Environmental Protection Agency administrator Lee Zeldin announced last week that he would do so. Rethinking the Environmental Protection Agency’s 2009 “Danger Discovery” – Following President Trump’s first day Presidential Order Instructing the federal government to “unleash American energy” may be the most important thing coming out of the Trump administration.
“Today is the biggest day of deregulation that our country has seen,” Zeldin said, making his announcement. “We drive our daggers straight at the heart of climate change religion.”
He’s right. The 2009 discovery of danger by then-EPA administrator Lisa Jackson was the basis for the current US greenhouse gas environmental regulations. According to Jackson’s discovery“The six greenhouse gases collected in combination risk both public health and public welfare for current and future generations,” and furthermore, “the combined emissions of these greenhouse gases from new cars and new car engines contribute to greenhouse gas air pollution, which puts public health and welfare at risk under the Clean Air Act.”
The risk discoveries of all sorts of regulations issued over the past 16 years, say, “has a total cost of,” according to Zeldin, for example. Over 1 trillion dollarsaccording to figures from the EPA’s own regulatory impact analysis. ” For example, based on the 2009 discoveries, the 2015 EPA. Issuance criteria to limit carbon pollution From new fossils and existing fossil fuel-fired power plants, 2024 Issuance criteria to limit carbon pollution From the vehicle’s tailpipe.
Government officials practice in the art of power-wielding, knowing that there is no need to actually suppress private sector actors and change their behavior. A bureaucratic version of “A lovely company out there, if that happens it’s a shame” is enough. When it comes to this kind of subtle power wheeled, EPA officials are past masters.
For example, new tailpipe emission standards It was released last year Don’t ban the sale of gas-powered cars and trucks entirely by the EPA. Instead, the new rules “will increase the limit on the amount of pollution allowed from tailpipes over time, so it is likely that more than half of new cars sold in the US by 2032 will be zero-emission vehicles for the automaker to meet the standards.” In other words, the EPA did not ban gas-powered cars entirely. Instead, gas-powered cars have set increasingly difficult tailpipe emission standards for meeting, and automotive manufacturing executives have come to their own conclusions about the required configuration of the vehicle inventory they have sold.
Naturally, just as we have seen Washington bureaucrats gain more and more power through regulations, automakers are increasingly taking clue from the market, increasingly from decisions made by Washington bureaucrats, and specifically from EPA bureaucrats. Therefore, automakers reconfigure their inventory to meet the “demand” from Washington, rather than the actual demand from the market. General Motors is no wonder It remains “everything” for EV productiondespite the fact that the company loses money on every electric vehicle it sells.
(And this is the question of an EPA bureaucrat. How much does a car cost today, as Detroit doesn’t make the car we wanted to do in the first place? General Motors isn’t making enough of the car people want.
The decision to look at Zeldin’s dangers again is a big deal. Discovering the dangers, and rethinking and ultimately overturning all the burdensome regulations that flow from it, could do more to unlock the lock on the American economy than enacting a massive tax cut. It’s like being able to create a presidency.
Importantly, it’s not just the lifting of regulatory burdens that are crucial to the success of Trump’s agenda. Overturning the discovery of danger not only unleashes the economy, it also corrects the mistakes made by the Obama administration when it restored the rule of law and used dangerous discoveries to bypass Congress and enact an anti-Fossil fuel agenda via regulations on behalf of Congress. (After all, achieving policy agenda items through regulation is much easier than manipulating legislation through two chambers consisting of hundreds of political actors, each with their own constituency that must be taken into consideration.)
Furthermore, overturning the discovery of danger will cause the power of environmental regulation to move from the federal government to the state government to which it belongs.
Returning power and authority to the state so that they can make further decisions on environmental issues would encourage competition. It promotes innovation, increases consumer choice, which encourages investment. All Americans will benefit from it.
President Trump often chose Zeldin when he chose Zeldin to implement Trump’s agenda at the Environmental Protection Agency. Zeldin’s aggressive implementation of Trump’s first day executive order could unleash the American economy. We look forward to the success of their combination in this important aspect.
Jenny Beth Martin is Honorary Chairman of Tea Party Patriot Action
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