{"id":375767,"date":"2025-04-19T11:09:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375767"},"modified":"2025-04-19T11:09:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T09:09:34","slug":"endangerment-finding-endangers-energy-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=375767","title":{"rendered":"Endangerment Finding endangers energy & freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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From CFACT<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

By Craig Rucker<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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One of the Trump administration\u2019s most important executive actions is the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s review of the Obama EPA\u2019s determination that carbon dioxide (CO2) endangers our health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Obama and Biden administrations both used the 2009 \u201cEndangerment Finding<\/a>\u201d (EF) to justify regulating and even banning virtually anything that emits carbon dioxide: coal and gas electricity generation, gasoline and diesel vehicles, gas furnaces, water heaters, stoves and ovens, and ultimately our living standards.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How could that happen in the land of the free \u2013 the home of science, democracy and industry?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

George Orwell might say the problem began with the 1984<\/em><\/strong> US Supreme Court decision in Chevron v. Natural Resources Defense Council<\/em>. That ruling established \u201cChevron deference,\u201d requiring that courts defer to \u201creasonable\u201d government agency interpretations of ambiguous laws and statutory language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ambiguous laws and ambitious agencies are a dangerous combination.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPA, for example, often collaborated with activist groups (and states) to turn accidentally or purposefully vague legislative language into powerful regulations with enormous national costs and impacts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s 2007 Massachusetts v. EPA<\/em><\/a> ruling magnified those dangers. It held that the EPA could regulate CO2 if the agency found it \u201ccauses or contributes\u201d to \u201cair pollution\u201d that may be \u201creasonably anticipated\u201d to \u201cendanger public health or welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Obama EPA jumped at the opportunity. It needed less than a year to perform a dubious analysis and issue the December 2009 Endangerment Finding \u2013 enabling the agency to control America\u2019s electricity generation, transportation, factories, agriculture, and households.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was the pinnacle of government control. Never before had so few bureaucrats exerted so much power over so many lives, with so little oversight by the legislative or judicial branch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

However, this expanding executive branch overreach eventually persuaded the Supreme Court to reexamine its earlier rulings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Court\u2019s 2022 decision in West Virginia v. EPA<\/em><\/a> curtailed the worst excesses. The justices ruled that federal agencies may not violate the \u201cmajor questions doctrine,\u201d which states: in the absence of clear congressional direction or authorization, agencies may not make decisions or issue regulations \u201cof vast economic and political significance.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPA can hardly argue that the 1970 Clean Air Act<\/a> somehow implies that carbon dioxide is a dangerous pollutant when neither the original statute nor any subsequent amendments list CO2 as such \u2013 nor when this gas is what humans exhale and plants absorb to grow, enabling planetary life to survive and thrive.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nor can EPA claim that its EF and subsequent efforts to control most of the US economy are not \u201cmajor\u201d actions and have only minimal economic and political significance.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPA\u2019s Endangerment Finding and EF-based regulations clearly violate West Virginia v EPA<\/em> guidelines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Supreme Court\u2019s 2024 ruling in Loper Bright v. Raimondo<\/em><\/a> went further. It overturned Chevron v. NRDC<\/em> and severely limited judicial deference to government agencies. EPA regulators may no longer devise \u201creasonable interpretations\u201d of unclear statutory language if doing so greatly expands their regulatory authority; significantly increases the cost of complying with a law; or restricts people\u2019s rights to earn a living or choose their automobiles, food, furnaces, and other necessities.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPA\u2019s Endangerment Finding should also be reversed because the agency put its thumb on the scale when weighing evidence for and against CO2\u2019s role in human and planetary health.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the Endangerment Finding, the \u201csocial cost of carbon<\/a>\u201d calculations, and the subsequent regulations, the EPA emphasized carbon dioxide\u2019s alleged role in driving an assumed man-made climate crisis \u2013 and ignored CO2\u2019s vital role in advancing planetary and human health and welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That violates sound science and the Information Quality Act<\/a> which requires that agency decisions reflect best available evidence and be based on analyses that are accurate, clear, complete, and unbiased.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Increasing atmospheric carbon dioxide results in part from<\/a> warmer oceans releasing CO2 into the atmosphere and in part from emissions from vital human activities that safeguard and prolong life: growing crops and livestock, heating and cooling homes, manufacturing essential products, transporting food and people, responding to emergencies, and more.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Higher CO2 levels benefit plant growth in forests, grasslands, and agricultural fields<\/a>. They are \u201cgreening Planet Earth<\/a>,\u201d expanding plant coverage in desert areas by enabling plants to grow better with less water.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPA\u2019s CO2 regulations are curtailing those activities, reducing their enormous benefits, and thus harming human health and welfare.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Obama EPA also relied on computer models that assume carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases are the primary factor in moderate planetary temperature increases, extreme weather events, and alleged species extinctions \u2013 while ignoring the powerful solar, cosmic, oceanic, and other natural forces that have driven significant climate change throughout history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additional problems with the EF and regulations based on it are detailed in CFACT\u2019s amicus curiae brief<\/a> to the Supreme Court in Southeastern Legal Foundation v. EPA<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is no statutory or judicial foundation for deference to EPA\u2019s Endangerment Finding, no legal or scientific basis for it. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin should toss the EF on history\u2019s ash heap.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This article originally appeared at Newsmax<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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