The president said, "Under this process just completed by EPA, we are officially terminating [the] so-called endangerment finding—a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers.

The agency decided that six key greenhouse gases (including carbon dioxide, methane, and others) endanger both public health and welfare, laying the groundwork for hyper-regulation that restricted both prosperity and personal liberty. Subsequent rules promulgated by the EPA allowed the agency to essentially wage a “War on Fossil Fuels,” a “War on Appliances,” and a “War on Meat.” Biden’s ludicrous “Inflation Reduction Act” further fueled this inanity by codifying the “Green New Deal.”

Zeldan said that the move “will save $1.3 trillion by removing the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify, and comply with federal GHG emission standards for motor vehicles, and repeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions, and reporting obligations that exist solely to support the vehicle GHG regulatory regime.”

CBS’s Weijia Jiang< on today’s EPA announcement: “What do you tell Americans who are concerned that the $1.3 trillion in savings does come at a cost to public health and the environment, based on science?”

President Trump “I tell them, don’t worry about it, because it has nothing to do with public health. This is all a scam, a giant scam. This was a rip off of the country by Obama and Biden, and let’s say Obama started it and got it rolling and a terrible rip off. They’ll have more money to spend for health care. You look at it now, they can go out and spend it on something that’s meaningful, and nobody’s doing more for health care than the Republican Party. And that starts with the fact that prescription drugs are going to be coming down at numbers that nobody’s ever seen before. They’re falling. You know, we were paying...

President Trump on Thursday announced he was erasing the scientific finding that climate change endangers human health and the environment, ending the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution [sic] that is dangerously heating the planet.

The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging heat waves, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather.

Led by a president who refers to climate change as a “hoax,” the administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong and that a hotter planet is not the menace that decades of research shows it to be.

It’s a rejection of fact that had been accepted for decades by presidents of both parties, including Richard Nixon, whose top adviser warned of the dangers of climate change and the first President George Bush, who signed an international climate treaty.