EPA Chief Zeldin Revoke Obama-Era ‘Trillion Dollar Scam’
A massive trillion-dollar scam embedded in the heart of the Obama-Biden “climate change” agenda is being dismantled by President Donald J. Trump’s administration in a sweeping rollback of radical environmental overreach.
At an Indiana car dealership this week, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the agency’s plan to revoke the 2009 Endangerment Finding — the bureaucratic backbone Democrats used to justify their war on gas-powered vehicles and enforce sweeping greenhouse gas regulations on the auto industry.
That policy, birthed during the Obama years and supercharged under Joe Biden, gave unelected federal agencies extraordinary power to cripple U.S. manufacturing, drive up vehicle costs, and force working Americans into expensive and unreliable electric cars. Under President Trump, the regulatory regime built on climate alarmism is being torn down.
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View Plans“What we’re reading about what happened during the Biden Administration obviously wouldn’t have ever happened under a President Trump Administration,” Zeldin said during a Fox Business interview with host Cheryl Casone.
Zeldin blasted the climate left for ignoring the safety, environmental, and economic consequences of their pet green projects. Casone referenced a report in the New York Post exposing how former Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg allowed wind turbines to be constructed dangerously close to critical infrastructure—overruling at least 33 safety recommendations in 2023 and 2024. According to a current official, the turbines may interfere with vital radio communications.
“I have seen so many examples of where in this windmill conversation, the left just hasn’t been honest in talking about the safety concerns, the environmental impacts, the economic costs,” Zeldin said. “President Trump has been very crystal clear and consistent with his view on all of this.”
Zeldin praised current Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy and Interior Secretary Doug Burgum for restoring transparency and realism to energy policy. He noted that under Trump, agencies are no longer afraid to challenge the “climate zealots” pushing unreliable wind power as a replacement for base load energy.
“We want to talk about these safety concerns and not hide from all of it because we’re afraid to confront, you know, climate zealots who just want to see more and more wind as if it is a substitute for base load power, which clearly it is not,” he added.
Casone recalled President Trump’s remarks in Scotland, where he labeled windmills “ugly,” pointing out that their supposed environmental benefits are often a myth. “They can be actually environmentally destructive, even though they’re supposed to be clean power,” she said.
The EPA’s latest move also repeals the stop-start engine rule, axes Biden’s EV mandate, and pulls the plug on the regulatory noose that choked American auto innovation. Zeldin estimated the repeal could save Americans more than $54 billion annually, primarily by reducing auto prices, streamlining supply chains, and lifting crushing red tape on manufacturers.
Secretary of Energy Chris Wright hailed the move as part of a broader course correction from the failed “Green New Deal” model.
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View Plans“A monumental step toward returning to commonsense policies that expand access to affordable, reliable, secure energy and improve quality of life for all Americans,” Wright said.
President Trump’s administration has made it clear: climate absolutism is dead. Americans deserve energy freedom, not ideological control disguised as environmental concern.