Trump Admin Reportedly On Precipice Of Axing Climate Agenda Cornerstone
- February 10, 2026
Audrey Streb, The Daily Caller
The Trump administration is planning to repeal this week an Obama-era and cornerstone climate regulation, according to The Wall Street Journal.
The 2009 Endangerment Finding allows the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to regulate greenhouse gasses — including carbon dioxide — under the Clean Air Act. Trump administration officials, speaking with anonymity, told WSJ that the final rule is set to be made public this week, and will be centered on repealing emissions standards for motor vehicles.
The final rule would also reportedly repeal related compliance programs and would pave the way for repealing power plant emissions standards, though it does not directly target them, according to the WSJ. The Endangerment Finding has been used by Democrats for years to impose harsh climate regulations and repealing it would be a win for consumer choice and affordability, energy policy experts previously told the Daily Caller News Foundation.
Michael Chamberlain, director of the government watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust, told the DCNF that “the endangerment finding implemented by the Obama administration will likely go down in history as a textbook example of government overreach.”
“For such a monumental action, that gave the federal government virtually unprecedented power to intrude on the lives of its citizens, evidence we have seen shows that the officials responsible for enacting it acted with a pre-determined motive before all the data had been considered,” Chamberlain said. “The power and the politics were placed firmly ahead of the science, making the finding both legally suspect and scientifically fraught.”