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applegrove

(126,949 posts) Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:30 PM Tuesday

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change

According to two people familiar with the draft, it would eliminate the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse-gas emissions threaten human life by dangerously warming the planet.

By Lisa Friedman
July 22, 2025, 10:56 p.m. ET

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/22/climate/epa-endangerment-finding-rescind.html

The Trump administration has drafted a plan to repeal a fundamental scientific finding that gives the United States government its authority to regulate greenhouse-gas emissions and fight climate change, according to two people familiar with the plan.

The proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule rescinds a 2009 declaration known as the “endangerment finding,” which scientifically established that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane endanger human lives.

That finding is the foundation of the federal government’s only tool to limit the climate pollution from vehicles, power plants and other industries that is dangerously heating the planet.

The E.P.A. proposal, which is expected to be made public within days, also calls for rescinding limits on tailpipe emissions that were designed to encourage automakers to build and sell more electric vehicles. Those regulations, which were based on the endangerment finding, were a fundamental part of the Biden administration’s efforts to move the country away from gasoline-powered vehicles. The transportation sector is the largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the United States.

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E.P.A. Is Said to Draft a Plan to End Its Ability to Fight Climate Change (Original Post) applegrove Tuesday OP

EPA will now become the Extreme Pollution Agency tinrobot Tuesday #1

This message was self-deleted by its author yankee87 Tuesday #2

Rivers of Fire yankee87 Tuesday #3

'According to two people familiar with the draft,' elleng Tuesday #4

Made me look .... cliffside Yesterday #6

He won't destroy the planet. tavernier Tuesday #5

tinrobot

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1. EPA will now become the Extreme Pollution Agency

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:33 PM

Tuesday

Jeez.

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yankee87

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3. Rivers of Fire

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:37 PM

Tuesday

Get ready for rivers on fire, changing clothes midday and bringing back the Pittsburgh showers

elleng

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4. 'According to two people familiar with the draft,'

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:39 PM

Tuesday

B.S.

Recall, Anne M. Gorsuch [Burford] 05/20/81 03/09/83

cliffside

(1,073 posts)

6. Made me look ....

Reply to elleng (Reply #4)

Wed Jul 23, 2025, 12:58 AM

Yesterday

thanks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Gorsuch_Burford

"Gorsuch based her administration of the EPA on the New Federalism approach of downsizing federal agencies by delegating their functions and services to the individual states.[5] She believed that the EPA was over-regulating business and that the agency was too large and not cost-effective. During her 22 months as agency head, she cut the budget of the EPA by 22%, reduced the number of cases filed against polluters, relaxed Clean Air Act regulations, and facilitated the spraying of restricted-use pesticides. She cut the total number of agency employees, and hired staff from the industries they were supposed to be regulating.[3] Environmentalists contended that her policies were designed to placate polluters, and accused her of trying to dismantle the agency.[1] It was reported in 1982 that the EPA was disregarding management of toxic landfills, citing costs."

tavernier

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5. He won't destroy the planet.

Reply to applegrove (Original post)

Tue Jul 22, 2025, 11:44 PM

Tuesday

He will just make life much harder for future generations. But since he won’t be here anyway, that’s not something he cares about.
But once we gluttonous humans are gone, the planet will renew itself in a few million years. I have to wonder what will replace us? Either way, I’m pretty sure the good old cockroach will pop up again somewhere, someday.

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