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12 februari 2026 23:44 |
Drill baby, drill. Trump draait alle milieuwetten terug
Het is zover, hun fossiele industrie mag weer naar hartelust vervuilen en de mensen vergiftigen. Dus alles wat fossiel verbrandt.
Trumps admin draait alles terug naar de 60ies.
USA stapt volledig uit het klimaatverdrag en verbreekt de banden met het IPCC.
"Een milieukrimineel" Lee Zeldin is nu baas bij het federaal milieu-agentschap EPA.
Alle giftige uitlaatgassen zijn nu weer "proper verklaard", ook broeikasgassen zoals CO2 kunnen de pot op.
Klimaatcritici krijgen de sleutelposities. Klimaatwetenschappers kunnen de pot op.
Fossiele brandstoffen worden wel duurder, want de staat en fossiele industrie moet eraan verdienen. Ook steenkool enz...
De vraag van allerhande fossiel zal alvast sterk toenemen wat de prijs nog wat meer opdrijft.
Of "Drill baby, drill" het moto van Trump wordt omgezet.
Citaat:
https://electrek.co/2026/02/12/epa-s...espite-outcry/
EPA finalizes illegal dirty air plan to hike fuel costs 76c/gal, despite public outcry
| Feb 12 2026
In July, the US Environmental Protection Agency proposed a plan to delete its scientific finding recognizing that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health, with the goal of making cars less efficient, deadlier and more costly. Public comments widely opposed the plan, but now before the agency has barely even started reading those comments, it announced today that it’s going through with its illegal plan anyway.
(Update: This article has been updated to reflect that the finalization was announced in a press conference today)
To recap: At issue is the EPA’s “Endangerment Finding,” which is the scientific basis of EPA’s regulation of harmful greenhouse gases. The endangerment finding acknowledges that greenhouse gases are harmful to human health, recognizing a scientific fact that every serious person has known for a long time – but now it was at least codified into federal procedure.
The Endangerment Finding focused specifically on carbon dioxide (CO2), methane (CH4), sulfur hexaflouride (SF6), hydroflourocarbons (HFCs), nitrous oxide (N2O), and perfluourocarbons (PFCs, now more commonly known as PFAS or “forever chemicals”), all of which we are certain cause climate change and harm humans.
And, in fact, the EPA is required to regulate these pollutants by the Clean Air Act. But why would we ever let that get in the way of oil industry profits?
Lee Zeldin finalizes plan to poison you and raise your fuel costs
Despite that legal requirement, Lee Zeldin – a fraudster placed into the position of chief saboteur of the EPA by a convicted felon who sought a billion-dollar bribe from the oil industry while running for an office he is Constitutionally barred from holding – ihas announced the finalization of his plan to repeal this finding today, flying in the face of law, science, public health and American economic interests.
To be clear: scientific facts remain facts, regardless of the feelings of oil-bought saboteurs like Zeldin. Climate change is still happening, and it is still caused by humans, primarily through the burning of fossil fuels.
Zeldin’s stated purpose for his action is because if the finding is gone, it will allow him to roll back other life- and money-saving vehicle efficiency regulations. He wants to revert those regulations because they constrain the fossil fuel industry – which has given him hundreds of thousands of dollars in bribes over his political career.
The specific regulations that Zeldin has his eyes on are automotive regulations put in place by the EPA under President Biden. According to the government’s own numbers, these regulations stand to save 2,000 lives per year and save Americans over $100 billion dollars per year in fuel and health costs – along with over 7 billion tons of carbon reduction, the equivalent of hundreds of coal plants.
But republicans want to go further than this, and according to one analysis the plans sought by them could cost Americans $310 billion in higher costs, $710 billion in lost GDP, 110,000 lost jobs annually, and 17,000 deaths. Another analysis, using EPA’s own estimated of mortality from pollutants, found the rollbacks sought could cause 50,000 premature deaths.
This is perhaps why Zeldin recently moved to stop considering the health and human life costs of regulations, to take attention off his plan to murder thousands of Americans.
When he first announced his illegal plan to kill Americans and cost all of us more money, Zeldin was joined by Chris Wright, a censorship advocate and former oil CEO who is currently the titular head of the Department of Energy. In April, Wright signed off on a DoE report which said the rollbacks sought by Zeldin would raise gas prices by 76 cents per gallon, showing that the people behind this plan know it will increase your costs and yet are shoving it down your throat anyway.
The reason gas prices would rise is because of higher demand. If vehicles are less efficient, not only will they burn more gasoline thus costing you more money and also causing more pollution, more dependency on foreign oil and the conflicts involved in stealing it, and higher health costs for everyone, but that gasoline will be more expensive because that’s what happens to prices of products when demand rises.
And the proceeds from those higher gas prices aren’t going to anything societally beneficial, they’re rather going to line the pockets of oil elites. The EDF says the total transfer of wealth from you to those elites could be as high as $1.4 trillion – and that’s just fuel costs, health and climate costs could be up to $4.7 trillion additionally, using EPA’s own health cost estimate model.
Wright’s office offered a junk report from a handpicked committee of climate deniers in an attempt to build a case for the EPA’s action. But that report was found to be wrong in 100 ways, including by the author of one of the cited studies, who immediately pointed out DoE misinterpreted their study. Even an internal DoE review found the report “misleading” and “not factual.” Also, the formation of the group that wrote the report was recently ruled illegal in federal court.
So, even the stretched justifications offered for the plan are steeped in the ignorance we have come accustomed to since last January.
And, of course, the plan will benefit China. As we have already seen, domestic manufacturing investment has tanked over the course of the last year, with tens of billions in investment and tens of thousands of jobs already lost. That investment will go to a country which isn’t pulling back on its EV plans, and will be more ready for the present moment of rapidly growing global EV sales, while the US languishes thanks to republicans.
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Citaat:
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/nl/2026/02...or-amerikaans/
President Trump gaat regelgeving intrekken die basis vormt voor Amerikaans klimaatbeleid
De Amerikaanse president Donald Trump gaat een tekst intrekken die in de VS wordt beschouwd als een hoeksteen van de strijd tegen klimaatverandering. Dat heeft Karoline Leavitt, woordvoerder van het Witte Huis, aangekondigd.
Belga, Gepubliceerd:
di 10 feb. 21u25
Trump zal overgaan tot de intrekking van de zogenoemde 'Endangerment Finding', die in 2009 door toenmalig president Barack Obama was uitgevaardigd.
Dat besluit stelde vast dat 6 broeikasgassen een gevaar zijn voor de volksgezondheid. Het diende als basis voor talloze maatregelen van de Amerikaanse federale regering in de strijd tegen de klimaatverandering.
Overwinning voor olie- en gasindustrie
Volgens de krant The Wall Street Journal kan de beslissing van Trump worden gezien als een belangrijke overwinning voor de olie- en gasindustrie. Die sector voert al jarenlang strijd tegen regels die de uitstoot van broeikasgassen beperken.
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