Republican Sets Liberal Reporter Straight As She Cries About Trump Destroying The Green New Scam

The Trump administration's EPA officially rescinded the 2009 'endangerment finding,' which had declared greenhouse gases like methane and carbon dioxide as causing global warming and endangering human health. This finding was a lynchpin for setting emission standards under the Clean Air Act.

The Trump administration's EPA has officially said that they're going to stop acting on climate change. Even though the pollution causing it is dangerous to human health. That's not political. That is simply a scientific fact. They repealed the EPA's endangerment finding. That's the rule that said pollution endangers human life.

The host argues that CO2 is not a pollutant in the same way as lead or sulfur dioxide, as it does not have an immediate negative impact on human health. He cites that human exhalation contains 40,000 parts per million (ppm) of CO2, while the atmosphere contains only 420 ppm, suggesting the 'endangerment finding' on CO2 is based on 'shoddy science.'

The Endangerment Finding ruled that CO2 endangered human life, which is a huge government overreach because CO2 is not a pollutant in the way that lead or sulfur dioxide and all these other pollutants are. It doesn't have an immediate negative impact on human health. Case in point, I am exhaling CO2 right now at 40,000 parts per million when I exhale. In our atmosphere, it is a trace gas that is only 420 parts per million. So, this idea that CO2 is a pollutant that dangers human life is on shoddy science.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin asserts that regulating greenhouse gas emissions, which incurs 'trillions of dollars of regulatory costs' on Americans, should be a matter for Congress to debate and vote on, not for the EPA to legislate through administrative findings. He states his job is to follow the law, and the current law (Clean Air Act Section 202) does not explicitly grant the EPA authority for such broad climate regulation.

I committed when I was going through the confirmation process that I'm going to follow the law and there's no way that I'm going to sit here and have any apology or regret for applying the best reading of a law and reading a Supreme Court decision that makes it clear that if you're going to regulate the heck out of greenhouse gas emissions with trillions of dollars of regulatory costs on Americans, um that's something that Congress should have a debate and a vote on.

The host and a referenced 'young lady' argue that fossil fuels are fundamental to economic prosperity and the high standard of living in developed nations. They state that fossil fuels power 80% of the energy system and that countries moving away from them often face challenges due to renewable technology not being sufficiently developed.

You know what makes us richer? Fossil fuels. You guys, I hate to break it to you, but fossil fuels is a thing that's made us so prosperous and rich in the past 100 years. And this idea that the fossil fuel executives are just hoarding all their money when really they're just providing a service for us that we really want, which is fossil fuels, oil, coal, natural gas, which power 80% of our energy system.

Zeldin highlights China's hypocrisy in lecturing Europe and the United States on climate targets while simultaneously increasing its own coal production more than the rest of the world combined. He notes China utilizes 40% more coal than the rest of the world.

China where they were essentially lecturing Europe and the United States on the targets that had been set on climate that Europe wasn't setting bold enough goals and yet China is not holding themselves to the goals that they are demanding, lecturing, trying to shame Europeans into, saying that Europe isn't going far enough. You know, meanwhile, China uh is increasing coal production more than the rest of the world combined. China utilizes 40% more coal than the rest of the world combined.