“We’ll be Friends Forever, won’t we, Pooh?’ asked Piglet.
Even longer,’ Pooh answered.”
― A.A. Milne, Winnie The Pooh.
Today is the day that the Anglican Communion commemorates St. Valentine. St. Valentine ministered to persecuted Christians in the Roman Empire. He was martyred, and buried on February 14. Hence the celebration of St. Valentine’s Day since 496 A.D. The Hallmark Card Company had nothing to do with it.
This past Thursday, the Trump Administration rescinded an Obama Administration finding that empowered the federal government to regulate “greenhouse gases” as pollution. What are “greenhouse gases”? Well, one example is your breathing. Yep, when you exhale carbon dioxide, you are polluting the planet, by expelling a “greenhouse gas”. It is absolutely insane, unscientific, and lacking any foundation in law, there being no authority granted to Congress, much less the Environmental Protection Agency, to regulate such naturally occurring emissions.
Below are 2 articles analyzing the recission of the regulation, and celebrating the death of the “global warming” hoax perpetrated by former Vice-President Al Gore and company. I hope you find them to be informative and enlightening.
Trump’s about to cancel Obama’s most outrageous power grab
BY: Judge Glock, The New York Post (February 10, 2026).
President Trump is on the brink of ordering a massive policy shakeup — “the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” says Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin.
When Trump’s EPA orders the end of a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are a threat to public health, it will halt 16 years of federal efforts to mandate vast changes in American life without legal justification.
The so-called Endangerment Finding led to a host of regulations whose estimated costs exceeded a trillion dollars.
Early in his administration, President Barack Obama tried to get Congress to pass an expansive climate change law.
When the bill stalled, Obama charged ahead with executive action.
The EPA’s December 2009 Endangerment Finding said greenhouse gases should be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
But that law was never meant for such a purpose: It had passed 40 years earlier, before global warming was even a topic of debate.
The Clean Air Act aimed to control a handful of pollutants that posed an immediate danger to public health — think factory smokestacks or exhaust from auto tailpipes.
Greenhouse gases, by contrast, are emitted by almost everything, everywhere — including by humans ourselves, while breathing.
There was and is no clear and legal way to regulate them under the law, leading to years of uncertainty and court challenges.
The greatest effect of the Endangerment Finding was on automobiles.
The Biden administration used it to require the vast majority of new cars and trucks to be electric-powered by 2032, a huge, and hugely expensive, undertaking.
The American people never voted for one of the nation’s largest industries to be transformed in a decade — but under the Endangerment Finding, the EPA could impose it.
The EPA claimed the new EV mandates would save companies and households money in the long run, due to reduced spending on gasoline.
But as with most energy efficiency regulations, it never explained why the government had to step in and mandate something so beneficial.
President Joe Biden’s EPA waved away objections that many truckers and households would have difficulty spending thousands of extra dollars on electric vehicles.
Trump’s team says withdrawing the finding will save almost $2,500 per automobile.
Even environmentalists know climate change is not top of mind for many voters — so they argue EV mandates will reduce other types of automobile emissions that harm public health.
The Sierra Club claims that rolling back the finding will cause thousands more deaths from things like respiratory illnesses and heart attacks.
But assertions about how climate change mandates improve other aspects of health show the Endangerment Finding’s absurdity.
The Clean Air Act already includes extensive provisions to protect the public from air pollutants, and administrations of all stripes have enforced them.
If Obama or Biden had wanted to further limit automobile pollution, they could have done so directly — not used a roundabout way that Congress did not contemplate.
Like most of Trump’s executive actions, the withdrawal of the Endangerment Finding will be challenged in court.
Environmentalists will argue that the finding was required by an earlier Supreme Court ruling, and that climate change is indeed a threat to public health.
Yet the earlier Supreme Court climate change ruling underestimated the vast potential it gave to the administrative state to reshape the economy.
Even Chief Justice John Roberts, writing in dissent, thought the effect of the ruling would likely be “symbolic.”
He couldn’t have been more wrong.
Today’s Supreme Court is laser-focused on the dangers imposed by an overreaching administrative state.
In 2022, the justices struck down an effort to regulate greenhouse gases emitted by power plants through the Endangerment Finding, declaring that in the case of a “major question” that affected vast swaths of the economy, Congress would have to clearly authorize any administrative action.
It’s hard to think of more of a major question than regulating greenhouse gases from all cars across the United States.
Although the Supreme Court has at times upbraided Trump for his efforts to rule by executive action, in this case, the president is using executive action to reduce the power of the government.
The courts should uphold his Endangerment Finding withdrawal and restore power to Congress, which is supposed to authorize new laws.
The EPA does not, and should not, have such power.
Trump debunking Al Gore’s climate fears has made the world a better place
BY: Miranda Devine, The New York Post (February 11, 2026).
Ding dong, the climate hoax is dead.
Twenty years after Al Gore’s apocalyptic movie “An Inconvenient Truth,” the Trump administration has put the final nail in the coffin of the lie that scared a generation into believing the planet was about to explode in flames if they kept using fossil fuels.
In what the White House calls “the largest deregulatory action in American history,” the EPA on Thursday will repeal an Obama-era proclamation that has mandated greenhouse-gas regulations for 17 years,
The 2009 “endangerment finding” has been the primary climate handbrake on American industry, forming the legal justification for increasingly punitive greenhouse-gas regulations.
Rescinding it would “save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations,” White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said this week, with the EPA projecting an average saving of $2,400 per vehicle and further savings on farm machinery, soon to be freed from the complex extra circuitry required to restrict emissions.
It will also end Joe Biden’s enforced transition to electric vehicles by 2030.
Yay!
It’s about time that common sense returned to energy policy.
During the recent bone-chilling winter storm that hit 200 million Americans across more than 35 states, it wasn’t wind and solar that kept the lights on but fossil fuels.
Fueling US prosperity
According to the Florida Municipal Power Agency, 90% of power generation in the country at the height of the storm was natural gas, coal, nuclear or oil.
Cheap, abundant energy fueled America’s prosperity, but charlatans citing pseudoscience have conspired to send us back to the dark ages with hyperbolic predictions that keep falling apart.
As we keep sailing past the various doomsday deadlines set by climate shucksters from Gore to Greta Thunberg, the public has been waking up to the hoax.
GFK
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