The article critiques the current administration's approach to climate change, particularly through appointments like Lee Zeldin to the EPA. It highlights how the Trump administration's potential repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding would obstruct significant pollution regulations established under the Clean Air Act. This move, which has legal and political ramifications, is portrayed as part of a broader trend of dismissing scientific consensus on climate issues. The author emphasizes the inevitability of nature's response, independent of political debates.
"The endangerment finding has sparked legal and political battles in Washington for more than 15 years. In 2007, the Supreme Court issued a landmark ruling that the EPA has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide, methane and other greenhouse gases as pollutants under the Clean Air Act."
"By repealing the endangerment finding, the Trump administration would be taking one of its most consequential steps yet to derail federal climate efforts."
"Occasionally, we try to remind people like Zeldin that nature doesn't give a damn if you win an election... Science doesn't give a damn if you win every argument on the pundit shows forever."
"The Obama and Biden administrations used that determination to set strict limits on emissions from cars and power plants. The endangerment finding cleared the way for regulating greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act by concluding that the planet-warming gases pose a threat to public health and welfare."
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