Trump to repeal scientific finding that allows government to fight climate change

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-rescind.html

https://archive.ph/lNOMu

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change
According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.
By Lisa Friedman
July 22, 2025, 10:56 p.m. ET

The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan.

The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration known as the “endangerment finding,” which scientifically established that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane endanger human lives.

That finding is the foundation of the federal government’s only tool to limit the climate pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industries that is dangerously heating the planet.

The E.P.A. proposal, which is expected to be made public within days, also calls for rescinding limits on tailpipe emissions that were designed to encourage automakers to build and sell more electric vehicles. Those regulations, which were based on the endangerment finding, were a fundamental part of the Biden administration’s efforts to move the country away from gasoline-powered vehicles. The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

The E.P.A. intends to argue that imposing climate regulations on automakers poses the real harm to human health because it would lead to higher prices and reduced consumer choice, according to the two people familiar with the administration’s plan. They asked to remain anonymous because they weren’t authorized to discuss the draft proposal.

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[obamanut2012]

1. Wtaf

[sakabatou]

2. "Let the world become a hellhole." -Orange Shitler

[sinkingfeeling]

3. "Repeal a fundamental scientific finding". Now that is the definition of insanity.

[Solly Mack]

4. Damn

[Ocelot II]

5. Repeal a scientific finding? How can the government repeal a scientific finding?

It's like what happened to Galileo - he figured out that the earth revolved around the sun, but the Church decided that this scientific finding was contrary to its established dogma, so the Inquisition found him guilty of heresy; he was placed under house arrest for the rest of his life, forced to recant, and his publication was banned. E pur si muove.

Trump has created a new Inquisition to suppress science that conflicts with whatever unscientific bullshit works for the benefit of the oligarchs. "Our chief weapon is surprise... surprise and fear... fear and surprise... Our two weapons are fear and surprise... and ruthless efficiency.... Our three weapons are fear, and surprise, and ruthless efficiency... and an almost fanatical devotion to Trump...” We'd better keep expecting this Inquisition.

[tanyev]

6. Oh, Donny's got a system for changing science he doesn't like.

[Kaleva]

7. "It's too late': David Suzuki says the fight against climate change is lost"

“David Suzuki, noted environmentalist and longtime host of ‘The Nature of Things’ on CBC. At 89-years-old, Suzuki remains a fierce advocate for global climate action, but he spoke about recently coming to the conclusion that humanity has lost the fight against climate change,“

https://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=20463673

[orangecrush]

8. Swine

[JMCKUSICK]

9. You just can't make this shit up

[onethatcares]

10. Ahh, what does it matter

as long as some greedy mofo gets more money.......

[hatrack]

11. Fine. Let's burn it all down. We can all die, and the bunker billionaries will die slightly later.

"Leadership", American-style.