In a move described by the White House as the &#8220;single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history,&#8221; EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and President Trump have <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/president-trump-and-administrator-zeldin-deliver-single-largest-deregulatory-action-us">finalized a rule</a> to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding. The decision effectively eliminates all federal greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for motor vehicles and engines.
The Trump administration projects that this reversal will <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/what-they-are-saying-leaders-and-americans-across-country-applaud-single-largest-act?utm_source=chatgpt.com">save Americans</a> more than $1.3 trillion in regulatory costs. According to the EPA, the action will:
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Eliminate future obligations for manufacturers to measure, control, or report GHG emissions for highway vehicles.
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Apply retroactively, covering model years manufactured prior to the final rule.
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Lower vehicle prices by an estimated average of $2,400 per vehicle.
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Restore consumer choice by removing &#8220;de facto&#8221; electric vehicle mandates.
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Officials clarified that this action applies strictly to greenhouse gases and does not impact existing regulations on traditional air pollutants like smog or soot.
The EPA’s new determination rests on a reevaluation of<a href="https://cdxapps.epa.gov/oms-substance-registry-services/substance-list-details/144"> Section 202(a) of the Clean Air Act</a>. Administrator Zeldin concluded that Congress never intended for the Act to grant the EPA authority to manage global climate change. The agency further argued that its previous regulations were &#8220;futile,&#8221; asserting they had no material impact on global temperature trends.
The <a href="https://www.epa.gov/climate-change/endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a">2009 finding</a>, established during the Obama administration, served as the legal bedrock for the EPA’s authority to regulate GHGs under the Clean Air Act. By determining that carbon dioxide and other GHGs endangered public health, the agency previously mandated strict emission limits that pushed the auto industry toward electrification.
&#8220;The Endangerment Finding was a disastrous policy that damaged the American auto industry,&#8221; President Trump stated during the announcement in the Roosevelt Room. &#8220;We are bringing car prices tumbling down by eliminating this red tape.&#8221;
The move drew immediate praise from Republican lawmakers and industry groups. Senate Environment and Public Works Chairman Shelley Moore Capito (R-WV) called it a &#8220;transformational impact&#8221; for energy-producing states. &#8220;By ending the so-called Endangerment Finding, President Trump is delivering the largest cutting of red tape in history — unleashing American energy and making everything more affordable,&#8221; U.S. Department of the Interior Secretary Doug Burgum echoed.
Industry leaders, including the American Trucking Associations and the American Petroleum Institute, supported the shift, citing the need for &#8220;achievable&#8221; standards and the preservation of gas-powered vehicle options.
While environmental advocates are expected to challenge the ruling in court, the administration remains firm that major climate policy must be decided by Congress rather than executive agencies.

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Trump Ends Federal Emission Standards For Vehicles In Historic Deregulatory Move

Trump Administration Rescinds EPA Endangerment Finding In Historic Deregulatory Move

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The Trump administration is set this week to repeal the Obama-era “endangerment finding” on which federal regulations on greenhouse gas emissions rest.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Tuesday that President Donald Trump and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin are set to formalize a new rule rescinding the emissions ruling in an event scheduled for Thursday.
“This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations. The bulk of the savings will stem from reduced costs for new vehicles, with the EPA projecting average per vehicle savings of more than $2,400 for popular light-duty cars, SUVs, and trucks,” <a href="https://x.com/WarMachineRR/status/2021296500928655493">said</a> Leavitt.
Environmental groups have already promised to explore lawsuits as soon as the final rule is signed.
“Lee Zeldin and Donald Trump plan to toss out the endangerment finding on blatantly specious legal grounds, attempting to wish away the Supreme Court’s landmark 2007 holding in Massachusetts v. EPA that the Clean Air Act does cover greenhouse gas pollution,” the Sierra Club said in a press release. “While this rule specifically concerns greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, EPA has made clear that it will do the same for other major sources of climate pollution like power plants.”
EPA Administrator Zeldin <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/epa-announces-plan-to-throw-out-obama-era-climate-restrictions">began</a> the move to roll back the finding in July, saying that the deregulatory effort was “driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion.”
The new rule will “repeal all resulting greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines, thereby reinstating consumer choice and giving Americans the ability to purchase a safe and affordable car for their family while decreasing the cost of living on all products that trucks deliver,” the agency said at the time.
The “endangerment finding” was drawn up in 2009 by the EPA under former President Barack Obama. The finding is not a regulation, but a legal determination that greenhouse gases, such as carbon dioxide and methane, are a threat to public health and should be regulated. The finding became the basis for a wave of regulations on greenhouse gas emissions that covered power plants, engines, and other common greenhouse gas emitters.
The final rule would rescind emissions standards on motor vehicles and associated compliance programs. It would also remove some mandatory reporting requirements for industries, according to <a href="https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/trump-to-repeal-landmark-climate-finding-in-huge-regulatory-rollback-ff7d58db?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=AWEtsqc-iEqI12SYGzN5JMUaWEzF78Y8dnfwJ-FEqju50asm9b4hJlghXz5X3WcVecc%3D&amp;gaa_ts=698b9b82&amp;gaa_sig=pc2gkz7zAniJG3EDoD_PYRiGsQG3TMUz6k3l79yRrTmMy0YBj9Rh-mGWVgarxPaMEU9GGe6Rj6wrvwYIyX9Dhg%3D%3D">The Wall Street Journal</a>.
The rule would not impact regulations on emissions from power plants, but it would lay the groundwork for future rollbacks of those regulations, officials told WSJ.
This move is just one in an ongoing <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2025/07/10/trump-big-beautiful-bill-ends-7500-ev-tax-credit-time-to-buy-vehicle.html">deregulatory</a> effort by the Trump administration as it relates to alleged climate change. In 2025, President Trump and Congress ended the federal electric vehicle tax credit with the “One Big Beautiful Bill,” repealing provisions that had been expanded under former President Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act.
Additionally, EPA head Zeldin <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-launches-biggest-deregulatory-action-us-history">announced</a> in early 2025 that his agency was poised to take dozens of deregulatory actions that would &#8220;roll back trillions in regulatory costs and hidden &#8216;taxes&#8217; on U.S. families,&#8221; according to an EPA press release.

