WHAT THEY ARE SAYING: Leaders Praise the EPA for Launching Largest Deregulatory Action in U.S. History with Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding

Earlier this week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regulations, including the Biden-Harris Administration’s electric vehicle mandate. If finalized, the proposal would repeal all greenhouse gas standards for light-, medium- and heavy-duty vehicles and heavy-duty engines, thereby reinstating consumer choice while decreasing the cost of living on all products that trucks deliver. It would also mark one of the largest deregulatory actions in American history.  

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.    

Here’s what people are saying: 

Cabinet Members & Administration Officials 
U.S. Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright: “Thanks to President Trump’s leadership, America is returning to free and open dialogue around climate and energy policy - driving the focus back to following the data. Today’s announcement is a monumental step toward returning to commonsense policies that expand access to affordable, reliable, secure energy and improve quality of life for all Americans.” 

U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum: “Big win for American Energy Dominance! EPA’s decision to pull back the Obama administration’s overreaching green energy mandates restores common sense so we can better protect our environment and unleash American energy to meet the needs of families, businesses and allies.” 

Small Business Administration Administrator Kelly Loeffler: “Thanks to President Trump, the Obama-Biden green new scam era is finally coming to an end. EPA’s reconsideration of the endangerment finding will eliminate burdensome regulations and save small businesses at least $170 billion. I’m excited to work alongside Administrator Zeldin to cut red tape and unleash President Trump’s new golden age for Main Street.”

White House Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought: “EPA’s regulation of the climate affects the entire national economy—jobs, wages and family budgets. It’s long overdue to look at the impacts on our people of the underlying Obama endangerment finding.”

Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator Jeff Clark: “Since 2009, I’ve consistently argued that the endangerment finding required a consideration of downstream costs imposed on both mobile sources like cars and stationary sources like factories. Under the enlightened leadership of President Trump and Administrator Zeldin, the time for fresh thought has finally arrived.” 

Congress 
Senate Environment and Public Works Committee Chairman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV): “I applaud EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for leading this effort to end damaging and illegal regulations like the attempted EV mandate. The Clean Air Act has been weaponized by Democrat administrations for years, and this action takes initiative to prevent regulations that limit affordability, energy security, and consumer choice across our country.” 

House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Brett Guthrie (R-KY-02): “During the Obama-Biden and Biden-Harris Administrations, one-size-fits-all regulations were weaponized to create an EV mandate that limited consumer choice and increased costs for American businesses and consumers... No country has reduced its emissions more than the United States over the course of the 21st century. That accomplishment came from innovation and investments, not federal mandates. Today’s decision by the EPA to reconsider impractical and unworkable vehicle standards is a victory for American families who want to choose the car or truck that is right for them—not what’s mandated by Washington bureaucrats.” 

House Science, Space, and Technology Committee Chairman Brian Babin (R-TX-36): “President Trump and Administrator Zeldin are making good on their promise to bring jobs back and restore common sense. For too long, an unelected bureaucracy—backed by special interests—used the courts to impose climate regulations Congress never authorized. Obama’s 2009 finding opened the door to Biden-era mandates like the looming EV rule, which would crush consumer choice in 2027. Today’s proposal stops that train, paves the way for new jobs and lower costs, and puts this debate back where it belongs—with the American people and their representatives in Congress. This isn’t about rejecting environmental stewardship; it’s about rejecting costly, ineffective mandates that threaten jobs while China and India continue to drive emissions without consequence. America leads the world in clean energy innovation because of free markets, not heavy-handed mandates that undermine the financial security of workers and families. I applaud this announcement and will continue working to ensure the Science, Space, and Technology Committee keeps fighting for policies that prioritize innovation and American leadership without destroying our economy.” 

Senator Tom Cotton (R-AK): “Another great step in unwinding the Democrats’ radical climate agenda. Thank you Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Trump!” 

