by Steve Milloy, E&E Legal Senior Policy Fellow and Junkscience.com Founder
As appearing in the Daily Caller
This column has been cheering the Trump Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) decision to rescind the Obama EPA’s 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions. If successful, it would end what President Trump calls the climate “hoax.”
But I differ with the Trump EPA over the process for doing so. Now, two new developments threaten to delay or even derail the Trump EPA.
The Trump EPA formally proposed to rescind the endangerment finding on Aug. 1. The proposal seeks public comments (due Sept. 15) on these two alternative rationales for rescinding the endangerment finding: (1) that the endangerment finding is illegal under recent Supreme Court decisions; and/or (2) that the Obama EPA improperly issued the endangerment finding by failing to follow proper rulemaking procedures, including failure to properly consider the relevant science.
In response, two radical greens groups filed a lawsuit on Aug. 12 to stop the rulemaking in the Democrat-friendly federal district court of Massachusetts. Greens somehow also convinced the taxpayer-funded National Academy of Sciences to do a surprise and rush review of the EPA’s proposal.