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Rep. Jasmine Crockett got pushback from CNN anchor Kaitlan Collins — and a warning from Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin — when she threw maximum effort into damage control on Wednesday, doubling down on comments she’d made earlier in the day.
Crockett, on the House floor, had made an <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/jasmine-crockett-tries-to-drop-a-bomb-but-trips-over-the-wrong-jeffrey-epstein">attempt</a> to tie a number of Republicans — from former Utah Senator Mitt Romney to Zeldin, among others — to the late convicted pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, but her gamble went sideways when it turned out she was talking about the wrong Jeffrey Epstein.
Collins cornered Crockett on the subject on Wednesday evening, noting that after she’d claimed “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein” had donated to numerous Republican campaigns, Zeldin had informed her that those donations were made by Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, whose only connection to the disgraced financier was an unfortunate coincidence with regard to his name. Crockett, when confronted, doubled down — and prompted Zeldin to fire off a warning in response.
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Rep. Jasmine Crockett responds to Lee Zeldin saying he never took donations from that Jeffrey Epstein — but instead a physician who is also named Jeffrey Epstein — following her comments on the floor. <a href="https://t.co/ReN4IbTW6K">pic.twitter.com/ReN4IbTW6K</a>
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) <a href="https://twitter.com/kaitlancollins/status/1991344433888129365?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 20, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Collins showed video of Crockett, on the House floor, saying that her team had uncovered donations from “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein” to “Mitt Romney, the NRCC, Lee Zeldin, George Bush, WinRed, McCain-Palin, Rick Lazio &#8230;”
“Yes, Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine,” Zeldin had replied at the time.
When prompted to respond, Crockett said, “Listen, I never said that it was that Jeffrey Epstein. Just so that people understand, when you make a donation, your picture is not there.”
She then blamed her mistake on Republicans, claiming they had not given her enough time to prepare, so she threw out that accusation to teach them a lesson about the dangers of making accusations without doing proper research first.
“And because they decided to spring this on us in real time, I wanted the Republicans to think about what could potentially happen because I knew that they didn’t even try to go through the FEC. So my team, what they did is they Googled,” she said. “And that is specifically why I said, ‘a’ Jeffrey Epstein. Unlike Republicans, I at least don’t go out and just tell lies. Because it was not the same one, that’s fine. But when Lee Zeldin had something to say, all he had to say was it was a different Jeffrey Epstein. He admitted that he did receive donations from a Jeffrey Epstein. So at least I wasn’t trying to mislead people.”
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Crockett went on to suggest that the Jeffrey Epstein in question could still potentially be the convicted pedophile: “Now, have I dug in to find out who this doctor is? I have not. So I will trust and take what he says, that it wasn’t that Jeffrey Epstein, but I was not attempting to mislead anybody. I literally had maybe 20 minutes before I had to do that debate.”
Collins appeared taken aback by Crockett’s argument, noting,  “Yeah, but people might see that and say, well, you’re trying to make it sound like he took money from a literal sex offender.”
“But I literally did not know,” Crockett protested, adding, “Within 20 minutes, you could not find that out, not from just doing a quick search on FEC. So, number one, I made sure that I was clear that it was a Jeffrey Epstein, but I never said that it specifically that Jeffrey Epstein because I knew that we would need more time to really dig in.”
Zeldin <a href="https://x.com/leezeldin/status/1991354913612267754">fired back</a> again, saying, “When you find yourself in a hole, it’s best to stop digging.”
He said that in addition to public FEC documents stating that the donor to his campaign was a physician, it was worth noting that the donations she was referring to had been made after the convicted pedophile had died by apparent suicide in a New York jail cell.

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‘Stop Digging’: Lee Zeldin Hits Back When Jasmine Crockett Doubles Down On Jeffrey Epstein Flub

'Stop Digging': Lee Zeldin Hits Back When Jasmine Crockett Doubles Down On Jeffrey Epstein Flub

