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HEADLINE: Trump EPA Faces Uphill Battle to Reverse Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding GUEST NAME: Jonathan Adler SUMMARY: The Trump administration's EPA attempts to reverse the 2009 "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Re

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 19 September 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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HEADLINE: Trump EPA Faces Uphill Battle to Reverse Greenhouse Gas Endangerment Finding
GUEST NAME: Jonathan Adler
SUMMARY: The Trump administration's EPA attempts to reverse the 2009 "endangerment finding" for greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act. Recent Supreme Court rulings, including Loper Bright, ironically make reversal more difficult by eliminating Chevron deference. Courts will focus on statutory language and prior decisions, requiring the EPA to justify reversing decades of statements.
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0:30.9

under the Trump administration, is very ambitious. I learned this from a new essay at Civitas Outlook at Civitas Institute,

0:40.4

from Professor Jonathan Adler, the Tazewell-Taylor, Professor of Law, William and Mary Law School.

0:46.5

Professor, a very good evening to you. This is about the word endangerment. I paid attention

0:51.6

when I read that endangerment. That's old-fashioned way of saying what might

0:56.4

happen. Danger, danger, don't go near it. But it turns on the EPA's ambition under the new

1:03.3

administration to take on something that was fixed, if I understand correctly, for at least a

1:08.8

decade. That is the ability of the EPA to declare that there is

1:15.3

reasonable expectation of harm or health or bad results from the climate of greenhouse gases.

1:26.7

And that was fixed some years ago.

1:29.3

So they're taking on something that you identify as very difficult and challenging.

1:35.9

Why so, Professor?

1:36.9

Good evening to you.

1:38.1

Well, good evening.

1:39.2

So this all has its roots in the Clean Air Act, which Congress enacted in 1970 and last revised in 1990.

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