Word on the street is that tomorrow is the big day when the federal government’s phony-baloney greenhouse gas “Endangerment Finding” will finally get rescinded by EPA. It has now been more than 16 years since this idiotic and massive government power grab got foisted on the American people by the Obama EPA in December 2009.
I don’t have any good insight into what the rescission documentation will look like. If the people writing it do what is really appropriate, they will heap mounds of scorn, derision and ridicule upon the Finding itself, and upon the legions fools, dopes and grifters who continue to try to support it.
While we all hold our breaths for this big moment, I am shamelessly shilling for the February 19 Net Zero Watch in-person event in New York, “Net Zero and Freedom.” The event is free and open to the public, but space is limited, so you must RSVP if you want to attend. (Full disclosure: I am the President of the American Friends of the GWPF, which is the American fund-raising affiliate of Net Zero Watch.). It would be great to see a good turnout of MC readers at this event.
Here is the event flyer:
About withdrawing the 2009 Endangerment Finding, about which Lee Zeldin has said he will speak today (2/12/2026):
“I don’t have any good insight into what the rescission documentation will look like.”
I don’t either. But I do know that the proposed new rule included this wording:
“Based on this review of the Endangerment Finding and the most recently available scientific information, data, and studies, the Administrator proposes to find, in an exercise in discretionary judgment, that there is insufficient reliable information to retain the conclusion that GHG emissions from new motor vehicles and engines in the United States cause or contribute to endangerment to public health and welfare in the form of global climate change.”
There is indeed insufficient reliable information to retain the conclusion from the 2009 Finding.
That is the thrust of the comment I entered on the docket, demonstrating this point using the ERA5 “vertical integral of energy conversion” values I often post about. Will EPA staff do their own downloads and plots to confirm that simple point? Who knows? But it does not require a peer-reviewed study to see the problem – just someone willing to take a look for themselves. The magnitude of the claimed radiative influence is vanishingly weak in the proper context of the dynamics of the general circulation, most easily shown using the energy conversion values.
https://www.regulations.gov/comment/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194-0305
Thank you for your patience in this matter.
Although I will miss the live streamed announcement, I do have my beer and popcorn at ready and a pizza on order to celebrate.
More beer and popcorn will be available to watch the angst and complaining by all the Trans-Reality Alarmists.
Cheers.
Commendations to all of those that brought to fruition this transition back to reality.
I just used Street View in Google Earth Pro to see where the Penn Club is located. I’m 2,852 miles away, prefer range country with cattle, deer and eagles. I guess I’ll pass. Thanks for the invite. 🙂
It’s announced. Huzzah!
Next step is to remove the “Greenhouse Gas” verbiage from the Inflation Reduction Act.