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Texas Democratic Rep. Jasmine Crockett, who many leftists see as the future of the Democratic party, on Wednesday made a scathing statement on the floor of the House naming members of the GOP who had received money from “somebody named Jeffrey Epstein.”
“Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, as I had my team dig in very quickly: Mitt Romney. The NRCC. Lee Zeldin. George Bush. McCain-Palin. &#8230; Rick Lazio. I just want to be clear: If this is the standard that we gonna make just know we gonna expose it all and just know that the FEC filings they are available for everybody to review,” she hyperventilated.
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Crockett: Folks who also took money from somebody named Jeffrey Epstein, as I had my team dig in very quickly, Mitt Romney. The NRCC. Lee Zeldin. George Bush. McCain-Palin. <a href="https://t.co/CdwuSacQpb">pic.twitter.com/CdwuSacQpb</a>
&mdash; Acyn (@Acyn) <a href="https://twitter.com/Acyn/status/1990889556774903965?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 18, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Oops. Wrong Jeffrey Epstein.
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Yes Crockett, a physician named Dr. Jeffrey Epstein (who is a totally different person than the other Jeffrey Epstein) donated to a prior campaign of mine.
NO 👏 FREAKIN 👏 RELATION 👏 YOU 👏 GENIUS!!! <a href="https://t.co/gYQlcUd2we">https://t.co/gYQlcUd2we</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@LeeMZeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/LeeMZeldin/status/1990993148244312175?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Jeffrey Epstein died on August, 10 2019. The donations from a DIFFERENT Jeffrey Epstein were made over the next year: 🤨 <a href="https://t.co/w8vDKhS4on">pic.twitter.com/w8vDKhS4on</a>
&mdash; Marla Hohner (@marlahohner) <a href="https://twitter.com/marlahohner/status/1991158361786581499?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Oof. <a href="https://twitter.com/JasmineForUS?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@JasmineForUS</a> is disastrously wrong here. None of these donors are *the* Jeffrey Epstein. Several are from the same Dr. Jeffrey Epstein, and the donations to Lee Zeldin are from after *the* Epstein killed himself. <a href="https://t.co/RES7GyTQMy">https://t.co/RES7GyTQMy</a> <a href="https://t.co/OSuTywr3D7">pic.twitter.com/OSuTywr3D7</a>
&mdash; Chuck Ross (@ChuckRossDC) <a href="https://twitter.com/ChuckRossDC/status/1990996259721588838?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">November 19, 2025</a></blockquote>
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“From 1989 up until 2003, Epstein donated more than $139,000 to Democratic federal candidates and committees and over $18,000 to Republican candidates and groups, according to data from OpenSecrets,” Open Secrets <a href="https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/12/billionaire-sex-offender-epstein-gave-heavily/?utm_source=chatgpt.com">reported</a> in 2018.
Crockett’s attacks on the GOP have included moments such as <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/jasmine-crockett-agrees-during-town-hall-republicans-want-poor-people-die">this one</a> from last June, when former Capitol Police Officer Michael Fanone said at a town hall, “Republicans want poor people to die as quickly as humanly possible,” prompting Crockett to reply, “I agree. I don&#8217;t think that is a glitch, but that&#8217;s actually part of the design.”
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Last March, Crockett <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/crockett-slammed-over-bogus-statement-explaining-her-mockery-of-governors-physical-disability?utm_source=chatgpt.com">infamously called</a> Texas GOP Governor Greg Abbott — who has been confined to a wheelchair since he was permanently disabled in his 20s when a tree fell on him — “Governor Hot Wheels.”
Speaking at a Human Rights Campaign <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/democrat-jasmine-crockett-faces-censure-push-for-governor-hot-wheels-taunt">event</a> in Los Angeles, Crockett mocked Abbott: “Y’all know we got Governor Hot Wheels down there, C’mon now.”
“And the only thing hot about him is that he is a hot-a** mess, honey,” she continued.
People online quickly pointed out that her later claim that she was not talking about Abbott’s disability was likely false, given that she had recently engaged with content from a critic of Abbott that specifically mentioned his wheelchair.
The post in question showed Abbott at the White House in his wheelchair, attending an event where the president signed an executive order starting the dismantlement of the Department of Education.
“Rolling up to the White House to cheer on the president destroying the agency that makes sure kids in wheelchairs have equal access to education is wild,” the post said. Crockett reposted and “liked” the post, according to screenshots shared by the original poster.

