Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin on Monday announced the agency’s proposal to repeal the 2009 Endangerment Finding, a regulatory foundation that has enabled over $1 trillion in emissions-related rules—including the Biden-Harris Administration’s electric vehicle mandate.
If finalized, the proposal would eliminate all greenhouse gas emissions regulations on motor vehicles and engines stemming from the 2009 finding. The rollback would restore consumer choice in the auto market and, according to the agency, lower the cost of living by reducing transportation-related expenses across the economy.
“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” Zeldin said. “Many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year.”
Zeldin also argued the greenhouse gas standards themselves—rather than carbon dioxide, which he said was never independently assessed by the original finding—have become a direct threat to livelihoods. Ending the rule, he claimed, could remove more than $1 trillion in hidden costs from the U.S. economy.
