Ari Weitzman
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13 recordings
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5d ago
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And the Trump administration is entering the stage first, giving a haughty monologue, emphasizing that the EPA doesn't classify CO two as a pollutant, and thus the endangerment finding is nonsense, little more than an artifact of climate change hysteria.
The Trump EPA is strictly following the letter of the law, returning common sense to policy, delivering consumer choice to Americans, and advancing the American dream.
So let's talk about the letter of the law.
The Clean Air Act defines a pollutant as an airborne particle or chemical that causes or contributes significantly to air pollution, which may reasonably be anticipated to endanger public health or welfare.
Yes, the law says nothing about greenhouse gases specifically, and those gases and their role in climate change are not a part of the EPA's NAAQS restrictions.
So in a way, Zeldin is right.
In another, much more immediate way, Zeldin is wrong.
According to Massachusetts v.
EPA in 2007, greenhouse gases do fit the Clean Air Act's definition of air pollutants.
That means the opinion of the Supreme Court is that the letter of the law here explicitly allows the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
Thus the agency's two thousand nine endangerment findings.
You may also remember that Zelden has already rescinded the endangerment fund.
He also repealed the EPA's tailpipe emission standards and off cycle credits for vehicles.
As I said of that decision, the likely effects would probably be the opposite of what you'd expect.
Removing the standards probably won't impact vehicle emissions.
Removing the credits will probably require vehicles to actually be more efficient, and the deregulation would probably end up costing the industry in the long run.
If Act One's vehicle emission story is a farce, Act Two's power plant deregulation is much more of a drama.
In twenty twenty-four, the EPA under President Biden required long term coal plants and new gas plants to capture ninety percent of their carbon emissions by twenty thirty two.
They do this through carbon capture and storage technology or CCS, which captures CO two at the smokestack before the gas can enter the atmosphere and allows these plants to sell it as a byproduct, usually to gas drillers, ironically.
The Biden administration believed existing CCS technology is mature enough to enact these requirements.
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