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One of the biggest moves made in modern history in the regulatory state occurred this week. On Tuesday, the Environmental Protection Agency <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/epa-endangerment-finding-repeal-greenhouse-gases-obama-trump-steve-koonin-67fcb2ce?mod=hp_opin_pos_1">moved to repeal</a> the 2009 so-called endangerment finding for greenhouse gas emissions.
The Clean Air Act, which was put into place in the 1970s, authorized the EPA to regulate pollutants like ozone, particulate matter, sulfur dioxide, and others that might endanger public health or welfare. 
But the EPA suggested, under Barack Obama, that the Clean Air Act could be used to regulate carbon emissions, which is insane. 
The Clean Air Act was meant to stop particulate matter. It was meant to stop the breaking down of the ozone layer. It was not meant to deal with carbon, and particularly carbon dioxide, which is a natural byproduct of breathing. 
Carbon dioxide is not a danger to human beings in the environment. You may not like what it does in terms of global climate change. But the idea that the EPA has authority under the Clean Air Act is wrong. If Congress wants to give the EPA that authority, then it certainly could. But it never did. 
The Supreme Court found in 2007 that greenhouse gases could qualify as pollutants under an extraordinarily broad misreading of the law. “There is some evidence that elevated carbon dioxide concentrations and climate changes can lead to changes in aeroallergens that could increase the potential for allergenic illnesses,” the Obama 2009 endangerment finding stated. 
Now the EPA is revoking the previous policy. The Wall Street Journal <a href="https://www.wsj.com/opinion/epa-endangerment-finding-repeal-greenhouse-gases-obama-trump-steve-koonin-67fcb2ce?gaa_at=eafs&amp;gaa_n=ASWzDAjNDB5-v2W5AWInkM3wgvwDH7QHcGNmdXIjN6_-Uu1CHb-Ilh_p391soX3w2uE%3D&amp;gaa_ts=688a5b6a&amp;gaa_sig=qeRIhaSN78lB5BrQ0s6rFUZyXLR8Enkln4V2Bv7sQbiCNXOc57C5dRowpTEBDBXQLeD75GPTigdc2QTCjcjnJA%3D%3D">wrote</a>: 
<blockquote>The Energy Department on Tuesday published a comprehensive analysis of climate science and its uncertainties by five outside scientists. One is Steven Koonin who served in the Obama Administration and is a contributor to these pages. The crucial point is that CO2 is different from the pollutants that Congress expressly authorized EPA to regulate.
Those pollutants “are subject to regulatory control because they cause local problems depending on concentrations that include nuisances (odor, visibility), damage to plants, and, at high enough exposure levels, toxicological effects in humans,&#8221; the report notes. “In contrast, CO2 is odorless, does not affect visibility and has no toxicological effects at ambient levels.”</blockquote>
In other words, higher levels of CO2 in the air from fossil fuels won’t make you sick.
You&#8217;re not going to get sick from CO2 in the air. Thus, the EPA administrator, Lee Zeldin, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright are taking this on. The Clean Air Act no longer applies in our interpretation to greenhouse gases. 
What does that mean? It means something extraordinary for the American economy. Among other things, such as a massive deregulatory environment, the alleged cost of regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act amounts to roughly $54 billion per year. If you multiply that out over the course of the last decade and a half, you&#8217;re talking about a cost in excess of $800 billion, all based on a regulatory agency radically exceeding its boundaries.
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Energy Secretary Chris Wright told me:
<blockquote>It&#8217;s just been a huge entanglement into American life. Big brother climate regulations from the government that don’t do anything meaningful for global greenhouse gas emissions. They don&#8217;t change any health outcomes for Americans, but they massively grow the government. &#8230; So administrator Lee Zeldin, is reviewing that and saying, “Hey, we don&#8217;t believe that greenhouse gases are a significant endangerment to the American public, and they shouldn&#8217;t be regulated by the EPA.”
The EPA does not have authority to regulate them because Congress never passed such a law. &#8230; I reached out to five, prestigious climate scientists that are real scientists in my mind … and we published a long critical overview of climate science and its impact on Americans. And that was released yesterday on the DOE Website, and I highly recommend everyone to give it a read. </blockquote>
I asked him what were the biggest findings from that report that he commissioned at the Department of Energy.
“Maybe the single biggest one that everyone should be aware of is the ceaseless repeating that climate change is making storms more frequent and more severe and more dangerous. It&#8217;s just nonsense. That&#8217;s never been in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reports. It&#8217;s just not true. But the media and politicians and activists just repeatedly repeat it,” he replied.
“We&#8217;ve just driven up the price of energy and reduced choice to American consumers without meaningfully moving global greenhouse gas emissions at all,” he said. “And when I talk to activists or politicians about it, they&#8217;re not even that concerned about it and say it. They don&#8217;t act as if their real goal is to incrementally reduce greenhouse gases in the atmosphere. Their real goal is for the government and for them — a small number of people — to decide what&#8217;s appropriate behavior for all Americans.”
“We just need some common sense back around energy and climate change. That&#8217;s where the Trump administration is headed across the administration, not just in Zeldin and myself, but everyone in the administration. We just want Americans to have a government that follows basic common sense,” he concluded.
Exactly.

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WINNING: Trump’s EPA Wrecks The Radical Green Agenda

