Month: August 2026

The EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, Rescinds the Obama-Era Endangerment Finding

 At Last! Hoorah!

Robert W. Endlich

INTRODUCTION

On 15 December 2009, during the Obama Administration, the EPA issued, in Volume 4 of the Federal Register, on page 66518, a rule, based on Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act, stating that human greenhouse gas emissions of CO2 caused environmental and human endangerment.

Jetliner landing at San Diego’s Lindbergh Field in late afternoon. On 8 April 2026 EPA Administrator Lee Zelden described his Agency’s 2026 repeal of the 2009 Endangerment Finding as reversing “decades of unthinking adherence to liberal politicians and environmental groups about the dangers of climate change.”

In the years since, various individuals and organizations have published posts and articles attempting to persuade authorities to undo this rule. Here are some of their attempts:

The Heartland Institute has these posts on this topic.

A group of authors with Dr. James P. Wallace III as lead author posted this article “On the Existence of a ‘Tropical Hot Spot and The Validity of EPA’s CO2 Endangerment Finding.’” They also published on uncorrupted Temperature Records containing natural cycles, and “A Critical Look at Surface Temperature Records.”

In Testimony before the House of Representatives in 2017, Dr John Christy of the University of Alabama Huntsville showed that despite the EPA’s 2009 claims of veracity of computer models, he showed that computer models of Continue reading “The EPA Administrator, Lee Zeldin, Rescinds the Obama-Era Endangerment Finding”