The good news is that the Trump administration has announced its repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s “endangerment finding.” As Matthew Hennessey puts it in the Wall Street Journal’s Free Expression newsletter this morning, the finding is the “2009 determination that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health. It was the legal basis for most federal climate regulation, allowing Washington technocrats to treat carbon dioxide, methane and four other gases as pollutants.” The White House trumpeted the repeal as “the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history.”
Let us cheer while we can. Woo hoo! It represents a victory over the administrative state.
The New York Times is not so inclined. Below is a screenshot of the headline over Lisa Friedman’s mournful story. It’s not quite up there with World Ends — Women, Minorities Hardest Hit!, but that’s what they’re thinking.