WINNING: Trump's EPA Wrecks The Radical Green Agenda

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Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced at a press conference Tuesday that the agency would begin rolling back Obama-era policies that have allowed the federal government to heavily regulate vehicle emissions and more.
The new rule reverses the &#8220;Endangerment Finding,&#8221; a 2009 decision that classified gases like methane and carbon dioxide as detrimental to the environment and people&#8217;s health. Based on that rule, the EPA was able to justify regulating emissions standards across all industries under the Clean Air Act.
&#8220;This has been referred to as basically driving a dagger into the heart of the climate change religion,&#8221; Zeldin <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/epa-chief-zeldin-delivers-dagger-to-the-heart-of-obamas-climate-change-agenda-on-ruthless-podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> in a podcast appearance Monday.
The rule &#8220;Would repeal all resulting greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines, thereby reinstating consumer choice and giving Americans the ability to purchase a safe and affordable car for their family while decreasing the cost of living on all products that trucks deliver,&#8221; the EPA said in a <a href="https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-releases-proposal-rescind-obama-era-endangerment-finding-regulations-paved-way" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a>.
Zeldin says the move will slash unnecessary spending for individual businesses and eliminate the contentious <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-admin-is-slashing-fuel-efficiency-standards-claims-it-will-make-cars-affordable-again?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=undefined&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Admin+Is+Slashing+Fuel+Efficiency+Standards%2C+Claims+It+Will+%E2%80%98Make+Cars+Affordable+Again%E2%80%99" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Electric Vehicle mandates</a>. He also plans on opening a line of communication for public comment on the effects of emission regulations.
&#8220;If finalized, rescinding the Endangerment Finding and resulting regulations would end $1 trillion or more in hidden taxes on American businesses and families,&#8221; Zeldin said.
Jeff Clark, the acting administrator of the Office of Management and Budget, similarly touted the economic benefits of this proposed rule in a Tuesday morning <a href="https://x.com/JeffClarkUS/status/1950161513949302990" target="_blank" rel="noopener">post</a>. Clark said that an estimated national savings from this decreased regulation ranges from $1.7 to $8.2 trillion from 2027 to 2055.
Energy Secretary Chris Wright, who appeared with Zeldin to make the announcement, praised President Trump for &#8220;returning to free and open dialogue around climate and energy policy, driving the focus back to following the data.&#8221;
&#8220;Today&#8217;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,&#8221; Wright added.
This regulatory change will not be without legal challenge. The <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases/federal/us/549/497/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">landmark</a> 2007 Supreme Court case, Massachusetts v. EPA, determined that the Clean Air Act sufficiently allowed for the federal government to regulate emissions if it determined that climate change or pollutants pose a harm to the American public.
Other similar <a href="https://supreme.justia.com/cases-by-topic/climate-change-environment/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">rulings</a> have strengthened the EPA&#8217;s hold on emission standards for vehicles and businesses. The proposal will face a lengthy review process, including public comment, before it is finalized.
Zeldin hopes to slash red tape holding back businesses by redefining what the EPA can regulate.
&#8220;With regard to the endangerment finding, they&#8217;ll say carbon dioxide is a pollutant and that&#8217;s the end of it. They&#8217;ll never acknowledge any type of benefit or need for carbon dioxide,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s important to note, and they don&#8217;t, how important it is for the planet.&#8221;
Zeldin continued, saying that &#8220;We shouldn&#8217;t shy away from all of the innovation in the way that we tap into an energy supply here in the United States.&#8221;
He praised the EPA&#8217;s quick and decisive action in this move to commit to the massive deregulation.
&#8220;It&#8217;s one agency, in one year, doing more deregulation than the entire federal government across all agencies across entire presidencies when you look back in history. That&#8217;s how much of a mess it is that we inherited,&#8221; Zeldin said.

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A group of Republican lawmakers asked EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday to look at the dangers of flushing the abortion pill into America’s drinking water, according to a letter first shared with The Daily Wire. 
Led by Rep. Josh Brecheen and Sen. James Lankford of Oklahoma, the lawmakers urged Zeldin to take steps to probe whether the byproducts of mifepristone were ending up in drinking water and negatively impacting fertility. They argued that the deadly pills were not only ending the lives of unborn children, but also contaminating drinking water, making it unsafe for all Americans. 
“We recognize that the greatest tragedy of every abortion is the murder of the innocent. But we are also concerned that activist bureaucrats overlooked real public health risks posed by mifepristone in their crusade to expand abortion access,” Brecheen told The Daily Wire. “With chemical abortion now the most common abortion method in America, the public deserves answers about how these potent hormone disruptors affect our water supply and contribute to our nation’s rising infertility rates.”
The <a href="https://dw-wp-production.imgix.net/2025/06/Congressional-Letter-to-EPA-re-Mifepristone.pdf">letter</a> notes that there were at least 648,500 medication abortions in 2023, and that many chemicals from the pills, meant to kill an unborn child, were ending up in the water system. The lawmakers said that since mifepristone is meant to disrupt the hormones of a pregnant woman that it could have endocrine-disrupting effects for the general public when introduced into the water system. 
“If residual amounts of the drug and its metabolites persist in wastewater, prolonged exposure could potentially interfere with a person’s fertility, regardless of sex. We believe it is reckless to allow a known progesterone blocker to be flushed into America’s drinking water without knowing definitively if it impacts fertility rates,” the letter says. 
Senators Cynthia Lummis (WY), Bernie Moreno (OH), and Jim Banks (IN) also signed on to the letter, as did 20 other House Republicans. 
They asked Zeldin if the EPA believed mifepristone should be regulated under the Safe Drinking Water Act, if the EPA had considered monitoring or regulating mifepristone, and if the agency had conducted any reviews of the abortion pill&#8217;s impact on drinking water.
“Federal regulators are rightfully eager to study the health effects of many chemicals in our water and septic systems, but they haven’t examined the environmental and public health risks of chemical abortion drugs like mifepristone in those same systems,” Lankford said. “Scientific research on the health effects of water sources where there are trace amounts of a chemical that is designed to end the life of a child in the womb should not be controversial.”
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The action was also supported by Students for Life Action President Kristan Hawkins, who said that the Biden administration recklessly expanded the distribution of the abortion pill. 
“You don’t have to be pro-life to be concerned about endocrine disrupters in our waterways, potentially impacting our water safety, harming endangered species and our food supply, and perhaps even multiplying the rate of infertility,” she said. 
Medication abortion has quickly become the most common form of abortion, making up over 60% of all abortions, according to some estimates. The real percentage may be even higher because of the amount of illegal pills that are shipped into red states that have technically prohibited all abortions.
The Trump administration, which has <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/serious-mistake-trump-admin-moves-to-dismiss-challenge-to-mail-order-abortion-pills" target="_blank" rel="noopener">pulled some punches</a> against the abortion pill, took steps earlier this month to reevaluate the pill. FDA Commissioner Marty Makary told Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) that he would conduct a review of mifepristone and its widespread use.

