Christian Applauds President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin’s Rollback of Obama-era Greenhouse Gas Ruling

Today, the Trump Administration and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency will reverse the 2009 ill-named ‘endangerment finding’, which made greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide (CO₂), pollutants subject to agency regulation.

This finding provided the legal framework to regulate CO₂ and enabled the Net Zero movement to gain traction both in the United States and worldwide. Following EPA Administrator Zeldin’s actions, Texas Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian said the following:

“President Trump promised Americans he’d scrap Net Zero, the ‘Green New Scam,’ and other radical environmental policies that stifle American fossil fuel production and inhibit his mission to re-establish American Energy Dominance. The Net Zero agenda is a fantasy built on a house of cards, and EPA Administrator Zeldin’s reconsideration of the ‘endangerment finding’ will knock it down.

Because America reduced EPA’s six major regulated pollutants by 77 percent over the last half century, the radical environmental movement had to invent CO₂ as a pollutant – creating a boogeyman – to justify their continued war on fossil fuels. U.S. CO₂ emissions have already declined by 20 percent over the past two decades and our oil production is 23 percent cleaner than the global average. Meanwhile, large fossil fuel producing nations like China and Russia continue to emit with impunity. 

At the end of the day, CO₂ is a plant food needed for all human life to flourish and is an important fact that environmentalists love to omit to the public conversion. I applaud President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin in their effort to challenge climate catastrophists and put America’s reliable energy producers first.”