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Editor\u2019s Note: <\/em>EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Trump have rescinded the greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding for vehicles. Climate Realism<\/em> has long maintained that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and we applaud this decision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Guest Post by Tate Miller, from <\/em>The Center Square<\/a>.<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Climate and energy experts have praised President Donald Trump\u2019s recent elimination of former President Barack Obama\u2019s Endangerment Finding, with several noting the freedom the action will bring to the auto industry and others stating this is only a beginning step.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac told The Center Square that repealing the Endangerment Finding \u201cfor mobile sources is a necessary first step toward correcting course, restoring the Clean Air Act to its proper role, and putting reliable, affordable energy back at the center of federal policy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Isaac told The Center Square how \u201cPresident Obama once said that under his energy policies, electricity prices would \u2018necessarily skyrocket.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cFor many American families and small businesses, that prediction proved accurate,\u201d Isaac said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe Endangerment Finding became the legal engine behind regulations that raised energy costs, distorted markets, and made affordability an afterthought,\u201d Isaac said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Endangerment Finding<\/a> was signed in 2009 under Obama\u2019s EPA and declared that certain greenhouse gases threatened public health, including carbon dioxide (CO2).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President of the Committee for a Constructive Tomorrow Craig Rucker said in a statement to The Center Square that \u201cat its core, the Endangerment Finding defies basic science and common sense.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCO2, the odorless, colorless, gas you just exhaled, is essential to life,\u201d Rucker said. \u201cIt is what plants rely on for photosynthesis to produce oxygen and food.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cWe are all made of that carbon,\u201d Rucker stated; thus, labeling CO2 \u201ca \u2018pollutant\u2019 is absurd, akin to declaring water vapor a threat.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Rucker said that \u201ca rigorous cost\/benefit analysis reveals the folly: trillions in economic costs from climate mandates that yield no meaningful environmental benefits, stifle innovation, jobs, and energy independence and distract from genuine environmental priorities.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Similar to Rucker, president of the Heartland Institute James Taylor told The Center Square in a statement that the Endangerment Finding defied science.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cCO2 is the gift of life for planet Earth, not a pollutant or a threat to public health and welfare,\u201d Rucker said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One expert told The Center Square of the freedom rescinding the Endangerment Finding will bring to the auto industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

President of Truth in Energy & Climate Frank Lasee said in a statement to The Center Square that the EPA\u2019s move is \u201ca clear win for buyers everywhere.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis action liberates the auto industry from burdensome emission restrictions and money-losing electric vehicle mandates, allowing manufacturers to build the cars and trucks consumers truly want,\u201d Lasee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cPresident Trump deserves strong applause for this decisive step,\u201d Lasee said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sterling Burnett, director of the Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy at The Heartland Institute, also noted the victory the EPA\u2019s rescinding brings to the car industry, telling The Center Square in a statement: \u201cToday is a win for car and truck buyers.\u201d.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Repealing the Endangerment Finding is \u201clong overdue and good for the American people,\u201d Burnett said. \u201cTrump should be applauded for taking this action.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNow it\u2019s time to strike another blow for affordability and strike while the iron is hot to rescind endangerment for power plants as well,\u201d Burnett said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Executive Director of the CO2 Coalition Gregory Wrightstone noted that \u201crescinding the endangerment finding is great but it\u2019s not the ballgame.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cNot only does the rescission have to stand up in court, it must result in the overturning of the 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA, where the Court wrongly ruled the EPA could regulate greenhouse gases even though Congress did not expressly authorize it,\u201d Wrightstone said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEven if the Trump EPA wins in court with respect to rescinding the endangerment finding, without also overturning Massachusetts v. EPA,  the next Democrat-run EPA will simply re-issue the endangerment finding and all the Trump EPA\u2019s great work will have been erased,\u201d Wrightstone said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Marc Morano, publisher of Climate Depot, said in a statement to The Center Square that \u201cremoving the CO2 Endangerment Finding from our lives will remove the legal basis for the misguided nonsense in the name of climate we\u2019ve had to endure for the last several decades.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Thursday<\/a> that he and Trump would be repealing the Endangerment Finding in the \u201csingle largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Trump have rescinded the greenhouse gas Endangerment Finding for vehicles.\u00a0Climate Realism\u00a0has long maintained that carbon dioxide is not a pollutant, and we applaud this decision.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":121246920,"featured_media":427386,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","_crdt_document":"","advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[691841569,691829997,691833542,691837981,691825193,691841570,691833487],"class_list":{"0":"post-427384","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"hentry","7":"category-uncategorized","8":"tag-american-energy-institute","9":"tag-carbon-dioxide-co","10":"tag-endangerment-finding","11":"tag-former-president-barack-obama","12":"tag-greenhouse-gas-ghg","13":"tag-jason-isaac","14":"tag-us-president-donald-j-trump","16":"fallback-thumbnail"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/image-353.png?fit=2048%2C1366&ssl=1","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/paxLW1-1Nbi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":426833,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=426833","url_meta":{"origin":427384,"position":0},"title":"Endangerment Finding Rescission Victory for Science and Law","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"18\/02\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"On February 12, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Administrator Lee Zeldin in the Trump administration, finalized a rule rescinding the 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding.","rel":"","context":"In \"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)\"","block_context":{"text":"carbon dioxide (CO\u2082)","link":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?tag=carbon-dioxide-co%e2%82%82"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-12-184328-1.png?fit=1033%2C937&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-12-184328-1.png?fit=1033%2C937&ssl=1&resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-12-184328-1.png?fit=1033%2C937&ssl=1&resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/climatescience.press\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/0Screenshot-2026-02-12-184328-1.png?fit=1033%2C937&ssl=1&resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":426214,"url":"https:\/\/climatescience.press\/?p=426214","url_meta":{"origin":427384,"position":1},"title":"Trump Administration Ends Obama-Era Climate Finding, Repeals Vehicle GHG Standards","author":"uwe.roland.gross","date":"14\/02\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"On February 12, 2026, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), under Administrator Lee Zeldin and alongside President Trump, finalized a major rule that revokes the 2009 Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding, a landmark Obama-era determination that greenhouse gases (GHGs) like carbon dioxide endanger public health and welfare. 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