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Prominent community members of Alaska’s North Slope warmly welcomed top Trump administration officials last week while ripping into the prior administration led by former President Joe Biden.
A trio of Trump cabinet officials – Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, and Energy Secretary Chris Wright – traveled to northern Alaska last week to announce that Biden-era restrictions on oil development in the region would be <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/trump-moves-to-unlock-millions-of-oil-rich-acres-in-alaska-from-biden-environmental-rules?author=Tim+Pearce&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=15&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Trump+Moves+To+Unlock+Millions+Of+Oil-Rich+Acres+In+Alaska+From+Biden+Environmental+Rules">rescinded</a>. The cabinet officials met with North Slope residents in Utqiagvik, Alaska.
Inupiat tribal leaders and officials greeted the news enthusiastically, according to video of the meeting obtained by The Daily Wire.
“When we had a similar meeting with the former Secretary of the Interior, that rule was announced after everybody got on the plane and flew out,” said Josiah Patkotak, mayor of North Slope Borough. He added that the prior administration’s rule “was contrary to what the public comment was.”
“Here we are, full transparency from our own secretary, and I think that deserves another round of applause,” Patkotak said after Burgum announced the administration’s intent to scrap the Biden-era restrictions.
Last year, the Biden administration banned oil and gas exploration and drilling across 10.6 million acres in the National Petroleum Reserve of Alaska (NPRA), a reserve set aside decades ago by Congress for future oil development. The administration put tight restrictions on development on another roughly three million acres of the reserve. In total, over half of the roughly 23-million acre reserve was locked to development.
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“Our ask is the same as always: that the North Slope Inupiat be central to discussions and decisions about land use in our region,” said Rex Rock, Sr., the president and CEO of the Arctic Slope Regional Corporation.
“Under the previous administration, as you heard, there were many actions that undermined our people’s self-determination, ignored our voices, and negatively impacted our communities. Their 2024 rule, Management and Protection of the National Petroleum Reserve – Alaska, was not supported by a single entity in our region – and they still chose to implement it,” he said.
“Our region opposed the 2022 NPRA integrated activity plan because it took 50% of the NPRA off the table for development, which impacts the ability of our region to provide services to our people and communities,” Rock added.
Charles Lampe, the current president of the Kaktovik Inupiat Corporation, said that under the Biden administration, the North Slope and its residents “were under attack” by environmental groups. Groups such as <a href="https://www.wilderness.org/wild-places/alaska/oil-drilling-arctic-national-wildlife-refuge">The Wilderness Society</a> have long pushed for federal restrictions on Alaska’s North Slope that would ban development and industry, even in the petroleum reserve.
“On Day 1, President Trump told the Fish and Wildlife Department to deny that request. And that was such an amazing thing for us to be able to see. And we were so proud of our president then because he made sure that our ancestral homelands weren’t going to be stolen, [but] protected,” Lampe said. “So, I really need to bring back this just immense gratitude to President Trump for that action.”
“If the other guy would have won,” said Lampe, refering to former President Joe Biden and former Vice President Kamala Harris, “there&#8217;s no doubt in my mind that our homeland would have been stolen, and there&#8217;s nothing we could have done about it.”

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Lee Zeldin, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), got into heated exchanges with Senate Democrats on Wednesday over his efforts to save taxpayer dollars at the agency.
Zeldin testified in front of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee on Wednesday and clashed with Democrats on the committee over his efforts to cut waste, fraud, and abuse.
Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse argued with Zeldin about cuts to the agency. Whitehouse along with other Democratic senators accused the administrator of lying about cuts constituting waste, fraud, or abuse.
A frustrated Zeldin eventually told the senator that the Trump administration is “not going to waste dollars just because you insist on EPA lighting taxpayer dollars on fire.”
“The American taxpayers, they put President Trump in office because of people like you. They have Republicans in charge of the House and Senate because of people like you, because you don&#8217;t care about 99% of this story,” Zeldin said. “You don&#8217;t want me to go through the list of all the evidence of waste and abuse. You don’t care about conflicts of interest. You don’t care about unqualified recipients.”
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Nothing exposes the hypocrisy of Congressional Dems like <a href="https://twitter.com/SenWhitehouse?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenWhitehouse</a> more than the cold hard truth about why I terminated their Green Slush Fund Scam and how I have unapologetically implemented a ZERO tolerance policy for ANY waste and abuse. <a href="https://t.co/1yQNlWLU7m">pic.twitter.com/1yQNlWLU7m</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1925234661409628461?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Sen. Ed Markey of Massachusetts repeatedly asked Zeldin to provide a list of “waste, fraud, and abuse,” but interrupted the administrator before he could run through a list of what his staff had found.
“Are you willing to admit here today, Mr. Administrator, that you don&#8217;t have any evidence of waste, fraud, and abuse?” Markey asked.
Zeldin repeatedly said he would be “happy to go through the list.” But Zeldin failed to get more than a few words into his list of waste, fraud, and abuse before the Massachusetts Democrat was “reclaiming” time and talking over the administrator.
“You want to declare there&#8217;s no evidence, but you don&#8217;t want me to go through the list,” Zeldin said.
Markey’s time expired before Zeldin could meaningfully discuss the cuts he has made to the Environmental Protection Agency.
“Never anything but malarkey from the mouth of Ed Markey. The American public is DONE with this double talk, dishonest hackery from these Congressional Democrats,” Zeldin posted on X.
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Never anything but malarkey from the mouth of Ed Markey.
The American public is DONE with this double talk, dishonest hackery from these Congressional Democrats. <a href="https://t.co/sdo0gh8c4K">pic.twitter.com/sdo0gh8c4K</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1925264793654505800?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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In a back-and-forth with California Sen. Adam Schiff, Zeldin took issue with the senator’s characterization of his leadership at the EPA and called Schiff “an aspiring fiction writer.”
“With that wind-up, by the way, I understand you&#8217;re an aspiring fiction writer. I see why,” said Zeldin.
Schiff responded: “Well, I understand your view that you can cut half of the agency and it won&#8217;t affect people&#8217;s health or their water or their air. That, to me, is a big fiction, Mr. Zeldin.”
Schiff’s time expired as he continued to lecture Zeldin. The agency administrator shot back at Schiff later on X: “Aspiring fiction writer @SenAdamSchiff got sad today that I called out a bunch more of his lies. The next time he says something truthful will be the first.”
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Aspiring fiction writer <a href="https://twitter.com/SenAdamSchiff?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@SenAdamSchiff</a> got sad today that I called out a bunch more of his lies. The next time he says something truthful will be the first. 
Regardless, the Trump EPA will tirelessly work on issues affecting his constituents like hazardous waste removal in LA… <a href="https://t.co/WKRaWOnPuC">pic.twitter.com/WKRaWOnPuC</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1925247823475363893?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 21, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Zeldin Torches Democrats Over EPA Reforms: ‘You Don’t Care About 99% Of This Story’

