The $87 Trillion Bill That Comes From Denying Reality
Even putting aside science, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin’s decision to reverse the finding that greenhouse-gas emissions are a danger to the public makes no economic sense.
Bad at math.
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You probably wouldn’t set $87 trillion on fire to save $1 trillion. But then again, you probably aren’t Administrator Lee Zeldin’s Environmental Protection Agency.
The now ironically named agency announced plans on Tuesday to renounce its 2009 finding that greenhouse-gas emissions are a danger to the public that needs regulation. As I wrote last week, this plan not only mocks established science, it also appears to be illegal, given the Supreme Court’s 2007 ruling in Massachusetts v. EPA establishing the basis for this “endangerment finding,” along with Congress writing the idea into law several times in the 2022 Inflation Reduction Act.