CFACT researched it, CFACT advocated for it, and now it’s happening.

EPA announced that it is ending its disastrous “endangerment finding.”

The Wall Street Journal declared it “liberation day from climate imperialism.”

CFACT’s Marc Morano said, “by removing the CO2 endangerment finding from our lives, it removes the basis for all of the climate nonsense that we’ve had to endure for the last several decades. Everything from gas-powered appliance bans, gas-powered car bans, to restrictions on agricultural, meat, power plants, travel, ceiling fans, pizza ovens, energy mandates, subsidies, and thermostat controls.”

The “endangerment finding” is a glaring bit of regulatory overreach, whereby EPA sought to force climate policy that had no hope of passing Congress. The Clean Air Act does not grant EPA the power. Climate campaigners tried various ways to bypass Congress via lawsuits and eventually bare-knuckle bureaucratic rulemaking.

As EPA explains in its official release (read it at CFACT.org):

The Endangerment Finding is the legal prerequisite used by the Obama and Biden Administrations to regulate emissions from new motor vehicles and new motor vehicle engines. Absent this finding, EPA would lack statutory authority under Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act (CAA) to prescribe standards for greenhouse gas emissions. This proposal, if finalized, is expected to save Americans $54 billion in costs annually through the repeal of all greenhouse gas standards, including the Biden EPA’s electric vehicle mandate, under conservative economic forecasts.

If finalized, this proposal would remove all greenhouse gas standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines, starting with EPA’s first greenhouse gas set in 2010 for light-duty vehicles and those set in 2011 for medium-duty vehicles and heavy-duty vehicles and engines—which includes off-cycle credits like the much hated start-stop feature on most new cars.

Marc Morano reports that the Administration’s current approach stands to grant us permanent relief from the horrific burdens of heavy-handed climate and energy regulation.  Let’s hope he’s right.

CO2, the invisible, odorless gas you just exhaled, is not a pollutant. It is certainly not what Congress intended when it enacted the Clean Air Act.