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Trump Admin Eliminates Obama-Era Vehicle/Engine Emission Standards

According to Trump's EPA, Obama's EPA played mental gymnastics to justify their suffocating regulations.

Notably, 'global warming' is not just fake science, but a global crisis for a global solution, a global tax for a global government.

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On Thursday President Donald Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) eliminated both the Obama-era 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Endangerment Finding and all subsequent federal GHG emission standards for all vehicles and engines of model years 2012 to 2027 and beyond, which the agency says will save the American taxpayers over $1.3 trillion.

“The action also eliminates all off-cycle credits, including for the almost universally hated start-stop feature. EPA’s historic move restores consumer choice, makes more affordable vehicles available for American families, and decreases the cost of living on all products by lowering the cost of trucks. This major deregulatory process included substantial public input and robust analysis of the law following the U.S. Supreme Court decision in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo and West Virginia v. EPA,” the EPA press release said.

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Image credit: WASHINGTON, DC – FEBRUARY 12: U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin (R) speaks alongside U.S. President Donald Trump during an event to announce a rollback of the 2009 Endangerment Finding in the Roosevelt Room at the White House on February 12, 2026 in Washington, DC. The Trump administration will repeal the 2009 central scientific finding that allows the EPA to regulate climate-warming emissions. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

Watch Trump and Zeldin make the announcement during a press conference Thursday.

Notably, ‘global warming’ is not just fake science, but a global crisis for a global solution, a global tax for a global government.

The Trump EPA detailed the mental gymnastics that the Obama EPA took to institute their onerous regulations.

“…the Obama EPA found that carbon dioxide emissions emitted from automobiles – in combination with five other gases, some of which vehicles don’t even emit – contribute an unknown amount to greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere that, in turn, play a role through varied causal chains that may endanger human health and welfare. These mental leaps were admittedly novel, as EPA had for decades understood that the “air pollution” targeted by the statute means pollution that harms health or the environment through local and regional exposure. However, this creative interpretation of the law was the only way the Obama-Biden Administration determined they could potentially access EPA’s authority to regulate under Section 202(a)(1). This flawed legal theory took the agency outside the scope of its statutory authority in multiple respects,” the press release said.

“The Endangerment Finding has been the source of 16 years of consumer choice restrictions and trillions of dollars in hidden costs for Americans,” Administrator Zeldin said, according to the press release. “Referred to by some as the ‘Holy Grail’ of the ‘climate change religion,’ the Endangerment Finding is now eliminated. The Trump EPA is strictly following the letter of the law, returning commonsense to policy, delivering consumer choice to Americans and advancing the American Dream. As EPA Administrator, I am proud to deliver the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history on behalf of American taxpayers and consumers. As an added bonus, the off-cycle credit for the almost universally despised start-stop feature on vehicles has been removed.”

Instead of furthering the control over Americans via the lie of climate alarmism, Trump’s EPA is freeing Americans from the most onerous “green” regulations that have taken place this century.

The 2009 Endangerment Finding was used to justify trillions of dollars in regulations, including the Obama and Biden Administrations’ illegal push towards Electric Vehicle (EV) mandates and compliance requirements, while simultaneously driving up the cost of vehicles for American families and small businesses— limiting economic mobility and the American Dream. The final rule will save Americans over $1.3 trillion by removing the regulatory requirements to measure, report, certify, and comply with federal GHG emission standards for motor vehicles, and repeals associated compliance programs, credit provisions, and reporting obligations that exist solely to support the vehicle GHG regulatory regime. Americans will have certainty, flexibility and regulatory relief, allowing companies to plan appropriately, and empowering American families.

The press release also explained that emission regulations are being taken away from the climate cult and “Returning the Rule of Law to EPA Regulations,” as the agency begins “Creating Policy Rooted in Reality,” to further the quest of “Restoring the American Dream,” via “Prioritizing Consumer Choice,” after “Collecting Substantial Public Input.” Note that the EPA elaborated on each quoted point in their press release.


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