The NY Times is Very Upset over this
Trump Allies Near ‘Total Victory’ in Wiping Out U.S. Climate Regulation
In the summer of 2022, Democrats in Congress were racing to pass the biggest climate law in the country’s history and President Joseph R. Biden Jr. was declaring that global warming posed a “clear and present danger” to the United States.
But behind the scenes, four Trump administration veterans were plotting to obliterate federal climate efforts once Republicans regained control in Washington, according to documents reviewed by The New York Times and interviews with more than a dozen people familiar with the matter.
Two of them, Russell T. Vought and Jeffrey B. Clark, were high-profile allies of Donald Trump. Mr. Vought, who has railed against “climate alarmism,” and Mr. Clark, who has called climate rules a “Leninistic” plot to seize control of the economy, drafted executive orders for the next Republican president to dismantle climate initiatives.
The other two, Mandy Gunasekara and Jonathan Brightbill, were lesser-known conservative attorneys with long histories of fighting climate initiatives. Ms. Gunasekara, a onetime aide to the most vocal global warming denialist in the Senate, and Mr. Brightbill, who had argued in court against Obama-era climate regulations, collected an “arsenal of information” to chip away at the scientific consensus that the planet is warming, documents show.
Their efforts are now paying off. In the coming days, the Environmental Protection Agency is expected to revoke a determination that has underpinned the federal government’s ability to fight global warming since 2009.
You can feel the crying and teeth gnashing going on at the Times, eh?
In revoking that determination, the Trump administration would erase limits on greenhouse gases from cars, power plants and industries that generate the planet-warming pollution.
Unlike the swings in federal policy that have become routine when administrations change hands, getting rid of the endangerment finding could hamstring any future administration’s efforts to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.
Trump should pass an EO that anyone who supports the endangerment finding should practice what they preach. Let’s see if any do.
Not to worry: with the ending of the government’s attempts to force everyone to comply with
global warmingclimate change fighting measures, our greenhouse gas emissions will still fall by half again as all Democrats will adopt them voluntarily, by trading in their gas-burning vehicles for plug-in electrics, discard their electric clothes dryers for clotheslines, eschew meat and dairy to go vegan, change out their gas appliances for all-electric ones, and install solar panels on thir roofs.