Environmental Protection Agency A major scientific discovery published 16 years ago has decided to cancel the discovery that six greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and should be regulated under the Clean Air Act.
Known as “Danger discovery, A conservative podcast On Tuesday that the agency is canceling the discovery, it is saying, “The biggest delegulatory action in the history of America.”
Since in 2009 it was signed by the then Administrator Lisa Jackson, the search has been used by EPA to regulate the sources of pollution causing pollution that causes climate change for oil and gas operations, along with other sources of transportation such as cars, power plants and aircraft.
During his appearance on “Ruthless Podcast”, Zeldin criticized the danger discovery, stating that it imposed too much regulatory restrictions on the stable sources of transport and greenhouse gas pollution.
“There are people who are ready to bankrupt the country in the name of climate change,” he said.
Zeldin also said that regulating climate pollution costs Americans a lot of money and by searching and canceling the rules, “This is expected to save more than a trillion dollars.”
But EPA’s own Regulatory impact report Limiting emissions for cars and trucks is expected to produce more than $ 2.1 trillion in net profit over the next 30 years, including $ 820 billion in fuel saving and $ 1.8 trillions in public health and climate gains.
The cancellation of the discovery comes when climate change effects appear to reach new heights because 2024 was the hottest year on records, and natural disasters are becoming more intense, Disastrous And deadly. Since 2010, there have been 246 billion-dollar disasters in every American state, causing more than $ 1.7 trillion damage, and more than 7,700 people have been killed, According to stored data of noaa,
In a statement, Professor of Ecology and Environmental Biology at Cornell University, Robert Howrth said, “For EPA to find boundaries on criminal negligence in 2009,” Robert Howrth, a professor of ecology and environmental biology at Cornel University, said in a statement. “Science was clear in 2009 and has become much stronger and clear since then: climate disruption is a large and growing problem; it is mainly from our use of fossil fuels and the resulting emissions of carbon dioxide and methane; and it is a fatal problem.”
Validity of crisis
In 2007, Supreme Court ruled Massachusetts vs EPA This greenhouse gases are a form of air pollution that can be regulated under the Clean Air Act, but it tasked the EPA with a scientific discovery whether gases harm public health.
Two years later, the EPA published the danger, which, relying on comprehensive scientific evidence and public input, surely suggests that greenhouse gases, which cause climate change, cause health and present and future generations welfare.
Search has been first challenged in court, Recently in 2023But the US Court of appeals for the DC circuit upheld the search and the Supreme Court refused to hear the case.
“The administration’s move for these standards motivates the EPA to direct the EPA before the Supreme Court’s Landmark verdict,” Christie Goldfus said in a statement, the Natural Resources Defense Council Executive Director Christie Goldfus said. “If EPA finalizes this illegal and condensed approach, we will see them in court.”
Effects of danger discovery
Since it was signed in 2009, the most important impact of regulating greenhouse gas has been in the US transport sector, which if it was its own country, according to the fourth largest source of greenhouse gas emissions in the world, according to, according to, according to, according to, European Commission And EPA data,
New passenger vehicles emit 24% less climate pollution in 2011, which came into force a year before the first telpipe rules, a year ago EPA’s own estimatesEPA tightens the telpipe emission standards for cars and trucks in 2024, which was expected to cut 7.2 billion tonnes of climate pollution and $ 13 billion by 2055 In annual health benefits.
In its economic analysis of EPA’s emission standards, it was found that it would save consumers an average of $ 6,000 in the life of a new vehicle, once the model year 2027 standard applies.
In addition to removing the rules on cars, EPA is already Equal rules for limiting emissions for power plantsFossil has encouraged and promised the development of fuel-based energy To roll dozens of additional environmental rules This is a hindrance to the development of American energy and manufacturing.
“Trump’s EPA is trying every trick in the book to refuse its missions and to avoid their mission to protect the environment and the environment from uncontrolled climate pollution. Instead of doing its work, this EPA is putting the safety of our loved ones at risk, increasing the safety, energy bills and disaster costs,” former EPA Administrator Gina McCathi said.
