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The Trump administration just gutted the EPA's endangerment finding, the legal foundation for regulating carbon emissions from cars, power plants, and polluters for the past 15 years. This rollback does nothing to lower costs for American families. It hands a massive gift to fossil fuel executives while putting our children's health and future at risk.


The Breakdown:


Trump's EPA revoked the 2009 scientific finding that greenhouse gases endanger public health, eliminating the legal basis for federal emissions regulations
Lee Zeldin announced the rollback from the Roosevelt Room while Trump stood behind him barely able to stay awake, calling it "as big as it gets, they tell me"
Barack Obama responded directly, warning that without the endangerment finding, we will be less safe, less healthy, and less able to fight climate change
The day before, Trump was handed a fake trophy naming him "Undisputed Champion of Beautiful Clean Coal" by mining executives, then signed orders directing the Pentagon to buy coal power
Trump ordered $175 million to keep six aging coal plants running, calling it modernization when it is really another fossil fuel industry bailout
Democrats are holding the line on federal immigration funding, refusing to give Trump a blank check for his deportation force as a government shutdown looms
A federal judge blocked the Pentagon from punishing Senator Mark Kelly for a video urging service members not to follow illegal orders, protecting his First Amendment rights
Tom Homan announced the end of Operation Metro Surge in Minnesota after weeks of public outrage, protests, and the deaths of Renee Good and Alex Pretti
The New York Federal Reserve reported Americans paid nearly 90 percent of the cost of Trump's tariffs in 2025, with average tariffs jumping from 2.6 percent to 13 percent
An AP-NORC poll found about 6 in 10 Americans, including 6 in 10 independents, believe Trump has gone too far with immigration enforcement
Trump's approval is slipping with independents and Republicans as resistance grows in courts, communities, and classrooms across the country


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Tags: Heather Delaney Reese, Hope for America, EPA, endangerment finding, climate change, Lee Zeldin, Donald Trump, Barack Obama, carbon emissions, fossil fuel industry, coal power, government shutdown, DHS funding, immigration enforcement, Mark Kelly, Pete Hegseth, Operation Metro Surge, Tom Homan, Minnesota, ICE raids, tariffs, New York Federal Reserve, AP-NORC poll, clean air, environmental regulation, First Amendment