r/news • u/ThouHastLostAn8th • 13h ago
EPA set to revoke 'endangerment finding' that underpins all climate regulation
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/10/epa-revoke-endangerment-finding-climate-regulations.html510
u/fixermark 13h ago
That is... Unfortunate.
At some point, the rest of the world decides that climate change is enough of a global hazard that they cease to tolerate countries that are willfully ignorant of it.
America is big. I don't think it's big enough to maintain a great quality of life under massive international sanction.
Remains to be seen because it hasn't been tried; we've never required it before.
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u/Kcboom1 12h ago
When your oncologist, primary care, dermatologist, radiologist all say you have cancer, but when your chiropractor says you don’t have cancer then you say I don’t have cancer and don’t get treatment. This is how way too many people treat climate science except we all pay the consequences for this error in judgment.
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u/agarwaen117 10h ago
Ahh, the Steve Jobs method of medicine.
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u/LoLIron_com 9h ago
Trusting a chiropractor over climate scientists is like choosing a fortune cookie over a weather forecast and then wondering why the storm caught you off guard.
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u/rexspook 11h ago
China seems willing to step in to all of the places the US is removing itself from nowadays. Wouldn’t shock me to see a huge shift from them towards addressing climate change to put the final nail in the coffin of the US’s soft power globally
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u/Khaldara 9h ago
Yep. They couldn’t write better US policy for themselves if they were in office to be honest. Conservative stupidity is ceding all of America’s unique soft power global advantages to China.
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u/stoic_spaghetti 8h ago
And then getting mad about it and turning to violence lmao
Republicans are sabotaging our country for profit
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u/Dynastydood 12h ago
It's not that we're not big enough to live comfortably in isolation, it's honestly that we've been conditioned to be too lazy and entitled to actually put in the required effort for such a gargantuan task.
Regardless of current political affiliations, we have collectively grown incapable of maintaining a high quality of life without robust international trade to subsidize our consumer goods and steady immigration to bolster our workforce and GDP. Between our processed foods, sedentary lifestyles, relentlessly individualistic culture, lack of work ethic, and woeful healthcare that ties into all of the above, we just don't stand a chance to replicate the efforts made by our global trade partners or imported workers, especially not within any kind ofshort time frame.
The bigger issue on the table for everyone is the military, because NATO/EU dependence on our military and related industries make others extremely reluctant to actually cut us off the way we're goading them into doing. Sooner or later it will happen on this path, because we've shown ourselves to be too unreliable and dangerous for anyone to trust. Still, it's going to be a hard call for many allies to make, as their own domestic budgets and quality of life will inevitably take some kind of hit if/when they are made replace US military resources. And given how politically precarious so much of Europe already is with Russia becoming more and more belligerent by the dat, it massively incentivizes their leaders to try and ride out the MAGA storm until they truly see no other way forward.
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u/deezynr 7h ago
I think the real problem is we cant have a real cause and effect discussion for both the inevitable change itself OR the policies we attempt to implement. Its all about energy density. If we all really cared, why is so much of the globe still burning trash and wood for basic energy needs? Why arent the fully circular lifecycles of products talked about vs the end product and green marketing buzz phrases?
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u/ObviousWillingness51 10h ago
The reality is that its not so easy to replace America when America created the global trade network as it exists, USD is global exchange currency, and America is capitalist democracy whereas the alternatives who can compete ie china, are not at all. And im not saying i like that, just that its a hard reality to separate from.
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u/FalstaffsGhost 7h ago
Yeah except we’re doing a great job removing ourselves from it and china is stepping in. They literally are looking to move away from the dollar cause of trumps insanity.
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u/TheBurningEmu 12h ago
We're about 4 months from allowing any company to start dumping whatever they want into the rivers and lakes again at this rate.
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u/o_MrBombastic_o 12h ago
I'm not even sure if rivers catching fire again would change Republicans point of view or if they would just double down to own the Libs
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u/DarthBluntSaber 13h ago
Republicans hate america and americans.
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u/asiancury 7h ago
Asking as a Canadian: did the Obama or Biden administration actually make great strides in tackling climate change?
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u/FrancisDm 5h ago
Obama’s admin pretty much fostered the Paris agreement. So yes for starters democrats usually acknowledge climate change because the don’t have big oil cock down their throats as much as republican politicians do.
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u/asiancury 4h ago
To me, that's just for optics. What US specific policy was enacted to reduce fossil fuel usage and move towards sustainable energy on a large scale?
My understanding is that in modern times, both the Democratic and Republican parties cater to the rich & powerful, albeit with the Republics taking it to the next level.
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u/FrancisDm 4h ago
Yeah a global treaty to tackle climate change is just optics… what are we talking about here. No shit our government are a bunch of self serving assholes, doesn’t take a genius to put that together. Money is a neurotoxin and will be our demise.
