Elizabeth Kolbert

Maybe this time we can get a different decision.

Right.

Right now, the endangerment finding, they have published the sort of official revocation or rescission of that finding.

So therefore, we do not find that CO2 is a danger under the Clean Air Act.

We don't have to regulate it.

And

This is already in litigation.

But I think what's so crucial about this is that not only is it eliminating the regulations that Biden had put into place, but if it gets to the Supreme Court, if they get a decision that reverses Massachusetts v. EPA, then it will be basically impossible for any future administration to use the Clean Air Act.

to try to regulate greenhouse gas emissions.

So they're really trying to handicap the agency.

Well, one of the interesting things about Lee Zeldin is he

You know, he represented this district in eastern Long Island that's very vulnerable to climate change.

Sea level rise and flooding are big problems.

And when he was a member of Congress, he actually joined in 2016 the Climate Solutions Caucus, which is this bipartisan group, you know, ostensibly working to

further climate change solutions.

So he was not a climate change denier in a sort of full blown Trumpian sense.

And now he has come to the EPA and speaks of driving a dagger through the heart of the climate change religion.

Now, what does he mean by that?

Well,

It's never actually spelled out what the climate change religion is as opposed to climate change science.