OPINION:
The Environmental Protection Agency finalized its repeal of the Endangerment Finding, and in so doing, opened the doors for more U.S. production, more energy independence, and the return of common sense to climate-related regulations.
And so, of course, the left is complaining.
“The Trump EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal: Wrong on Statute, Deceptive on Science, Reckless on Impacts,” the Union of Concerned Scientists wrote in a recent essay on “The Equation.”
Meanwhile, CNN did its usual duck and dodge on truth with this spinning headline above a story about Trump’s repeal of the Endangerment Finding: “19 years ago, the Supreme Court told EPA it could regulate climate pollution. Trump is trying to undo that.”
The spin is that carbon dioxide, which was pulled out of thin air by the Barack Obama administration as a deemed pollutant, is not, in fact a pollutant. While the EPA can regulate climate pollutants, the fabrication of the Obama White House was to label CO2 as a pollutant — and in so doing, give the government the power to control and regulate about every aspect of human activity. And now, the fabrication of CNN is to pretend, via headline, that Trump is trying to dismantle the EPA’s ability to regulate climate pollutants — despite the fact Trump’s EPA is only reeling back an overreaching action of the Obama days to create a regulatory tool called Carbon Dioxide.
As Jim Lakely, vice president and director of communication for The Heartland Institute, said, Trump is bringing back common sense and truthful science to environmental policy.
“Carbon dioxide is not a pollutant,” Lakely said.
Never was. Obama, Democrats, leftists just love to label it one so they can intrude into areas in which they don’t belong — like forcing vehicles to switch off when idling at stop signs or in traffic, all in the name of saving the planet.
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