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Lee Zeldin, President Donald Trump's chief for the Environmental Protection Agency, has announced plans to remove the foundation on which trillions of dollars of environmental rules are based.
He has announced a proposal that would remove the "endangerment" finding, from back in 2009, that claimed greenhouse gases like carbon monoxide and methane actually "threaten" the public's health.
That concept is the base assumption on which myriad environmental rules, regulations and requirements are based.
A report at Fox Business explains the Barack Obama-era finding "serves as the legal foundation for a host of climate regulations stemming from the Clean Air Act."
Affected will be chemical plants, utilities, steel mills and more.
"With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end 16 years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers," Zeldin confirmed in a statement. "In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year."
He announced the looming change during an interview with the "Ruthless" podcast, calling the move against the green precedent one that will drive "a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion."
An estimated $54 billion spending for Americans each year will be saved because mandates like Joe Biden's forcing expensive electric vehicles on Americans will be scaled back.
"A lot of people are out there listening, they might not know what the endangerment finding is. If you ask congressional Democrats to describe what it is, the left would say that it means that carbon dioxide is a pollutant, carbon dioxide is an endangerment to human health. They might say methane is a pollutant, methane is an endangerment to human health," Zeldin said.
He said that's actually inaccurate.
"The Obama administration said that carbon dioxide, when mixed with a bunch of other well-mixed gasses, greenhouse gasses, that it contributes to climate change. How much? They don't say … they say that climate change endangers human health, so because of these different mental leaps… then there were all sorts of vehicle regulations that followed."
The announcement marked the beginning of a process through which the precedent actually will be dumped.
