricity rates would skyrocket under his plan. He was right about that. 

 White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt rightly called it “the largest deregulatory action in American history,” one that will spare the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations. This is not mere politics; it is an overdue correction of a regulatory travesty built on climate ideology, politics, and graft, not science...

Internal EPA emails, now spotlighted by the Government Accountability & Oversight investigation, reveal that Obama administration political appointees labeled endangerment a “decision ready to go,” a “basic fact,” and “nothing more than science and common sense” within weeks of the inauguration—before any meaningful scientific review...

As Matthew Wielicki, author of the Irrational Fear, documented. It was engineered for a foregone conclusion, not to test whether CO₂ actually endangers public health or welfare...

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