When The Washington Post editorial board publishes a piece titled “EPA is right to reverse Obama overreach,” one checks the calendar for April 1. When the subheading reads, “If the federal government wants to more heavily regulate greenhouse gas emissions, Congress needs to pass a new law,” one begins to wonder whether a portal has opened over K Street. Yet there it is, in black and white. In an editorial dated February 10, 2026, the Post states plainly that the Environmental Protection Agency’s...
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So they realize the limitations of appointed agencies is what this says. Pass a law against CO2? Good luck with that.
They are simply trying to limit Trumps EPA opposite to how they treated Biden’s EPA
The sins of the climate fraudster fathers are coming to light. Thank you DJT.
What sins? So far nothing says it will be anything but “Oops! I blame Mr.Mann for being overenthusiastic. I trusted him. But let’s not blame all pseudoscientists for…” etc etc.
The bulk of weapons climate staff was fired a few days ago. Perhaps they are trying to right the ship?
“weapons” was WAPO which was “Washington Post”. Autocorrect to the “rescue” again.
The funny thing is WAPO can get the same or higher quality articles from AI (while maintaining the same bias) than the climate staff that was let go was giving them, It was more a cost cutting measure than any attempt to right the ship
I do hope the door slammed on the backside of axed climate reporters on their way out the door.
They are going to be reporting on the new underwater basket weaving. And eventually replaced with LLM like the rest.
EF recission is official. Huzzah!
We still need to eliminate the nonsense verbiage in the Inflation Reduction Act, where is lists CO2, etc., as “Greenhouse Gases.”
It is a greenhouse gas. The issue is if a small increase will have a significant affect on the environment. We are currently in an ice age where a large part of North America is covered in thick ice during the glacial maximum. We know from geology that it is very bad for the USA.
Will melting all the ice in Greenland be better? I am retired from the nuclear power industry. If you let the power industry build power plants to mitigate hot and cold weather, we as human adapt very well.
I have also noticed that Obama has adapted pretty well by using a lot more energy than my family. My solution is to ration energy like we did in WWII for everyone who is worried about it.
It is an invented problem and they can un-invent it.
We don’t have to ration energy to many of those worried about greenhouse gasses. They have done it to themselves. CA is going to have a gasoline crisis starting this summer. They are also going to be left behind in the billions and billions being spent on AI data centers.
New England needs to pray for global warming. If next year’s winter is similar to this year, they will be forced to shut industries and businesses down for people to stay warm, and they will be paying dearly for the natural gas to do so.
Maryland is well and truly screwed. They have virtually no instate power plants left, having shut them down to reduce emissions. They buy power from neighboring states like WV (produced by burning coal, interestingly). When AI starts really ramping up this summer, those states will have no surplus to sell to Maryland. Their only option is to outbid everyone else.
The primary problem does NOT stem from lack of natural gas production. More drilling won’t help, and we are producing enough for our needs and much of Europe’s. The main problem is lack pf pipeline capacity. Those states have delayed or prevented additional pipelines, both for new routes and reinforcing existing routes. The needs of AI data centers will result in capacity shortages, especially when there’s a cold weather event.
A bit of advice for those of you who live in states that allow you to lock in your natural gas rate for a period of time: all indications are that ng prices will be at their lowest price in either March or April of this year for at least the next two years. This is because of Europe’s needs – they are at a huge risk of an energy crisis if next winter is an average temps or colder. That’s another story.
edit rationing [/sarcasm]
Jim is wrong. When Obama was POTUS my electric rates went 30% because of anti-coal legislation. In my power bill, the reasons were spelled out. Our congressmen who voted for the bill blamed the power company.
Being anti-coal in a coal mining area got this congressman fired.
Obama did not feel the pain he caused. If his house is 30% colder in the winter and 30% warmer in the summer. He will fell the pain.
“It is a greenhouse gas.”
No, there is no such thing as a ‘greenhouse gas’.***
There are radiative gases, ( water vapor, carbon dioxide, methane ) that can absorb and re-emit infrared radiation & are controlled by the 2nd law of thermodynamics (heat naturally flows from hot to cold objects).
*** A greenhouse works by stopping convection.
But the atmosphere is constantly in motion, by convection & winds, it’s one big heat engine.
The Washington Post may have regained some sanity, but not CNN. I (accidently) watched CNN and they led with the headline “Trump to stop EPA from controlling pollution”. For a few minutes (I couldn’t find the control to change channels) they went on about how bad Trump, and associates, were, and never once mentioned the Endangerment Finding.
