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"Most people would agree that characterising the Trump Presidency as
consequential, eventful, or chaotic would be an understatement. Not a day
passes without a new announcement, an unexpected policy or a reversal of the
prior day’s decisions – frequently with little warning, explanation or reason.
What transpired in mid-February 2026, however, is likely to be among the most
consequential shifts in the annals of the American energy and environmental
regulation or – in this case – deregulation.
A day after a White House ceremony to promote “clean, beautiful coal” attended
by the Christ Wright, the US Energy Secretary, the president was joined by Lee
Zeldin, his equally zealous administrator of the Environmental Protection
Agency (EPA), to announce the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era endangerment
finding.
It represents a significant escalation in the administration’s relentless fight
against green energy and its persistent denial of climate change.
The decision was presented as just one more effort to make energy more
affordable for everyday Americans by repealing virtually all regulations on
harmful greenhouse gas emissions from cars, trucks, power plants and polluting
industries.
The administration’s critics, there are quite a few of them, said it is one of
the most irresponsible – and illegal – decisions made by this administration.
Most likely it won’t be the last.
Unless the move is challenged and reversed, it will essentially be the end of
the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), whose original mission was to
protect human health and welfare by regulating harmful pollutants – including
greenhouse gases – which were found to be harmful by the US Supreme Court in
earlier and, shall we say, more normal times.
It is highly unusual for a government agency to essentially put itself out of
business, but not anymore. As one cynical subscriber suggested, the EPA can now
be renamed as the environmental pollution agency, keeping its acronym but no
longer its original mission."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
