The EPA Ends the 'Endangerment' Finding, a Linchpin of U.S. Climate Regulation
WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch
The Wall Street Journal
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Access to affordable credit helps me pay my employees, but I don't really need it. |
| 0:05.0 | Infliction is killing me! |
| 0:08.0 | But who cares? Big retailers are making record profits! |
| 0:11.0 | That's why we support the Durban Marshall Credit Card Bill! |
| 0:15.0 | See? Banks and credit unions help small businesses make payroll. |
| 0:18.0 | This bill would cut the vital resources they need. |
| 0:25.0 | While increasing megastore profits, they deserve it. Don't they? |
| 0:29.1 | Tell Congress, stop the Durban Marshall money grab for corporate megastores. |
| 0:31.2 | Paid for it by the Electronic Payments Coalition. |
| 0:38.8 | From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch. |
| 0:44.2 | The Trump administration enacts a sweeping climate deregulation, |
| 0:49.4 | as the Environmental Protection Agency says it lacks the legal authority to manage carbon and other greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. |
| 0:53.3 | But is the next stop the federal courts and perhaps |
| 0:55.8 | even the U.S. Supreme Court? Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We're joined |
| 1:01.8 | today by my colleagues on the journal's opinion pages, columnists Alicia Finley and Kim Strassel. |
| 1:08.2 | The EPA is calling it the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history, |
| 1:14.8 | suggesting it will save Americans more than $1.3 trillion. |
| 1:19.5 | On Thursday, the agency pulled out a linchpin of U.S. climate regulation, |
| 1:24.6 | rescinding the so-called endangerment finding, a 2009 action that had declared |
| 1:30.2 | greenhouse gas emissions a threat to public health and safety. Let's start with EPA |
| 1:35.2 | administrator Lee Zeldin explaining his view of this move. We're not going to rely on pessimistic, |
| 1:41.4 | bad assumptions that were made in 2009 that have proven to be inaccurate. |
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