EPA endangerment finding: A misguided relic that must be repealed

What if a single regulatory decision could roll back the very progress that propelled America to global leadership? That’s exactly what happened in 2009, when the Obama administration’s endangerment finding declared carbon dioxide — a gas essential for life — a “pollutant.” In one stroke, the executive branch took a sledgehammer to the foundation laid by the industrial revolution, which built the world’s strongest economy and ushered in modern prosperity.

Fifteen years later, that misguided finding remains the shaky foundation for costly mandates such as former President Joe Biden’s electric vehicle rule, scheduled to take effect in 2027.