Senator Kevin Cramer (R-ND): “EPA  Administrator Zeldin and President Trump certainly got this one right. They listened to the voice of reason and they clarified the role of the endangerment finding in our energy and environmental policy. Congress, the voters, and the Supreme Court certainly have all repeatedly weighed in and rejected the heavy-handed, command and control approach that the Obama and Biden administrations mandated when they relied upon this flawed endangerment finding and they used it to upend American energy. Power plants in the United States are really only responsible for a very small and a declining percentage of global greenhouse gas concentrations. Their contribution, frankly, is dwarfed by the emissions from large polluting countries like China and India where they are building new power plants at a very rapid pace. And by the way, their power plants don’t have the technology that actually reduces greenhouse gas emissions like we do. Increasing energy costs, decreasing grid reliability, and kneecapping economic competitiveness is really the real danger here that we have to avoid. Thanks again to Administrator Zeldin and President Trump for recognizing America’s energy excellence. I encourage North Dakotans and Americans, but I really want North Dakotans to make their voices heard throughout the public comment period as they draft new rules.”

Senator Cynthia Lummis (R-WY): “The era of weaponizing environmental policy against American workers is over. President Trump and Administrator Zeldin chose prosperity and common sense over the climate cult’s radical agenda. Wyoming energy is a vital resource, not an emission to be regulated out of existence by DC bureaucrats.” 

Senator Markwayne Mullin (R-OK): “The Trump EPA, led by Administrator Zeldin, is taking a sledgehammer to Obama-era regulations. Love to see it.” 

Senator Bernie Moreno (R-OH): “Administer Lee Zeldin [is] making cars great again!”

Senator Jim Risch (R-ID): “Commonsense is back! Administrator Zeldin is cutting through red tape, saving taxpayer dollars, and protecting our environment!” 

House Western Caucus Chairman Doug LaMalfa (R-CA-01): “This is long overdue. CO₂ is not a pollutant, it’s a basic building block of life. Plants can’t survive without it, and the 0.04% we are currently at is nowhere near a threat to the planet. The Earth has seen far higher CO₂ levels long before the invention of the SUV. The 2009 Endangerment Finding twisted the law to give unelected bureaucrats the power to dictate lifestyles, driving up costs and force working Americans into electric vehicles they don’t want and can’t afford. This repeal puts the brakes on that nonsense and gets us back to real-world thinking. I applaud President Trump and Administrator Zeldin for putting the American people’s choices back in the driver’s seat.” 

Republic Study Committee House Energy Action Team Chairman Troy Balderson (R-OH-12): “I applaud EPA Administrator Zeldin’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding. The Obama-Biden and Biden-Harris administrations weaponized this finding to finalize burdensome, market-distorting regulations which raised manufacturing and consumer prices and threatened reliable transportation methods for consumers. Thanks to President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin, we are returning consumer choice to the American people and American competitiveness to the global economy.”  

Republic Study Committee House Energy Action Team Vice Chairman Randy Weber (R-TX-14): “No other nation has come close to the United States’ emissions reductions. It’s about time our policies recognized this leadership and removed bureaucratic barriers to future innovation and American global dominance. This announcement is an important step towards the return of commonsense policies to deliver on promises made to unshackle American innovation, ensure energy reliability, and lower costs for American families. I thank President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin for unleashing American energy, lowering costs for Americans, and returning power to consumers.” 

Representative Jim Baird (R-IN-04): “Thanks to the outstanding work of President Trump, Administrator Zeldin, and Secretary Wright, the Environmental Protection Agency and Department of Energy are ending costly, sweeping vehicle emissions standards and ending the authoritarian EV mandates. Once again, this administration is standing up for common sense and our great American automakers and consumers. I thank Administrator Zeldin and Secretary Wright for their historic action to unleash American innovation, implement sound energy policies, and lower costs for American families.” 

Representative Beth Van Duyne (R-TX-24): “This is another massive win for growth, opportunity, and prosperity in America. Administrator Zeldin is unleashing our economy and businesses from the job killing shackles of radical burdensome regulations.”

Representative Harriet Hageman (R-WY-AL): “We can be champions of abundance or lords of scarcity, and today’s deregulatory actions mark a historic step toward reigniting domestic energy production, lowering costs, and ending energy poverty. The EPA’s decision to formally reconsider the endangerment finding is based on good science, and we must fully remove the endangerment finding’s harmful influence to provide relief to industries and consumers while securing a rational, commonsense-based policy framework for the future.”

Representative Mark Messmer (R-IN-08): “The Endangerment Finding has long been a Democrat tool to issue burdensome regulations that ignore commonsense science in pursuit of radical Green New Deal aligned agendas. I applaud Secretary Wright, Director Zeldin and the entire Trump Administration for making sure we cut the red tape that is unnecessarily impeding American business, while also preserving our nation’s precious natural resources.”