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The Trump administration is cracking down on blue state abuses of federal environmental legislation that impedes the White House&#8217;s push for American energy dominance.
The Environmental Protection Agency plans to issue a memo on Thursday clarifying the authority of state and tribal governments under Section 401 of the Clean Water Act. In recent years, states like New York and Washington have invoked that section to kill major fossil fuel projects, despite those states’ high energy prices.
“Under the last Administration, certain states attempted to leverage the Clean Water Act to undercut projects that would boost national and regional development and unleash American energy resources,” EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said in a statement. “With this memorandum, EPA is reinforcing the limits on Clean Water Act section 401 certification to support energy, critical mineral, and infrastructure projects that are key to economic growth and Power the Great American Comeback.”
Under Section 401, state and tribal governments may <a href="https://www.epa.gov/cwa-401/overview-cwa-section-401-certification" target="_blank" rel="noopener">block</a> “any activity that may result in any discharge into waters of the United States,” according to the EPA’s website. The law was designed to give local officials authority to step in if federally-permitted activities threatened water quality.
In 2020, the Trump EPA restricted the use of Section 401 authority. The move roiled blue states, and a coalition of 19 attorneys general joined together to <a href="https://www.mass.gov/news/ag-healey-sues-trump-administration-over-illegal-attack-on-clean-water-act" target="_blank" rel="noopener">sue</a> the administration over the rule change. The Biden administration <a href="https://www.instituteforenergyresearch.org/regulation/epa-reverses-another-trump-administration-rule/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reversed</a> the Trump rules in 2022.
Now, the Trump administration is reinstating its 2020 guidance in an effort to stop state-level Democrats from using the law to block key fossil fuel projects, such as pipelines and coal shipping terminals.
According to the Trump administration, Democrats have expanded use of the rule beyond its statutory role. In 2017, several states <a href="https://dailycaller.com/2018/08/16/coal-crow-tribe-washington-regulations/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">blocked</a> construction of a series of massive coal export terminals, the Millennium Bulk Terminals, in southwestern Washington.
In a <a href="https://ecology.wa.gov/getattachment/8349469b-a94f-492b-acca-d8277e1ad237/MBTL-Denial.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener">letter</a> denying the project approval, Washington State officials said they lacked “reasonable assurance” under Section 401 that mitigation efforts would offset damage done to wetlands and waterways. State officials also cited the State Environmental Policy Act to claim “diesel emissions” from trains, “adverse impacts to vehicle traffic,” and “[t]rain-related noise levels” were among other reasons why the project should be killed.
Former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo (D), who is currently running for mayor of New York City, blocked multiple pipeline projects during his tenure using Section 401. Cuomo blocked the Northern Access Pipeline in 2017, the Northeast Supply Enhancement Pipeline in 2018, and the Constitution Pipeline in 2019.
While natural gas pipeline projects were being blocked, New York has <a href="https://www.naturalgasintel.com/news/thousands-awaiting-natural-gas-service-in-new-york-amid-squeezed-supplies/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">suffered</a> under threats of shortages because of squeezed pipeline capacity. In January, the North American Electric Reliability Corp. <a href="https://www.nerc.com/news/Pages/Statement-on-NPCC-Northeast-GasElectric-System-Study.aspx" target="_blank" rel="noopener">said</a> New York’s energy infrastructure is under “severe threats to reliability” because of its lack of extra pipeline capacity in the event of severe weather.
New York Governor Kathy Hochul (D) continued Cuomo’s stance against natural gas pipelines, blocking the Northern Access Pipeline again in 2024 after it had received approval from the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. While the state’s top Democrats have continued to kill pipeline projects, New York energy prices have remained some of the <a href="https://www.electricchoice.com/electricity-prices-by-state/#:~:text=The%20average%20electric%20rate%20across,to%2042.34%20cents%20per%20kWh." target="_blank" rel="noopener">highest</a> in the country.

