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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Trump Administration’s New Take on Climate Change

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

Society & Culture, News

42.7K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 24 minutes

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The Environmental Protection Agency moves to repeal the 2009 "endangerment" finding that underpins federal regulation of greenhouse-gas emissions as pollutants. Plus, the Energy Department releases a report that reviews the science of climate change, but with an emphasis on uncertainty, and without the catastrophic outlook that is now in common circulation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal, this is Potomac Watch.

0:23.4

The Trump administration moves to repeal the so-called endangerment finding, which is a linchpin of regulations of federal greenhouse gas emissions.

0:34.3

Meantime, the Energy Department releases a report with a new view of climate change from the federal

0:40.2

government. Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal. We are joined today by my colleagues,

0:48.2

columnist Alicia Finley, and Kim Strassel. The endangerment finding is what underlies a lot of federal regulations of

0:57.6

greenhouse gas emissions. But the Environmental Protection Agency is now moving to undo that.

1:04.1

Let's listen to Energy Secretary Chris Wright discussing that this week.

1:08.0

When I heard the endangerment finding announcement 17 years ago that they had found,

1:13.6

as someone who was already involved in the climate discussion, was already involved in the energy world,

1:17.6

clearly they didn't look at the data, they didn't understand climate change,

1:21.6

they didn't appreciate how energy works, but this ruling happened.

1:25.6

And it happened because they couldn't do it through the House and

1:28.9

the Senate and the presidency, the normal lawmaking process. They found a backdoor way to take away

1:35.3

your freedom and to make your life more expensive and shrink your life opportunities.

1:41.4

Alicia, give us some of the background here. What is this endangerment finding?

1:46.3

And why is it so important to a lot of the regulations that have taken place over those

1:51.4

past 17 years in Washington?

1:53.4

So this endangerment finding goes back to 2007 Supreme Court case in which you had many

2:00.1

Democratic states sued the Bush administration

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