BREAKING: Trump Just Ended the EPA’s Climate Power Grab – and the Left Is Losing It

By Matt Margolis

“We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding,” Trump announced, calling the policy exactly what it was: “disastrous.”

WASHINGTON, D.C. (Texas Insider Report) — This wasn’t just some regulatory tweak. President Donald Trump just delivered a knockout punch to Obama-era climate hysteria, and the bureaucrats are having a total meltdown. On Thursday, the Trump administration finalized rules repealing the EPA’s "Endangerment finding" — that dubious 2009 determination claiming six greenhouse gases threaten human health under the Clean Air Act.

The endangerment finding was the entire foundation for the EPA’s (Environmental Protection Agency,) power grab over U.S. Climate Policy under the Barack Obama regime.

“We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding,” Trump announced, calling the policy exactly what it was: “disastrous.”

It allowed unelected bureaucrats to impose crushing regulations on the oil and gas industry, power plants, and vehicles, all without Congress ever voting to grant them that authority.

Essentially, it let EPA staffers reshape the entire American economy based on a single “finding” they issued themselves.

Trump’s repeal also axes those vehicle emission rules, since they all stem from the same flawed finding.

In addition, the Trump administration will finalize a repeal of rules that regulate greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, since they stem from the finding. Under former President Joe Biden, the EPA sought to tighten those standards to prod the auto industry to make more fuel-efficient hybrids and electric vehicles — an effort the industry has since backtracked on.

The full text of EPA’s repeal of the Endangerment Finding wasn’t made available before the Trump administration announced it, but the justification will likely rely far more on legal arguments that climate pollution cannot be regulated by the landmark Clean Air Act than an outright rejection of climate science, legal experts told CNN.

Naturally, the left is freaking out. The New York Times report on the repeal came with the loaded headline, “Trump Administration Erases the Government’s Power to Fight Climate Change.”

Can you hear me rolling my eyes?

Good riddance.

Abigail Dillen from Earthjustice promised to “see the Trump administration in court,” crying about “disasters that are hitting us harder every year.” Because, as you probably noticed, every single weather event is now treated like a climate emergency requiring EPA dictators to run our lives.

Legal experts expect Trump’s EPA to argue that the Clean Air Act simply doesn’t give bureaucrats the power to regulate climate pollution — not that climate science itself is wrong. That’s the right approach. Even if you buy into climate alarmism, the question remains: who gets to make policy about it? Elected representatives in Congress, or unaccountable agency officials?

Climate groups will sue. I’m sure they're shopping some Obama or Biden-nominated judge right now. Media outlets will wail about the end of the world. But Trump just reminded Washington of something it desperately needed to hear: agencies don’t get to legislate, no matter how righteous they think their cause is.

The administrative state spent decades expanding its power through creative interpretations of old laws never meant to address modern policy debates. Trump is finally pushing back, and the establishment can’t stand it.

According to Jeff Holmstead, an energy attorney with the law firm Bracewell, and a former high-ranking EPA official in the George W. Bush administration – he headed the EPA’s Office of Air & Radiation from 2001 to 2005, longer than anyone in EPA history:

If the Trump administration’s repeal is “upheld in court, no future EPA will be able to regulate (carbon dioxide) emissions.”

Matt Margolis, commentator, columnist for @pjmedia_com, and editorial cartoonsist @MargolisAndCox, has been cited on Fox News and national conservative Talk Radio, including The Rush Limbaugh Show, The Mark Levin Show, and The Dan Bongino Show. He is the author of several books, and has appeared on Newsmax, Real America’s Voice News, Salem News Channel – and even CNN.