EXCLUSIVE: Trump EPA Cracks Down On Blue State Threats To American Energy Dominance

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President Donald Trump&#8217;s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is on a mission to &#8220;fix&#8221; the despised start/stop technology in newer cars that shuts down a vehicle&#8217;s engine when stopped in traffic or at a red light in the name of conserving fuel and saving the planet.
EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin said on Monday that his agency would begin looking into how it can modify the start/stop feature. The EPA currently incentivizes car manufacturers to make cars with the start/stop system. The technology can give vehicles anywhere between a 3% to 10% fuel economy boost.
&#8220;Start/stop technology: where your car dies at every red light so companies get a climate participation trophy. EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it,&#8221; Zeldin wrote on X.
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Start/stop technology: where your car dies at every red light so companies get a climate participation trophy. EPA approved it, and everyone hates it, so we’re fixing it. <a href="https://t.co/zFhijMyHDe">pic.twitter.com/zFhijMyHDe</a>
&mdash; Lee Zeldin (@epaleezeldin) <a href="https://twitter.com/epaleezeldin/status/1921894994769575972?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">May 12, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Zeldin did not elaborate on specific plans to change the feature.
Start/stop technology was first used by European car manufacturers on hybrids, but over the past decade, most automakers began implementing the system in many of their new vehicles, including SUVs and pickup trucks. By 2019, however, more automakers began giving drivers the option to shut off the start/stop system as people began to complain. Buick first gave drivers that option with its 2019 Envision based on &#8220;customer feedback,&#8221; according to <a href="https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a19561461/automakers-increasingly-offer-ways-to-deactivate-stopstart-systems-temporarily/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Car and Driver</a>. Ford, GM, Volvo, and Lincoln also began including the shut-off option in their start/stop vehicles between 2017 and 2018.
While most cars with start/stop technology allow drivers to deactivate the system, they can&#8217;t turn it off permanently, and owners of start/stop cars who don&#8217;t want to use the tech still have to turn it off every time they get back in the car. The EPA’s fuel-economy test results for vehicles with the start/stop system are affected if drivers turn the system off. According to Car and Driver, &#8220;If a vehicle’s stop/start system can be permanently turned off, then the vehicle’s fuel economy is tested both when stop/start is active and when it’s off. The EPA then averages the two tests for a resulting fuel-economy rating found on the car’s window sticker—which is certain to be lower.&#8221;
The response to Zeldin&#8217;s announcement was overwhelmingly <a href="https://x.com/epaleezeldin/status/1921894994769575972/quotes" target="_blank" rel="noopener">positive</a> on social media, with many people calling the objective &#8220;common sense.&#8221;

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The Environmental Protection Agency will save $300 million per year through a massive reorganization by completely slashing unnecessary climate programs and reducing staffing levels to levels not seen since the Reagan administration, the agency announced Friday.
Administrator Lee Zeldin said the streamlined reorganization is oriented towards focusing on the agency&#8217;s &#8220;core mission,&#8221; which he defines as &#8220;protecting human health and the environment.&#8221; Rather than focusing on environmental justice, it will focus on its statutory responsibilities such as air quality and safety of the water supply.
“With these organizational improvements, we recommit to fulfilling all of our statutory obligations and exceptionally delivering on EPA’s core mission of protecting human health and the environment,&#8221; said Zeldin. &#8220;This reorganization will bring much needed efficiencies to incorporate science into our rule makings and sharply focus our work on providing the cleanest air, land, and water for our communities. It will also save at least $300 million annually for the American people.&#8221;
A source familiar with the restructuring told The Daily Wire that the reorganization could lead to future cuts amounting to around 10% of the current workforce. In the ongoing round of the Deferred Resignation Program, better known as the &#8220;fork in the road&#8221; option for federal employees to leave government, there has been significant interest.
The agency has already received about 1,300 applications to leave, a source told The Daily Wire. The first &#8220;fork in the road&#8221; offer months ago yielded around 545 early resignations.
With the ongoing restructuring, more employees could soon be taking up the offer to leave. Over 8,300 EPA employees hopped on a briefing this week to learn about the agency&#8217;s ongoing Deferred Resignation Program and the Voluntary Early Retirement Authority.
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The changes will primarily impact the Office of the Administrator, Office of Air and Radiation, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention (OCSPP), and Office of Water as the agency will seek to focus on its core statutory duties. Specifically, climate and atmospheric focused programs inside the Office of Air and Radiation are expected to be on the chopping block.
In some cases, the agency will also be incorporating more modern issues into the departments. For example, the Office of Water will now have more of a focus on cybersecurity to protect the water supply and water reuse issues. The agency will also be looking to form the Office of State Air Partnerships within the Office of Air and Radiation.
Earlier this year, the EPA ended the Biden administration&#8217;s diversity, equity, and inclusion office and its Office of Environmental Justice. With this move, the agency cut 280 employees and moved another 175 to perform tasks for other offices.

EPA To Slash Climate Programs, Promises Return To Reagan-Level Staffing

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