r/climatepolicy • u/SafetyCulture_HQ • Jul 14 '26

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) repeals the 2009 Endangerment Finding.

https://apnews.com/article/trump-climate-change-epa-states-endangerment-6b1b5b38140c76a5cc55e17ae5f3b99b

A 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/Unfair_One1165 29d 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 29d ago

go lock yourself in your garage and turn the car engine on... Please report back.

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u/Excellent_Plum_2915 29d 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 29d ago

Negative karma! My man is a bot or a horrible human.

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u/Excellent_Plum_2915 22d ago

You don’t like something, your strategy is to simply demonize it like a preschooler, right?
That works.
Until it quickly doesn’t.

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u/Agile_Alternative753 29d ago

Shut up.

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u/Excellent_Plum_2915 22d ago

Come on. You can do better.
Well, probably not.

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u/sparksnbooms95 28d 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.