Trump’s EPA to scrap regulating CO2 as a pollutant – ‘Sweeping attack on federal climate regulation

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Bloomberg News: Trump’s EPA to scrap regulating CO2 as a pollutant – ‘Sweeping attack on federal climate regulations’ – Morano: ‘This is the holy grail of the climate agenda’

“This is the holy grail of the climate agenda,” said Marc Morano, who runs the climate-skeptic website ClimateDepot.com. “If you want to permanently cripple the United States climate agenda you have to go at the heart of it. This is the heart of it: the endangerment finding.”
By Marc Morano
February 26, 2025
 

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-02-26/trump-s-epa-plots-single-strike-against-us-climate-change-rules?sref=Vi7wu7Hv
Trump’s EPA Plots Single Strike Against US Climate Change Rules


By Ari Natter and Jennifer A. Dlouhy
President Donald Trump’s top environmental regulator is recommending the US government scrap its formal conclusion that greenhouse gases endanger the public, a move that would sweep away the legal foundation for regulations limiting planet-warming pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil wells.

(Bloomberg) — President Donald Trump’s top environmental regulator is recommending the US government scrap its formal conclusion that greenhouse gases endanger the public, a move that would sweep away the legal foundation for regulations limiting planet-warming pollution from power plants, automobiles and oil wells.
In private recommendations to Trump, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has urged a rewrite of the so-called endangerment finding, setting the stage for a potentially sweeping attack on federal climate regulations. The recommendations were described by people familiar with the matter who asked not to be identified because the assessment isn’t public.

The president has frequently criticized what he calls the “green new scam,” referring to government policies fighting climate change and promoting emission-free energy. Trump hasn’t formally endorsed the plan outlined by Zeldin, and it’s unclear if he will embrace it. But if he does, the effort would dovetail with priorities such as building more power plants and abolishing incentives for electric vehicle sales. And it would be consistent with recent Trump administration moves to retreat from work on climate change, including preventing a US official from attending a scientific meeting on the issue in China.

https://www.climatedepot.com/2025/02/26/bloomberg-news-trumps-epa-to-scrap-regulating-co2-as-a-pollutant-sweeping-attack-on-federal-climate-regulations-morano-this-is-the-holy-grail-of-the-climate-agenda/

[rustynail]

Roberts court ruled CO2 is a deadly pollutant.  Massachusetts v. EPA...

[IsailedawayfromFR]

Roberts court ruled CO2 is a deadly pollutant.  Massachusetts v. EPA...

even Roberts dissented from that outcome.

When it comes up again, it will be reversed with a more conservative court

[rustynail]

even Roberts dissented from that outcome.

When it comes up again, it will be reversed with a more conservative court

Sure hope so.

[Fishrrman]

This is the most important move that Mr. Trump could make at the EPA.

Time for him to go before the nation and the world and declare that not only is CO2 NOT "a pollutant", but rather that it's an essential component of all life on earth.

And... that attempts to "regulate" it in the United States are OVER.

But he should go further.
He should declare that the now decades-long putsch by the left entitled "global warming" and now "climate change" has been nothing more than a scientific hoax -- indeed, the greatest hoax and falsehood ever foisted upon humanity.

And that -- at least here in the United States -- we were done with such nonsense.

[Bigun]

This is the most important move that Mr. Trump could make at the EPA.

Time for him to go before the nation and the world and declare that not only is CO2 NOT "a pollutant", but rather that it's an essential component of all life on earth.

And... that attempts to "regulate" it in the United States are OVER.

But he should go further.
He should declare that the now decades-long putsch by the left entitled "global warming" and now "climate change" has been nothing more than a scientific hoax -- indeed, the greatest hoax and falsehood ever foisted upon humanity.

And that -- at least here in the United States -- we were done with such nonsense.

 

[DefiantMassRINO]

Plants can breath easy again.

[the OlLine Rebel]

This is the most important move that Mr. Trump could make at the EPA.

Time for him to go before the nation and the world and declare that not only is CO2 NOT "a pollutant", but rather that it's an essential component of all life on earth.

And... that attempts to "regulate" it in the United States are OVER.

But he should go further.
He should declare that the now decades-long putsch by the left entitled "global warming" and now "climate change" has been nothing more than a scientific hoax -- indeed, the greatest hoax and falsehood ever foisted upon humanity.

And that -- at least here in the United States -- we were done with such nonsense.

Can’t say I disagree with that.

I cannot believe that CO2 is treated as a pollutant….don’t these idiots know that plants breathe it?

It’s symbiotic…we animals need O2, we exhale CO2, plants need that and exude O2.

[Smokin Joe]

Plants can breath easy again.

 

[Smokin Joe]

Can’t say I disagree with that.

I cannot believe that CO2 is treated as a pollutant….don’t these idiots know that plants breathe it?

It’s symbiotic…we animals need O2, we exhale CO2, plants need that and exude O2.

C'mon, m'am!

No greater excuse has ever been raised for diverting enormous amounts of money (even money we don't have) from the public coffers and rerouting it through NGOs to its final destinations. Even USAID has used the environmental excuse to steal money..
Plus, it has the added 'benefit' of crippling industry, a reason the KGB provided seed money to environmental organizations back in the '70s (some of the most effective money they ever spent.)

I'm all for clean air and water, but the days of rivers catching on fire, brown domes over urban centers, SMOG, acid rain, and gray snow are over. These people just kept looking for something else to regulate to justify their jobs.

[Kamaji]

Two forecasts: they won’t follow the APA but will just make it up by executive order, and it’ll get undone in the courts in two years time.