EPA Chief Lee Zeldin to Rescind ‘Holy Grail of the Climate Change Religion’ That Led to $1 Trillion in Regulations
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Lee Zeldin, administrator of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), following a sigStefani
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin on Tuesday released the agency’s proposal to rescind what he has described as the “holy grail of the climate change religion,” which has led to over a trillion dollars in regulatory impact.

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Zeldin made the announcement to repeal the Obama-era Endangerment Finding at an auto dealer in Indiana alongside U.S. Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, Gov. Mike Braun (R-IN), Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita, and American Trucking Association President and CEO Chris Spear.

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The EPA has said the Endangerment Finding has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris administration’s electric vehicle mandate. Scrapping the so-called Endangerment Finding would repeal all of the greenhouse emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines and give Americans consumer choice.

The Endangerment Finding created the legal basis for the agency to regulate greenhouse gas emissions, believing that the emissions serve as an alleged threat to public health and welfare.

Zeldin explained in a Breitbart Fight Club Roundtable that the Endangerment Finding never made a “straight-line conclusion” that carbon dioxide from motor vehicle engines caused “endangerment.” He described this finding as the “holy grail of the climate change religion.”

He said in a written statement on Tuesday:

With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers. In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year. We heard loud and clear the concern that EPA’s GHG emissions standards themselves, not carbon dioxide which the Finding never assessed independently, was the real threat to Americans’ livelihoods. If finalized, rescinding the Endangerment Finding and resulting regulations would end $1 trillion or more in hidden taxes on American businesses and families. [Emphasis added]

An EPA press release stated that this proposal would eliminate onerous regulations that harm American businesses as well as “much hated” automobile features such as “start-stop” on most new cars.

I bet NY state is kicking themselves for missing out on Zeldin. Their loss is our gain. He's been doing great!

I understand that the President wants to stop further construction of wind turbines in the United States too. I would certainly sing the Hallelujah Chorus if that happens.

More winning! I never get tired of saying or hearing that phrase!

To add...

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EPA Moves to Revoke Finding That Allows Climate Regulation

According to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, repealing these findings would be ’the largest deregulatory action in the history of America.’

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on July 29 proposed a repeal of its long-standing “endangerment findings” of a connection between individual motor vehicle emissions and changes in the climate, according to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin.

It would repeal $1 trillion in regulations, saving $54 billion per year, according to the EPA.

The repeal would “end 16 years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” Zeldin said at an auto dealership in Indiana.

“In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year,” he said.

“We heard loud and clear the concern that EPA’s GHG emissions standards themselves, not carbon dioxide, which the finding never assessed independently, were the real threat to Americans’ livelihoods.”

Zeldin in March had called for a rewrite of the endangerment findings, announcing that 31 environmental rules would be rolled back or repealed in what he called “the greatest day of deregulation in American history.”

According to the EPA’s website, two findings were signed in December 2009 under a section of the Clean Air Act that have underpinned environmental regulations on the transportation industry ever since, from tailpipe emissions to electric vehicle mandates.
The first finding said “current and projected concentrations” of six well-mixed greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide, in the atmosphere threatened public health and welfare. The second found that the combined emissions from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines contributed to greenhouse gas pollution.

“These findings do not themselves impose any requirements on industry or other entities,” the EPA stated. “However, this action was a prerequisite for implementing greenhouse gas emissions standards for vehicles and other sectors.”
Zeldin told Newsmax on July 23 that his office had taken unofficial steps to progress the proposed repeal of the findings and that there had been “trillions” of dollars’ worth of regulations built off of the findings in the past 16 years.

“There are people who, in the name of climate change, are willing to bankrupt the country,” Zeldin said. “They created this endangerment finding and then they are able to put all these regulations on vehicles, on airplanes, on stationary sources, to basically regulate out of existence, in many cases, a lot of segments of our economy.”

Environmental activists, meanwhile, see the findings as essential for ensuring necessary environmental protections.