Maybe I fail to understand the force of the “endangerment finding”, but at least one news source asserts that the administration denies the scientific basis of the finding, but I thought the decision only ended the EPA from ruling on issues that directly depend upon the EF. IN short, the new policy is a legal decision, not a scientific ruling.
Is that a good understanding of what has happened?
Gums asks..
Gums, the 2009 Endangerment Finding was a short-cut to allow the EPA to act on six greenhouse gases. They simply utilized the flood of comments by “Scientists” to conclude that the six gases were a threat to human health and survival, avoiding prolonged (like until the next election?) scientific review and study.
When I was just entering the workforce it was clear that we had environmental and safety issues. Between OSHA and the EPA, these problems were solved based on the mandates from Congress by about 1990. That was good!
If some regulations are good, is more better? For example, low flow shower nozzles. P personally would buy them but making it a code requirement dilutes the importance of safety code.
After 4 years of not being able to criticize their government, this must be like fresh air to CNN. They get to be as mad as can be without scoring on their own team.
Imagine attending a high-ranking liberal arts school, struggling to get a job on tv or at a city newspaper, then being told you can’t say anything about the president’s mental decline of the criminals taking advantage of him for 4 years! The under-30’s must have _so_much_ bottled up frustration to get out.
This is sort of the WAPO talking out of both sides of its mouth-endorsing the repeal of the EF, but still claiming CO2 is a global threat, and suggesting Congress could pass a law regulating CO2 (as I speculated in the other post they will attempt along with using the courts to block the repeal).
It is now official, 13th February 2026. President trump and EPA head Lee Zeldin announce abolition of the 2006 EPA endangerment finding.
https://youtu.be/6ECdo99DkdM
Geoff S
The biggest part of this story, IMHO, was summarized in a “dino-world” newsbreak.
“The climate team bore a disproportionate burden. At least 14 members received layoff notices, including eight reporters or writers, one editor, and several specialists in video, data, and graphics. What remained was a skeleton crew of about five reporters. Executive editor Matt Murray described the moves as essential after years of financial losses and declining online traffic, partly due to generative AI’s rise.”
So the WaPo had a climate change staff of 19 all this time? And they were unable to unearth all of the ideas and supporting data from those who were skeptical of the “mainstream” narrative? No wonder they were losing much of their readership, along with tens of millions of dollars a year and whatever credibility they had left.
… checks who it’s new owner is and is unsurprised.
“BEZOS THE BLASPHEMER”!
When’s the stoning scheduled for, TFN?
Well, since Bezos is firing them for wasting his money and our time of course they are going to pretend to actually be “journalists” now.
It’s not Hell Froze Over. It’s the turn. Whoever pays the musician and allows him to play on that corner calls the tune today just like it was yesterday.
I told y’all already: what was coming is the USA version of XX Congress of CPSU. The kind of a show on which the thieves smile and say they found all that money just lying on the ground and as honest people are totally willing to support PSA reminding the proles to not be so careless, the fattest blood-splattered ghouls belch and swear they ended up at the table where human meat is served because they were deceived, and so on.
Even if the real conference cannot be made public due to nature of the participants (they rank above participants of the Zoom call leaked into NY Times How Communists Planned for Doomsday, otherwise Facebook would ban mentions of Benford’s Law again and y’all would get another 4 years of Biden), it’s necessarily replayed by the approved actors in all the puppet theaters, thus its decisions are mostly obvious and will be greeted with unanimous approval.
It’s not some sort of a coup. It’s just the new policy.
For another mighty column of theology scrapped as no longer serving its purpose, see: Mark Carney’s Watershed Davos Speech Signals Elite Schism. Of course, «he revolted against the dictates of his own clan» is the result of Simplicius being foolish enough to believe that somehow Trump actually rules USA, etc. LOL. No, Mark Carney follows the newest Politburo line. He is one of the people who get to keep good seats after the turn and perhaps get to be the Bold New Adopters in the official BS for the duration of — whatever the next show MiniTru will puke out.
I think it appropriate that in Dante’s Inferno, the Ninth Circle of Hell (Cocytus) is frozen, and is especially associated with treachery against God, where the souls of those who betrayed their homeland, kin, or benefactors ae punished. Satan (Lucifer) is trapped in the center of this final inner circle, frozen up to his waist in ice, and perpetually chews on the heads of historical traitors including Judas Iscariot, Marcus Junius Brutus, and Gaius Cassius Longinus.