Catherine Salgado writes for PJMedia.com about a significant Trump administration achievement.
The Trump administration is once again restoring sanity to government regulation and saving trillions of dollars by taking on one of the most preposterous of climate regulations.
Perhaps Barack Obama’s most egregious power grab and most preposterous set of regulations regarded so-called greenhouse gases, which are simply the gases emitted by nearly all things, especially living things, including humans. For instance, climate alarmists consider carbon, which is the chemical basis for all life on earth, a greenhouse gas. In a sense, Obama was trying to regulate life itself and indeed the entire physical world when he claimed that the government could regulate greenhouse gases under an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) endangerment finding and the Clean Air Act. It is absolutely impossible, practically speaking, to regulate greenhouse gases, nor is it even desirable to do so. That is one major piece of nonsense the Trump administration is now axing.
Responding to an article from the New York Post about the Obama-era greenhouse gas regulations, and how Trump was about to end them, the president simply commented, “Done!” The Post noted in the article that the regulations cost us trillions of dollars, meaning that by trashing them, Trump is saving vast amounts of money. The biggest effect of the Democrat regulation, on which Joe Biden doubled down, was for automobiles, heaping onerous rules on gas powered cars while promoting inefficient and expensive electric vehicles.
But the new Trump administration actions focus on helping instead of hurting consumers. To begin with, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin excitedly posted on X April 6, “Today, the Trump EPA has finalized our deregulatory decision on OOOOb/c (no CNN, that’s not a typo), fixing Biden-era oil and natural gas regulations. Today’s action is estimated to save $2.5 billion, which will help lower gasoline and energy costs across the board to benefit American families.”