Representative Rudy Yakym (R-IN-02): “Thank you, Administrator Zeldin for bringing common sense back!”

State Leaders 
Indiana Governor Mike Braun: “The Obama-Biden EPA used regulations as a political tool and hurt American competitiveness without results to show for it. Today’s announcement is a win for consumer choice, common sense, and American energy independence. President Trump, Secretary Wright, and Administrator Zeldin are returning the EPA to its proper role, and I’m proud they chose Indiana as the place to make this announcement because our state is proof, we can protect our environment and support American jobs.” 

West Virginia Governor Patrick Morrissey: “I applaud the EPA’s plan to rescind the ‘endangerment finding,’ which was used by the Obama and Biden administrations to strangle West Virginia’s economy and make America less competitive internationally. The ‘endangerment finding; represents quintessential federal overreach and was never borne out by the law. President Trump and Administrator Zeldin are reining in this overreach so states such as West Virginia can unleash American energy and compete successfully against China.”  

Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita: “Over the last four years, conservative state attorneys general were the last line of defense in fighting back against the Biden administration’s federal overreach and green new scam agenda. However, thanks to President Trump and patriots like Administrator Zeldin and Secretary Wright, we are now on the front lines helping to unleash American energy.” 

Texas Railroad Commissioner Wayne Christian: “President Trump promised Americans he’d scrap Net Zero, the ‘Green New Scam,’ and other radical environmental policies that stifle American fossil fuel production and inhibit his mission to re-establish American Energy Dominance. The Net Zero agenda is a fantasy built on a house of cards, and EPA Administrator Zeldin’s reconsideration of the ‘endangerment finding’ will knock it down. Because America reduced EPA’s six major regulated pollutants by 77 percent over the last half century, the radical environmental movement had to invent CO₂ as a pollutant – creating a boogeyman – to justify their continued war on fossil fuels. U.S. CO₂ emissions have already declined by 20 percent over the past two decades and our oil production is 23 percent cleaner than the global average. Meanwhile, large fossil fuel producing nations like China and Russia continue to emit with impunity.” 

West Virginia Attorney General John McCuskey: “For years, the energy markets of this county have been dictated by radical environmentalists using caustic language, unsubstantiated by science. This is the reason we find ourselves with outrageous energy costs for consumers and scrambling to re-establish American energy dominance around the world. We are incredibly proud to partner with President Trump, the new EPA and Administrator Zeldin to undo decades of bad policy and establish a new era of American prosperity.” 

Stakeholders 
America First Policy Institute Center for American Freedom Executive Vice President and Chair David Bernhart: “Under the decisive leadership of President Trump and Administrator Zeldin, the Left’s bureaucratic overreach is finally being rolled back. The effort to dismantle the Obama-era Endangerment Finding, a cornerstone of the radical climate agenda, has advanced. For over a decade, it has been the lynchpin for $1 trillion in crushing greenhouse gas regulations that have been weaponized against the American public. Unelected bureaucrats have imposed top-down mandates on light, medium and heavy-duty on-highway vehicles, harming consumers, small businesses, and rural communities. If finalized, this proposal would strike at the heart of the regulatory regime. It will deliver more than $54 billion in savings annually, gutting costly mandates. This is a victory for American jobs and will reclaim our economy from the grip of bureaucracy and regulation. America is on offense.” 

The American Consumer Institute (ACI) Energy Analyst Kristen Walker: “I applaud EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for taking this significant step in rolling back egregious and burdensome regulations. Revisiting the Endangerment Finding is essential in determining whether EPA has statutory authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions on vehicles. Consumers deserve choice and affordability when buying cars and should not be hamstrung by bureaucrats in D.C. who restrict their options and hurt their pocketbooks.” 

American Energy Alliance President Tom Pyle: “[The 2009 Endangerment Finding] has reshaped investment and infrastructure to our country’s detriment and has been used as a vehicle to push a political agenda.”  

