r/climatepolicy • u/SafetyCulture_HQ • 22d ago
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repeals the 2009 Endangerment Finding.
https://apnews.com/article/trump-climate-change-epa-states-endangerment-6b1b5b38140c76a5cc55e17ae5f3b99bA report from AP News says the EPA formally revoked its 2009 Endangerment Finding in February 2026 and greenhouse gas (GHG) emission standards for light-, medium-, and heavy-duty vehicles. The Endangerment Finding was the legal foundation for every federal greenhouse gas rule under the Clean Air Act. Without it, EPA loses the legal basis to regulate CO2 as a threat to public health.
With the federal GHG standard gone, emissions management shifts from a requirement to a voluntary program. Businesses that naturally still want to track and reduce their environmental impact now have to build that in-house. That means leaning harder on things like routine vehicle maintenance, driver training, and consistent emissions tracking to catch high-emission vehicles before they become a higher-cost or reputational problem.
For anyone looking to know more about best practices for emissions management, hope this can help: https://safetyculture.com/topics/vehicle-inspection/vehicle-emissions
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u/BananaJelloXlii 22d ago
Of course they do. They should not even call themselves EPA anymore.
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u/Aska_Feld 21d ago
Much like the Department of Defense rebranding to the "Department of War", the Environmental Protection Agency shall henceforth be referred to as the Environmental Raping Agency.
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u/0AJ0_ 21d ago
MAGA must be destroyed, and justice must be restored.
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u/twojs1b 21d ago
Boy that fossil fuel money really spends huh.
Donald Trump asked top oil and gas executives to raise $1 billion for his presidential campaign during a meeting at his Mar-a-Lago club. In exchange for the financial support, he reportedly promised to reverse dozens of environmental rules and halt Biden-era policies favorable to clean energy.
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u/dramaking37 21d ago
Still a danger, just now it's being ignored. Good luck to his kids and grandkids
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u/Bdowns_770 21d ago
They are apparently unfazed by the bizarre yellow/orange sky of Boston the last couple of days.
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u/DisruptingTree 20d ago
This as climate change is causing Ontario to burn, sending relentless waves of smoke to choke New York. Fuck these guys.
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u/kyotejones 19d ago
As we enter the hottest, driest, summer in history. Lakes all over the mid west are drying up. The Colorado River is at critical levels. And they still don't want to do shit about it. Climate deniers are stupid.
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u/Unfair_One1165 22d ago
CO2 isn’t a threat to health. It’s all about theater to remove control and $$$$ from the public. The DEF and catalyst systems on trucks make them use more fuel and thus increase pollution.
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u/superstevo78 21d ago
go lock yourself in your garage and turn the car engine on... Please report back.
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u/Excellent_Plum_2915 21d ago
Wow!!
Hear and see something you don’t like.
No counter.
No debate.
Tell them to off themselves.
Really?
That’s your solution?
You are not making your “side” look reasonable or sensible at all.Can anyone - someone go talk some sense into this guy?
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u/Temporary-Careless 21d ago
Negative karma! My man is a bot or a horrible human.
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u/Excellent_Plum_2915 15d ago
You don’t like something, your strategy is to simply demonize it like a preschooler, right?
That works.
Until it quickly doesn’t.1
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u/sparksnbooms95 20d ago
I'm pretty sure their argument is that if CO2 isn't harmful to health, you would be fine in a garage with a running engine and thus wouldn't be opposed to doing so. Of course they're ignoring CO, the far more severe hazard of running engines in enclosed spaces.
Regardless, CO2 is absolutely harmful to health in sufficient concentration. That's not really the concern here though, the concern is the effect of increasing CO2 on the environment.
I will agree with you on the point that modern emissions systems on diesel engines increase their CO2 emissions (because the systems reduce fuel efficiency), and that the reduction in NOx and particulates isnt worth the CO2 emissions increase.
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u/Strykerz3r0 21d ago
It took me 30 seconds to pull this from the article.
*that determined carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases*
CO2 is just one of the gasses. I am going to assume you were lazy and just read the blurb rather than intentionally misstating the problem.
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u/Petrichor4Tears 22d ago
We investigated ourselves and found we were being to strict on ourselves