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The Endangerment Finding Puts Us In Danger

August 1, 2025

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Common Sense

EPA regulations endangered prosperity, growth

The issue: Kudos to President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for finally moving to scrap the 2009 “Endangerment Finding” — the legal pretext for a decade and a half of economically disastrous climate mandates. This is clearly a win for common sense energy policy.

Background: The EPA was created in 1970 to fight toxic air pollutants. But in 2009, Obama-era bureaucrats reclassified CO₂ — a natural, non-toxic gas — as a “public health threat,” not for its toxicity, but for its link to global warming.

That ruling became the legal backbone for sweeping climate regulations never approved by Congress. Since then, climate alarmists have pushed costly mandates onto everyone — from students to CEOs — while silencing dissent and inflating doomsday scenarios.

This green madness is a major reason why Western Europe has seen next to zero economic growth over the last two decades.

The latest: After long teasing the repeal, Zeldin made the “largest deregulatory action in the history of America” official Tuesday, calling it “a huge win for energy sanity.”

It takes the shackles off the energy industry and allows domestic manufacturing and production to boom.

In parallel with this regulatory shift, the Department of Energy released a groundbreaking climate report, noting:

  • The significant economic benefits of increased CO₂, directly enhancing plant growth and agricultural productivity.
  • Clear evidence debunking exaggerated claims about economic harm from CO₂ emissions.

Zeldin’s repeal marks the biggest deregulatory action in U.S. history. It unchains American energy, ends bureaucratic overreach, and restores agency accountability.

“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. … If finalized, rescinding the Endangerment Finding and resulting regulations would end $1 trillion or more in hidden taxes on American businesses and families,” he said in a statement.

Why it matters: The DOE’s latest climate report also helps shift the narrative, highlighting CO₂’s benefits to agriculture and debunking economic scare tactics.

Consider some of the cost of climate alarmism:

  • U.S. consumer electricity prices up 40% since 2010, affecting all Americans.
  • Over the last 15 years roughly 300 coal plants shut down, meaning 40% of coal capacity is gone and thousands of jobs lost.
  • New car prices are up about 40% as manufacturers pass on the additional cost to consumers.

The result is household budgets squeezed and economic growth stalled. These aren’t environmental victories.

They’re policy failures rooted in the Endangerment Finding. What’s truly endangered is American freedom and prosperity, which TEA has advocated through its declaration of ARC Energy Security.

Critics say repealing this ruling would gut climate rules. That’s precisely the point: Reduce federal bureaucracy and unleash American energy.

What’s next: The EPA can repeal the Finding without Congress, under the Clean Air Act. Expect legal challenges and media hysteria. Recall that Democrats slipped “greenhouse gases are pollutants” into the ill-named Inflation Reduction Act in 2022.
The green elite continue to worship the sun and wind, no matter the economic or environmental cost. It’s finally time to put energy realism first.

Americans are tired of big government red tape and one-size-fits-all regulations that crush innovation, entrepreneurship and choice. They made that clear last November.

Bottom line: Scrapping the Endangerment Finding restores regulatory sanity, revives energy freedom and ends a costly chapter of climate extremism. Long overdue.

 

Nonsense

THE REAL CAUSE OF SOARING ELECTRICITY PRICES: The AI explosion means many Americans are paying more for electricity.

Why it matters: If ARC Energy Security, as we envision it, were already in place as the law of the land, our country would not be in this predicament of being overly reliant on unreliable renewable energy. Energy Security is fundamental to our freedom and prosperity. It ensures a bright future for all Americans in the pursuit of life, liberty, and happiness.

Electricity markets are complex, and price hikes often have many causes. But this summer, data centers are a clear driver behind rising home energy bills in several regions, with some residential consumers seeing their bills nearly double.

However, there are some fundamental reasons behind it, as Steve Milloy, editor of the JunkScience.com blog, points out.

Consider:

  • AI is increasing electricity demand. That is leading to higher electricity prices because electric utilities have been caught flat-footed.

  • Over the past 15 years, climate profiteering utilities have irresponsibly loaded the grid with unreliable wind and solar, which obviously cannot meet increased demand.

  • Until more fossil fuel and nuclear power plants are built, residential and business customers will be subject to increased blackouts, brownouts, and rationing.
  • And expect higher prices.

The solution is simple: To power AI and re-industrialization, we need more natural gas and nuclear plants built — and fast.

Don’t misunderstand. Data centers and AI are welcome in America, for the jobs they bring and to keep us competitive with China and others.

But as data centers pop up across the US, energy experts fear their growing needs for power will outstrip supply, and the prices will spike for everyone. Most people oppose the Little Guy subsidizing billion-dollar companies like Google or Amazon.

Bottom line: Expanding natural gas and nuclear power will help meet growing AI demand and ease the price crunch by providing Affordable, Reliable, and Clean energy.

 

A look ahead

Nothing on the calendar for next week as Congress in recess until the end of August!

 

Quote of the week

“The Trump EPA’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Obama EPA Endangerment Finding heeds the emphatic demands of the American public to follow the law, unshackle our economy, reign in bureaucratic overreach, lower costs, recognize just how much American innovation has sharply risen, and defend consumer freedom.”

 — EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, on X.