American Energy Institute CEO Jason Isaac: “The American Energy Institute applauds the EPA’s decision to rescind the scientifically flawed and economically destructive Endangerment Finding. For nearly two decades, this regulatory overreach has been weaponized to restrict America’s most reliable and affordable energy sources—despite no public health benefit. The United States has become a global leader in environmental quality, reducing air pollution by nearly 80% and delivering clean, safe drinking water to more citizens than any nation on Earth—not because of overburdensome carbon dioxide regulations, but because of innovation powered by affordable, reliable energy. By reversing this misguided policy, the EPA is restoring regulatory integrity, honoring Supreme Court precedent, and unleashing American energy to drive prosperity at home and around the world.” 

American Lands Council Chairman Myron Ebell: “It’s a great day for America, and President Trump deserves the credit. Repealing the endangerment finding will free the economy from the Biden administration’s energy-rationing regulations that raise prices and limit consumer choice.” 

American Petroleum Institute President and CEO Mike Sommers: “We support Administrator Zeldin’s proposal to repeal the Biden administration’s costly and unrealistic tailpipe rules, which would have effectively banned new gas-powered vehicles. This is a critical step toward restoring consumer choice and protecting the freedom of all Americans to decide what they drive. We look forward to working with the administration on policies that help reduce emissions while ensuring reliable and affordable transportation options for consumers.” 

American Trucking Association President and CEO Chris Spear: “We commend President Trump and EPA Administrator Zeldin for taking decisive action to rescind the disastrous GHG Phase 3 rule. This electric-truck mandate put the trucking industry on a path to economic ruin and would have crippled our supply chain, disrupted deliveries, and raised prices for American families and businesses. Moreover, it kicked innovation to the curb by discarding available technologies that can further drive down emissions at a fraction of the cost. For four decades, our industry has proven that we are committed to reducing emissions. The trucking industry supports cleaner, more efficient technologies, but we need policies rooted in real-world conditions. We thank the Trump Administration for returning us to a path of common sense, so that we can keep delivering for the American people as we continue to reduce our environmental impact.” 

Clean Freight Coalition Executive Director Jim Mullen: “We thank President Trump and Administrator Zeldin for taking this critical step to rescind the ill-advised Greenhouse Gas Phase 3 rule. The CFC members have consistently opposed this unattainable rule as it would cause tremendous harm to the trucking industry, jeopardize the supply chain and result in higher prices for goods across our country. We are grateful that the Administration has charted the path to course correct the actions of the previous Administration. The CFC supports all feasible and sustainable technologies that effectively reduce trucking emissions. The rescission of GHG Phase 3 will assist in the allocation of resources to promote the advancement and proliferation of alternative fuel sources for heavy trucks, the workhorse of our nation’s freight network.” 

Competitive Enterprise Institute Center of Energy and Environment Director and Senior Fellow Daren Bakst: “Today is the first step in protecting Americans from bureaucrats who think they should decide what kind of cars we can drive. To those bureaucrats and their allies, it doesn’t matter if their central planning increases car prices, undermines individual freedom, limits our ability to get around, or disproportionately hurts the poor. The effect of EPA’s proposed rule is a rejection of the far-left mindset that believes addressing climate change requires sacrificing human flourishing and blocking economic development. By embracing policies that empower human flourishing and innovation, we will both improve our lives today and ensure an even brighter future. We need to place faith in humanity, not see it as the enemy. After all, humans are the ultimate resource. The proposed rule is an action being made to ensure that the EPA acts consistently with the rule of law. For example, the agency is recognizing critical legal developments that demonstrate it doesn’t have authority to regulate these emissions. One such major legal development is a case called West Virginia v. EPA in 2022 that fleshed out what is known as the major questions doctrine. The Supreme Court said that when an agency seeks to answer questions of vast economic and political significance, the agency must point to clear Congressional authorization. There is no such authorization. In fact, Congress has regularly rejected regulating greenhouse gas emissions.” 

