Trump Just Ended the EPA’s Climate Power Grab, and the Left Is Losing It. By Matt Margolis at PJ Media.
President Donald Trump just delivered a knockout punch to Obama-era climate hysteria, and the bureaucrats are having a total meltdown.
On Thursday, the Trump administration finalized rules repealing the EPA’s endangerment finding — that dubious 2009 determination claiming six greenhouse gases threaten human health under the Clean Air Act. …
The endangerment finding was the entire foundation for the EPA’s power grab over climate policy under the Barack Obama regime. It allowed unelected bureaucrats to impose crushing regulations on the oil and gas industry, power plants, and vehicles, all without Congress ever voting to grant them that authority. Essentially, it let EPA staffers reshape the entire American economy based on a single “finding” they issued themselves.
Trump’s repeal also axes those vehicle emission rules, since they all stem from the same flawed finding. …
Eye-rolling time:
Naturally, the left is freaking out. The New York Times report on the repeal came with the loaded headline “Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change.”
Can you hear me rolling my eyes? …
Climate groups will sue. I’m sure they’re shopping some Obama or Biden-nominated judge right now. Media outlets will wail about the end of the world. …
Who should be in charge — elected officials or bureaucrats?
Legal experts expect Trump’s EPA to argue that the Clean Air Act simply doesn’t give bureaucrats the power to regulate climate pollution — not that climate science itself is wrong. …
Even if you buy into climate alarmism, the question remains: who gets to make policy about it? Elected representatives in Congress, or unaccountable agency officials? …
Trump just reminded Washington of something it desperately needed to hear: agencies don’t get to legislate, no matter how righteous they think their cause is.
I’ve been working in Republican politics for 26 years. Every Republican I’ve ever worked for said they were going to shrink the government. Trump’s the only one that ever did it.