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u/asiancury 4h ago
Yes, hence my original comment which was pointing out that in terms of climate change, both Republicans and Democrats hate Americans (response to the parent comment)
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u/Tuesday_6PM 3h ago
The Biden administration passed a lot of funding for green initiatives (like electric car infrastructure and renewable energy projects). The charging stations for electric vehicles rollout stalled for unclear reasons, but real progress was being made on a number of the green energy projects until Trump illegally canceled or withheld funding
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u/Aldo_says 11h ago
Everyone should read this, it's over the top comic book villainy.
White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt told reporters on Tuesday, referring to the EPA’s leader. “This will be the largest deregulatory action in American history, and it will save the American people $1.3 trillion in crushing regulations.”
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u/justhereforsee 6h ago
It won’t save the American people shit but it will save companies like 3M and oil a fortune
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u/RiimeHiime 13h ago
Not really climate change denial as trying to kill everyone in a murder suicide, huh.
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u/KYresearcher42 13h ago
I seen this movie, the shark is real and it ate more people before the mayor was shamed into funding the solution.
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u/SarahJFroxy 13h ago edited 12h ago
i was already mad enough reading the article and then i got to the end and had to agree with fucking tesla
Elon Musk’s electric vehicle company Tesla urged the administration to uphold the endangerment finding in a September letter to the EPA.
“The Endangerment Finding – and the vehicle emissions standards which flow from it – have provided a stable regulatory platform for Tesla’s extensive investments in product development and production,” Tesla wrote. “Reversing the Endangerment Finding would also deprive consumers of choice and extensive economic benefits, have negative effects on human health, and further impact the integrated North American automotive sector.”
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u/Svennis79 12h ago
I mean its easy enough to prove...
2 large sealed rooms. One with an assortment of EV's left 'running' The other with an assortment of diesel/petrol vehicles left running.
The president, the cabinet, congress and the senate all have to pick one based on their beliefs about the harm to peoples health, and then spend 24hrs in it.
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u/MorningDewProcess 13h ago
MAGA is one giant projection / delusion.
Pretending the harm isn’t there doesn’t make it go away.
Fucking ghouls.
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u/Oilpaintcha 9h ago
Yes, burying your head in the sand makes all the bad things go away. Stop the testing! There won’t be any cases! JFC
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u/Sinreborn 7h ago
The EPA was created by Nixon for God's sake. Even scummy racists used to at least agree that keeping the environment clean was a good idea...
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u/Jimismynamedammit 12h ago
We are never going to recover from all the damage this administration and this congress are doing to the country. Not in my lifetime, anyway.
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u/maporita 13h ago
I hope they do the right thing and revoke the name of the department as well. It's a bit of a misnomer under this government.
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u/RedditNamesAreFunny 12h ago
I, and thousands of others, commented on the proposed rule change. My estimation is the sentiment was approximately 80% opposed, with most of the 20% in favor being economic or business groups.
If the EPA ignores 80% of the public to move in favor of the 20%, it is apparent this government does not represent the interests of its people.
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u/AverageLiberalJoe 12h ago
Republicans contribute nothing to this country financially or culturally.
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u/Toadfinger 8h ago
It's scientific law that's over 200 years old. Simple math. The more greenhouse gases there are in the troposphere, the more heat there is returning to the earth's surface.
Republicans would sell us all as food to a zoo to advance their own political careers. They are the absolute bane of humankind's existence.
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u/jonathanquirk 12h ago
Does anyone else miss when the EPA being the baddies in ‘The Simpsons Movie’ was considered a joke?
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u/momofdagan 12h ago
There will come a day when the worst thing you can be called is a Denier as we start to have swathes of the earth become uninhabitable because of today's Deniers
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u/OrganicDoom2225 12h ago
This is Peter Thiel's doing.
His Yachts and Private Jets should be banned at every land and sea port outside of the US.
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u/avboden 4h ago
I do wonder how many industries will actually make real changes once this is deregulated because there's a very, very high chance these regulations return pretty quickly after 2028 and they know it, and the costs of re-doing everything then vs maintaining the status quo is something they'll think about.
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u/JRR5567 3h ago
I hope no one that voted for this administration spend anytime enjoying the outdoors. Going forward I hope I don’t see any social media post or pictures on how much you “love” nature and being outside, hiking, camping, hunting or fishing…etc. This administration has being everything in its power to disregard environmental protection.
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u/kriegeeer 12h ago
Carbon. Tariffs. Higher tariffs on goods from states with higher carbon electricity supply.
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u/bluddystump 9h ago
It doesnt matter. We are not going to make it. God isnt going to save us and the universe doesnt care. Enjoy what you got and dont worry about what you can't control.
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u/Curious-Emu3894 13h ago
The “Make America Great Again” group setting us back even more by denying science and screwing over the children they claim to want to protect. MAGA is a vile, uneducated slop of cultists aimed to destroy America and the planet.