When you sell your soul to the highest bidders, your new masters will exact payment in diverse currencies. One such payment was made on July 29, 2025. Intent on turning back the tides of change, the said Master of Industry seeks to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding regarding greenhouse gases under section 202(a) of the EPA Clean Air Act. 

On that day in July at an auto dealership in Indiana, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin made the grand announcement. Also present were US Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, as well as several Indiana officials: the Governor, Attorney General, and Secretary of Energy and Natural Resources. If finalized, the proposal would repeal all greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines, and other sources.

“With this proposal, the Trump EPA is proposing to end sixteen years of uncertainty for automakers and American consumers,” said EPA Administrator Zeldin.“In our work so far, many stakeholders have told me that the Obama and Biden EPAs twisted the law, ignored precedent, and warped science to achieve their preferred ends and stick American families with hundreds of billions of dollars in hidden taxes every single year. We heard loud and clear the concern that EPA’s GHG [Greenhouse Gases] emissions standards themselves, not carbon dioxide which the Finding never assessed independently, was the real threat to Americans’ livelihoods. If finalized, rescinding the Endangerment Finding and resulting regulations would end $1 trillion or more in hidden taxes on American businesses and families.” [Emphasis is mine.]

[Note to readers: Carbon dioxide comprises over 79% of all greenhouse gas emissions.]

For their part, the auto industry promises to give us “more safe and affordable cars.” The American Trucking Association promises a decrease in “the cost of living on all products that trucks deliver.”  

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