Climate Realists on Offense, Radical Critics in Retreat
Jun 10, 2026
Kevin Mooney
Energy & Environment | America First
UN jettisons worst case climate predictions as Team Trump pushes American power.
Vindication. That's what climate realists within the scientific community have found. Honest scientists have explored the natural influences driving recent warming trends, while highlighting the benefits of carbon dioxide, and exposing the faulty assumptions behind modeling exercises. Now, after years of spurious attacks, their work has paid off.
How vindicated? The sitting head of the EPA told a ballroom filled with these concerned scientists and activists their work led to the biggest deregulation effort in American history—while the progressive left lost its mind.
Realistic Climate Expectations Take the Stage
Media reaction to the Heartland Institute's 16th annual International Conference on Climate Change in Washington D.C. demonstrates the level of vindication for climate realists. So does a bombshell revelation from the United Nations. The scientists and energy policy analysts from across the country and around the globe who took part in the gathering discussed their latest research into climate trends. They also commented on a wide range of economic and regulatory topics.
EPA Chief Lee Zeldin's opening keynote address to the conference precipitated a media meltdown that has continued over the past few weeks. In his remarks, Zeldin placed a strong emphasis on the Trump administration's efforts to repeal the Obama-era endangerment finding that declared CO2 a pollutant under the Clean Air Act. As Zeldin explained, the endangerment finding has been used to justify expensive and burdensome climate regulations since it was enacted in 2009.
If the administration is successful in its effort to repeal the finding, it will result in the largest deregulatory action in U.S. history, according to an EPA press release. The agency estimates the repeal would save U.S. taxpayers more than $1.3 trillion. Legal challenges in support and opposed to the repeal are already working their way through the court system.
The CO2 Coalition, a nonprofit group that co-sponsored the Heartland conference, has intervened on behalf of the administration's deregulatory initiative. In its filing, the coalition challenges the scientific underpinnings of the endangerment finding and makes the case that empirical data along with peer-reviewed studies and research contradict the finding.
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