Monday, April 21, 2025

Ending EPA's "Endangerment Finding" Tyranny

Whoa!  This is another Very Big Deal!

... Some brief history is in order. The EF [Endangerment Finding] is a December 2009 determination by the Obama EPA that emissions of greenhouse gases harm the public health and welfare. Since that time, the EF has been the factual and scientific foundation of virtually all climate activity undertaken by the federal government.  

The EF was made possible by a combination of scheming by the Clinton EPA, bungling by the Bush EPA, and judicial activism resulting in the 5-4 2007 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts v. EPA... [Another utterly stupid SCOTUS decision, by the way.]

OK.  So what?

...On April 9, President Donald Trump issued an executive order, “Directing the Repeal of Unlawful Regulations,” directing agencies to come up with lists of regulations that run afoul of recent Supreme Court decisions. Select illegal regulations, as determined by the Trump administration, will then be terminated without the notice-and-comment process of the Administrative Procedures Act. The rationale is simply that: (1) the regulations are illegal per the Supreme Court decision; (2) they are no longer operative; and (3) terminating them does not require any sort of due process, so to speak. 

One of these recent Supreme Court decisions listed in the executive order is 2022’s West Virginia v. EPA. In that case, the Court held that the Obama EPA’s 2015 Clean Power Plan, an ironic progeny of the EF, was unconstitutional. Under the Court’s newly adopted “major questions doctrine,” significant regulatory agency programs require express congressional authorization. The Court deemed the Clean Power Plan to be a “major question” that lacked congressional authorization and, therefore, invalid.  ...

 If you thought the Radical Left (Red disguised as Green) was screeching up to now, you ain't seen nothing yet.

Just buy out the popcorn shelf at your local grocery.  You'll go through a lot of it in the next few months.  

Oh--and as a precaution--stock up on ammo, too.  It may become a necessity.


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