The Environmental Protection Agency determined in 2009 that greenhouse gases were endangering life on our planet. The agency put forth a study to promote the passing of the Clean Air Act, enabling the government to regulate energy. The EPA under Trump is now seeking to overturn this study as scientists now believe that greenhouse gases are not harmful to humans.
The Supreme Court ruled in Massachusetts v. EPA that the government is required to regulate and monitor carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions, as mandated by the Clean Air Act. The EPA under the Obama Administration declared in 2009 that greenhouse gases posed a serious risk to public health and welfare. In May 2009, Obama implemented the first national policy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from cars and trucks. Since then, every sector using any form of fossil fuel has been targeted by government. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act under Obama, a much smaller-scale version of the Inflation Reduction Act under Biden, allocated $7 billion to the EPA to clean up the environment. The EPA experienced record-breaking funding in 2010 when it was awarded $10.5 billion to address climate change. The government has since gained control over the entire energy sector, weaponizing an allegedly potential threat to gain control.
The ”endangerment finding” from 2009 may be overturned. “This long-overdue finding cements 2009’s place in history as the year when the United States Government began seriously addressing the challenge of greenhouse gas pollution and seizing the opportunity of clean-energy reform,” then-EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said in announcing the decision. Reversing the 2009 decision would reverse regulations that the president stated has “imposed trillions of dollars of costs on Americans.”
“The Obama administration said that carbon dioxide, when mixed with a bunch of other well-mixed gasses, greenhouse gasses, that it contributes to climate change. How much? They don’t say… they say that climate change engenders human health, so because of these different mental leaps… then there were all sorts of vehicle regulations that followed,” Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin stated. “This has been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion.”
Zeldin said that the Democrats used climate change scare tactics to “basically regulate out of existence” fossil fuels. He projects this massive regulation effort will save American taxpayers $1 trillion.
“Even if the United States eliminated all of its greenhouse gas emissions, it would have little to no measurable effect on global temperatures,” Daren Bakst, director of the Center for Energy and Environment at the Competitive Enterprise Institute admitted.
Look how far the agency was willing to go to stifle the production of emissions. They were seeking to limit our individual freedoms from banning cars to stoves and far-left climate zealots suggesting the government monitor everyone’s carbon footprint. America lost its energy independence between Obama and Biden and it was all tied into the globalist agenda of the Great Reset. Every nation that has adhered to climate change policies is experiencing an energy crisis for which they have no solution. You simply cannot eliminate fossil fuels without a reliable alternative and you definitely cannot significantly limit carbon emissions without changing life as we know it.
Critics believe the measure is merely to support Big Oil and permit coal and gas plants to pollute the environment. Trump did declare an energy emergency at the start of his presidency, famously saying “drill baby, drill,” as a nudge to begin extracting oil once more. The truth of the matter is that fossil fuels are essential for our survival. The EPA deliberately exploited the threat of greenhouse gases to grant the government authoritative power over energy.
