Trump revokes greenhouse gas rule

U.S. President Trump reverses the Obama-era “endangerment
finding” which posits that greenhouse gases threaten the public
health and public welfare of current and future generations

President Trump speaks alongside Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee
Zeldin during event to announce rollback

White House brags it’s
“largest deregulation
in U.S. history”

TRUMP: CLIMATE CHANGE HEALTH DANGERS ARE “SCAM”

During announcement, Trump and Zeldin make false claims regarding
government declaration, energy generation, and electric vehicles

FALSE
Trump says that
endangerment
finding “had no basis
in fact... had no basis
in law”

FACT
2009: Finding
adopted by EPA
after Supreme Court
ruled in 2007 that
greenhouse gases are
air pollutants that can
be regulated under
Clean Air Act

FALSE
Trump: “We’ve
basically
stopped all windmills
in this country. It’s
most expensive
energy you can get”

FACT
Onshore wind
is one of
cheapest sources
of electricity

Generation cost per
megawatt hour ($)

WIND (ONSHORE)
GAS PLANT
NUCLEAR PLANT
WIND (OFFSHORE)

30
65
80
88

FALSE
Zeldin: “The
Obama and
Biden administrations
used the endangerment
finding to steamroll
into existence...
electric vehicle [EV]
mandates”

FACT
There has
never been
federal mandate to force
purchase of EVs. Biden
set up non-binding goal
that EVs make up half
of new cars sold by
2030 – Trump revoked
it on first day in office

Former President Barack Obama says that repeal of
endangerment finding will make Americans “less safe,
less healthy and less able to fight climate change –
all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more
money”

Globally, scientists agree carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases
are driving catastrophic heat waves, storms, droughts and sea level rise

Source: Associated Press
Pictures: Getty Images
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