by Thomas Catenacci
Washington Free Beacon
Regulations targeting gas cars, coal power plants, and oil rigs hang in the balance
The Trump EPA will unveil a landmark proposal to rescind the Obama-era legal basis that allows the federal government to regulate gas-powered vehicle emissions and enforce a de facto electric vehicle mandate.
The proposal would formally remove the agency’s determination issued by the Obama administration in 2009 that greenhouse gas emissions, including carbon dioxide and methane, endanger public health and must be regulated. The Biden EPA used that determination, known as the endangerment finding, to force automakers to sell more electric vehicles.
The endangerment finding has also undergirded a variety of other environmental regulations targeting both the transportation and power sectors.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin announced the proposal during an interview with the Ruthless podcast on Tuesday morning. “This will basically drive a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,” he said, adding that the 2009 finding enabled the federal government to regulate segments of the U.S. economy “out of existence.”…
“If they get rid of the endangerment finding, then the rationale for all federal action on climate kind of goes away,” added Steve Milloy, a senior legal fellow at the Energy & Environment Legal Institute.