Competitive Enterprise Institute Senior Fellow Lewis, Jr: “Under Presidents Obama and Biden, the EPA’s 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding became a pretext for the agency, without congressional authorization, to impose centralized economic planning on the US transportation and electric power sectors, and for multi-agency (“whole-of-government”) regulatory assaults on domestic energy resources with which America is abundantly endowed. That agenda makes cars and electricity more costly for consumers, restricts consumer choices, and makes America more reliant on China for critical minerals and supply chains.  When enacting the Clean Air Act, Congress intended for the EPA to ‘protect and enhance the quality of the Nation’s air resources so as to promote the public health and welfare and the productive capacity of its population’. CEI congratulates Administrator Zeldin for taking a bold step today to return the agency to that core mission. Repealing the endangerment finding clears the path for a new era of American prosperity... That great news, which the endangerment finding completely overlooked, has nothing to do with emissions or changes in the weather and everything to do with the wealth creation and technological innovation supported by humanity’s development and use of abundant, affordable energy resources. By removing regulatory risks to innovation and investment, repeal of the endangerment finding should help foster a more climate-resilient economy.”

CO2 Coalition Executive Director Gregory Wrightstone: “For more than 30 years, carbon dioxide has been demonized as a dangerous pollutant by a cabal of special interests who pursued political science instead of true science. Over the past decade, the CO2 Coalition has rebutted this narrative by educating the public about the beneficial role of the gas in nature and by insisting on rigorous scientific inquiry in deciding such matters. EPA’s proposal today to rescind the regulation of CO2 for vehicles validates our efforts and those of thousands of scientists and others who stood for the truth. We expect this and other regulatory reforms to end foolish public policy that has wastefully diverted trillions of dollars toward a manufactured climate emergency and away from work that could have otherwise benefited people.” 

Democracy Restored Director Houston Keene: “Arguably the biggest consequence of the EPA’s decision to reverse the Endangerment Finding is the financial loss it will deliver to grifting contractors, partisan ‘academics,’ and the profiteering climate lobby. As we exposed back in April, the poster child for this abuse of the public trust and scientific integrity is government contractor ICF. The contractor responsible for authoring the government’s last few doom and gloom climate assessments and then selling the same ‘modeling’ services to dozens of other government and private sector entities saw its bottom line spike by over 814% from the time the endangerment finding was released under President Obama until the second Trump administration was elected to office. This story is not unique but tells you all you need to know about the climate lobby’s eternal quest to milk the federal government for as many taxpayer dollars as possible.” 

Former EPA Chief of Staff Mandy Gunasekara: “Dismantling the Endangerment Finding removes the foundation of which the Green New Scam was built. The Endangerment Finding has been used by democrats to re-engineer the economy, sell out U.S. jobs to high polluting countries like China, and burden American families with expensive energy, cars, and goods. This ends today.  President Trump promised to make life in our country more affordable again and allow our great American industries to thrive. Administrator Zeldin’s proposed action to rescind the Finding has cleared the way. Now the EPA can prioritize real solutions for health and the environment and President Trump can continue to get our economy back on track.” 

Functional Government Initiative Communications Director Roderick Law: “The 2009 Endangerment Finding empowered years of climate alarmism starting during the Obama administration and accelerating under the Biden administration. It resulted in hundreds of billions of wasteful spending in the name of climate change, lining the pockets of environmentalist special interest groups and the green climate industry.” 

Heartland Institute President James Taylor: “Carbon dioxide clearly does not endanger public health and welfare. Carbon dioxide is essential to life on Earth. Plant and food production increases with more carbon dioxide. None of the alarmists’ climate predictions have come true, but modest warming has brought tremendous benefits. President Trump is doing the right thing for the economy, the environment, and the American people by reversing the unjustifiable Endangerment Finding.” 

Heartland Institute Senior Fellow Anthony Watts: “The only real impact of the Endangerment Finding has been higher costs for American families and businesses, along with needless bureaucratic complexity. Environmental policies should be based on hard evidence and genuine results, not speculation and political agendas. The EPA’s move signals a needed shift back to fact-based decision making. It doesn’t mean we abandon environmental care. It means we stop pretending that costly regulations here can control a global issue, especially while the world’s biggest emitter ignores them. This is a step forward for transparency, reason, and affordable energy.” 

Heartland Institute Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy Director H. Sterling Burnett, Ph.D.: “The Trump administration’s action in rescinding the Endangerment Finding rights a great wrong. The Supreme Court was wrong to label carbon dioxide a regulable pollutant, because it is critical to life on earth, not toxic at any foreseeable level, and Congress did not declare it such in the Clean Air Act. This was legislation from the bench and President Obama took that opening and ran with it, giving a single regulatory agency the power to control the economy without any check.  Trump’s EPA action puts the power back where it belongs, in Congress. Carbon dioxide poses no threat to human health or welfare, not even indirectly due to long-term climate change, since hard data does not reveal, modest global warming is making weather more extreme.” 

