From Kevin Mooney, originally published by Daily Caller:

Donald Trump’s abrupt shift back toward an “America First” energy policy has predictably caused heads to explode as climate policies gradually give way to the free market.

Do an internet search on “Trump and endangerment finding” or “EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and endangerment finding,” or some combination of the two, and a slew of faulty scientific claims will pop up, compliments of green pressure groups and their allies in the media.

The Environmental Defense Fund, for example, claims that “our health and safety” and the “quality of our everyday lives” are at stake if the Trump administration prevails in its deregulatory efforts. Other notable contributions to the histrionics come from legal activists with the Center for Biological Diversity who accuse the Trump administration of exercising “malice toward the planet.”

Both outfits insist that the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA)  2009 Endangerment Finding, which identified carbon dioxide as a pollutant, proceeds from sound science when it does not. The finding came about in response to the U.S. Supreme Court 2007 ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA that said the agency had the authority to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. The court ruling opened the door for President Obama’s EPA to put its climate agenda on steroids.

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