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| Trump, Zeldin roll back Obama-era climate change rule ‐ saving each American more than $3,800 | ||
| 2026-02-13 | ||
| [NYP] WASHINGTON — President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin unveiled what they called the biggest red tape removal in US history Thursday, axing a sweeping Obama-era anti-greenhouse gas policy and predicting it could save $1.3 trillion, or about $3,823.50 per US resident. "Today, the Trump EPA has finalized the single largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States of America," Zeldin said alongside Trump in the White House Roosevelt Room. "Referred to by some as the holy grail of federal regulatory overreach, the 2009 Obama EPA endangerment finding is now eliminated." The repeal ends a policy allowing the feds to regulate fossil fuels by declaring them dangerous to public health. The so-called "endangerment finding" allowed the EPA to measure and constrain the output of six greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act — including emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and nitrous oxide by vehicles amd power plants. Trump called the finding "a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers," predicting they would save "trillions of dollars" as a result of Thursday’s action. A detailed savings breakdown was not released. The president added that his administration was "terminating all additional green emission standards imposed unnecessarily on vehicle models and engines between 2012 and 2027 and beyond." Zeldin said the changes could lower car costs by an average of about $2,400.
"Not only do many people find start-stop annoying, but it kills the battery of your car without any significant benefit to the environment. The Trump EPA is proudly fixing this stupid feature at Trump Speed." Zeldin said automakers shouldn’t be forced to adopt or be rewarded for using technologies that represent a "climate participation trophy" with no meaningful reduction in actual pollution. The former New York lawmaker said consumer choice is a priority for his agency, and that his office will continue to advocate for "commonsense rules." However, the climate change field appears eager to litigate the new rule, as the nonprofit green-focused law firm Earthjustice signaled as much to PBS. "The Trump administration is abandoning its core responsibility to keep us safe from extreme weather and accelerating climate change," Earthjustic president Abigail Dillen told the outlet. "There is no way to reconcile EPA's decision with the law, the science and the reality of disasters that are hitting us harder every year. Earthjustice and our partners will see the Trump administration in court."
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