Heartland Institute Arthur B. Robinson Center on Climate and Environmental Policy Research Fellow Linnea Lueken: “The obsession over a trace gas is absurd, antiscientific, and has led to pain for Americans in the form of higher energy bills, overregulation of appliances, agriculture, and more. Basically, the Endangerment Finding gave unaccountable government agencies the ability to have a say over whatever they wanted, since every human activity results in the production of carbon dioxide. It never should have happened. The government should never have tried regulating a gas essential for life in the first place.”

The Heritage Foundation Center for Energy, Climate and Environment Director Diana Furchtgott-Roth: “I applaud Administrator Zeldin for taking bold action to reconsider the 2009 Endangerment Finding. In 2025 more is known about the science behind climate change, and it’s high time to take another look at the data. The Endangerment Finding, largely based upon outdated research from 2007, underpins a broad array of EPA regulations under the Clean Air Act. These include auto emissions regulations and the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, later overturned by the Supreme Court. EPA regulations have contributed to an increase in car prices, which are now almost $50,000 for a new car, up from $23,000 in 2009. It’s remarkable that the same people who decry the work of this administration are also the ones defending antiquated science. I’m glad to see Lee Zeldin taking action to bring the EPA into the 21st century.”  

Independent Women’s Forum Center for Energy and Conservation Director Gabriella Hoffman: “The Trump Administration, via Administrator Zeldin and Secretary Wright, continue to phase out climate alarmism from their agencies in exchange for science. That is clear in their endangerment finding announcement.”  

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton: “The Climate Scam is the biggest fraud in the history of the world. Thanks, Administrator Zeldin and President Trump!”  

Multiple-Use Advocacy Principal Kathleen Sgamma: “After a decade and a half of misguided regulation stemming from the 2009 Endangerment Finding with trillions of dollars of cost and virtually no environmental benefit, I applaud EPA’s bold action to rescind the finding in a deliberative way that comports with the Clean Air Act. I encourage the energy industry and many others to support EPA by providing thoughtful comments. Oil and natural gas companies do not need economy-crushing regulations to do the right thing and will continue their decades of success reducing methane emissions.” 

The National Automobile Dealers Association (NADA) President Mike Stanton: “NADA and its member dealers thank President Donald Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for recognizing the need to reverse the previous administration’s EV mandates and GHG rules. These policies would raise the prices of cars and trucks, reduce consumer choice, and limit fleet turnover. We look forward to stocking and selling safe, affordable, and reliable cars and trucks that customers want that meet their budget.” 

Protect the Public’s Trust Director Michael Chamberlain: “The Endangerment Finding represents the epitome in government overreach - giving the feds carte blanche to regulate virtually every item and activity in Americans’ daily lives. Rolling it back is also crucial to restoring scientific integrity and the democratic rule of law to the government. According to emails at the time it was implemented, in the early days of the Obama administration, EPA officials appeared to be already planning to implement their power-grab before all the data had been collected and interpreted. The scientific process starts with a hypothesis, not with a scheme to expand one’s bureaucratic fiefdom. If the finding was compromised, every action from the EPA and other government agencies that were based on it is also compromised.” 

Republican Jewish Coalition: “The largest deregulation effort EVER in American history. Thank you, President Trump and Administrator Zeldin.” 

Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA) Director of Communications Matt Daigle: “For years, we’ve witnessed firsthand the damage inflicted by the so-called ‘endangerment’ finding of 2009, including its brazen use by the EPA under previous administrations and by California to mandate the sale of electric vehicles (EVs) and ban the sale of internal combustion engine (ICE) vehicles. ICE vehicles remain the bedrock upon which the American people – families, small businesses, and automotive enthusiasts – rely to live their best, most prosperous lives, and to ban them is an affront to the American way of life. SEMA thanks Administrator Zeldin and the Trump Administration for pursuing common-sense reforms that prioritize the American people and our nation’s economy. This announcement marks a significant policy shift that preserves vehicle choice and strikes a blow to the coordinated, nationwide efforts of unelected activist policymakers and environmental groups to dictate the kinds of vehicles Americans can drive.”