Legal Insurrection by Leslie Eastman 2/11/2026
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will “formalize the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding” at a White House ceremony.In 2007, the Supreme Court’s climate change ruling, Massachusetts v. Environmental Protection Agency, permitted the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate carbon dioxide under the Clean Air Act Amendments of 1992.
Following the Court’s directive and after extensive manipulation of the scientific process and the spread of disinformation by the mainstream media, Obama’s EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson issued the “Endangerment Finding” in 2009.
The agency decided that six key greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide, methane, and others) endanger both public health and welfare, laying the groundwork for hyper-regulation that restricted both prosperity and personal liberty. Subsequent rules promulgated by the EPA allowed the agency to essentially wage a “War on Fossil Fuels,” a “War on Appliances,” and a “War on Meat.” Biden’s ludicrous “Inflation Reduction Act” further fueled this inanity by codifying the “Green New Deal.”
Back in July, I noted that the EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin had planned to rescind these rules. The EPA will officially revoke the rules this week.
“On Thursday, President Trump will be joined by Administrator Lee Zeldin to formalize the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment finding,” White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday, referring to the EPA’s leader. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations.”
…The revocation of the endangerment finding will represent the Trump administration’s biggest broadside yet against efforts to combat climate change and would be a boon for the fossil fuel industry that has fought against climate regulations for years. The endangerment finding determined that greenhouse gases pose a risk to public health and welfare, giving EPA the authority to regulate them.
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