“The Endangerment Finding is the legal foundation that underpins vital protections for millions of people from the severe threats of climate change, and the Clean Car and Truck Standards are among the most important and effective protections to address the largest U.S. source of climate-causing pollution,” said Peter Zalzal, associate vice president of the Environmental Defense Fund.

The EPA’s proposal will be put on the federal register, where it will undergo a long review process before being finalized as a rule, which includes space for public comment.

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Originally posted by Vgex:
I bet NY state is kicking themselves for missing out on Zeldin. Their loss is our gain. He's been doing great!

If we had honest elections, who's to say.

Great news.

About time.

MAKE DIESELS GREAT AGAIN!

The fast tracking of permits from years down to less than 1 month is the win. Companies need to plan and have certainty. Can you imagine being 2-3 years into a project and then have the .gov tell you no ?

I'm about 24 - 30 months out from buying a medium duty diesel truck...26,000 GVW. My current plan was to buy a low mileage pre-2010...pre-DEF & DPF. I sure hope they relax the diesel emissions standards so I can get something newer.

It would be nice if Congress could pass legislation making this more permanent.

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Originally posted by smlsig:
MAKE DIESELS GREAT AGAIN!

Yesterday, I had to go through the first regen process on my Kubota MX5400. It took around 15 minutes to complete. This whole DEF/DPF thing is a total waste of time and money.

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Originally posted by 1967Goat:
I'm about 24 - 30 months out from buying a medium duty diesel truck...26,000 GVW. My current plan was to buy a low mileage pre-2010...pre-DEF & DPF. I sure hope they relax the diesel emissions standards so I can get something newer.

The new diesels are plagued with problems, the injectors cannot handle the particulates in diesel fuel (the old injectors could), the Cp3 pumps go bad resulting in the entire fuel system getting contaminated with metal, body has to be lifted to work on them and then the DEF requirement. I do not see how a new diesel truck is worth the money, if you watch the mechanic channels on YouTube, some new trucks have engines go bad at 80-90 k miles.

For any of you familiar at all with the EPA and boats… the demands they made on the boating, industry and computerization. That is a constant pain in the ass as a whole different subject, but similar to the EPA and automobiles.

Dont' forget the crazy "Waters of the United States" rules under Obama. You got a winter-time puddle in your back yard? EPA's gonna regulate what you do with the land. Exaggerating a bit, but it was outrageous.

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Dont' forget the crazy "Waters of the United States" rules under Obama. You got a winter-time puddle in your back yard? EPA's gonna regulate what you do with the land. Exaggerating a bit, but it was outrageous.

Pepperidge Farm remembers.

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I wish you were exagerating, but you are not.

Conservation commissions and the EPA regulate wetlands and vernal pools that appear in one season and then disappear for the rest of the year.

If you have either wetland vegetation or a vernal pool you land can become unbuildable, if they find out about either.

You can and most likely will be denied a building permit.

I’m not a big fan of the ‘auto-off, auto-start’ feature with vehicles. I’ve seen them in action, not owned one.

I’ll manually turn off if sitting over a minute, just don’t want the short duration off then on.

Hey Greta, "How dare we?" Just like this!

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Originally posted by sig2392:
I wish you were exagerating, but you are not.

Conservation commissions and the EPA regulate wetlands and vernal pools that appear in one season and then disappear for the rest of the year.

If you have either wetland vegetation or a vernal pool you land can become unbuildable, if they find out about either.

You can and most likely will be denied a building permit.

First hand experience with that. We built a small strip center on what had, over the years, been farmland, abandoned, farm land again, abandoned again etc. Kids rode 4-wheelers on it leaving tire tracks. The tire tracks in just three spots (strange?) filled with rain and stuff grew in them. Voila - wetlands. I have no idea how the EPA/COE found it, but they did. Two years and thousands in delays later, EPA says give us $20,000 for mitigation and you can proceed. I told him I would have given the $50,000 two years ago if they had left me the hell alone. He just gave me the stink eye.

Zeldin makes me happy