Trump Admin Rolls Back Greenhouse Gas/Environmental Safeguards

The latest in a litany of Donald Trump’s rollback of climate and environmental safeguards — the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten human life.

The EPA has decided the endangerment finding, a 2009 scientific conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions pose a danger to Americans’ health, “overstated” the risks of those emissions.

Note – The endangerment finding was based on more than 200 pages of research and evidence.

This effectively ends the federal government’s legal authority to control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet.

Happy Darwin Day y’all — adapt or die.

From the New York Times:

The action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging heat waves, droughts, wildfires and other extreme weather.

Led by a president who refers to climate change as a “hoax,” the administration is essentially saying that the vast majority of scientists around the world are wrong and that a hotter planet is not the menace that decades of research shows it to be.

It’s a rejection of fact that had been accepted for decades by presidents of both parties, including Richard Nixon, whose top adviser warned of the dangers of climate change, and the first President George Bush, who signed an international climate treaty.

Following today’s policy change, the EPA will move to erase limits on emissions from cars, power plants and other industries that release the vast majority of planet-warming pollution.

The added pollution could lead to as many as 58,000 premature deaths and an increase of 37 million asthma attacks between now and 2055, according to the Environmental Defense Fund, an advocacy group.

Read more here.

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— Jill Geisler (@JillGeisler) February 13, 2026