Trump Buries Obama’s Climate Policy
American Thinker,
by
Thomas Kolbe
Original Article
Posted By: Mercedes44,
2/14/2026 6:27:28 AM
The U.S. government is dismantling the legal foundation of numerous climate protection measures from the era of President Barack Obama. The economy is being freed from the shackles of CO2 fixation. For European businesses, this will soon translate into noticeably higher competitive pressure.
February 12, 2026, marks the end of a political era in the United States. On Thursday, President Donald Trump, together with EPA administrator Lee Zeldin, repealed the so-called Endangerment Finding. This is one of the largest deregulation measures in recent U.S. history.
Legally, the move primarily deregulates the EPA framework. It is not an executive order or a law passed by Congress.
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
Rumblehog 2/14/2026 7:39:37 AM (No. 2068432)
There are a lot more of Obama's "policies" that deserve a similar demise... especially those related to environment, student loans, and healthcare. Seems that everything the "Magic Negro" touched turned into "gold," but only for Corporations and NGOs that directly benefitted from such policies.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Venturer 2/14/2026 7:41:01 AM (No. 2068433)
NOTHING Obama did is any good for the residents of the United States.
Joe Biden was second worst president in history. Second to Obama who actually got his third term from Biden. Obama definitely the worst. And him not actually being legally eligible for the job which IMO one day after we are all dead historians will agree.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
BaldGuy 2/14/2026 7:49:00 AM (No. 2068440)
I just wonder why didn't we do this day 1??
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/14/2026 8:45:42 AM (No. 2068460)
FTA: "Legally, the move primarily deregulates the EPA framework. It is not an executive order or a law passed by Congress. It takes immediate effect but will need congressional confirmation to remain fully secure, avoiding legal side battles and denying NGOs a public platform."
So if Congress doesn't do its job - this may come back to life.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
chagrined 2/14/2026 9:12:02 AM (No. 2068475)
I made the mistake of going to The Weather Channel early this morning just to see if anything was heading our way on radar. The first thing I heard: "the Winter Olympics won't be the same in a few years due to climate change". Man, oh man! I gotta remember to NEVER turn that channel on again. They mentioned some other climate change drivel before I could change the channel. How annoying those people are!
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
janjan 2/14/2026 9:41:44 AM (No. 2068488)
#3 This is discussed in the article.
This is huge. It is a complete lifting of the fraudulent climate shackles Obama put on Americans. Indeed the Democrats will try to resurrect it if they win power back but it won’t be easy.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
jeffkinnh 2/14/2026 9:49:00 AM (No. 2068489)
BO took climate fables and codified them. Since then, the "science", fake as it was to start, has fallen apart. However, the legal framework dragged on, preventing further careful examination of real science. The argument had been decided by fiat.
Trump's change will accomplish immediate regulatory relief but it will reopen the scientific discussion that has trended away for the support for climate threats. It will be almost impossible to rebuild the lie of "consensus" given that all the research is trending away from an existential threat to an annoyance, at best. And even that effect is likely to be caused by events outside the influences of mankind and beyond our control. We will just have to live with it.
This is also likely to be a cautionary tale about mixing science and government. Using dubious science to drive government actions is a bad idea because government corrupts science by funding research that confirms outcomes that government wants.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
cor-vet 2/14/2026 10:19:41 AM (No. 2068498)
Has anyone checked to see what his majesty, judge Boasberg thinks about this? I'm sure he, or someone like him, will be weighing in shortly!
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
felixcat 2/14/2026 11:10:43 AM (No. 2068516)
Re #5 - I rarely turn to the Weather Channel because everything is climate change but went there this morning and for Valentine's Day, the comment was made that because of climate change, there may be less cacao for all those chocolate hearts. argh...
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
Kafka2 2/14/2026 11:40:53 AM (No. 2068526)
President Trump and the EPA Administrator repealed the Endangerment Finding that the Obama EPA used to justify numerous environmental regulations. The repeal is not an executive order or a law passed by Congress. But, neither was the Endangerment Finding. It was a political policy statement that could best be described as junk science.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
NotaBene 2/14/2026 2:12:07 PM (No. 2068560)
CO2 is plant food. This drives a stake into the Communist Global domination. Thank you!
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
DVC 2/14/2026 3:38:29 PM (No. 2068581)
It is impossible to overstate how gigantic the effect of removing this fraudulent "scientific finding"....which was entirely political and NOT flowing from any legitimate science. At best, the "science" behind it was based on 'computer simulations', which have zero calibration, no testing whatsoever, so can be literally written to put out ANY desired results.
Unleashing power generation, automobile design, appliances and even things as prosaic as lawn mowers, yard tractors, chain saws and weed trimmers will be less expensive, work better and overall....going more back to the 'good old days' of say 20 years ago before the Dems began to literally wreck everything.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
thefield 2/14/2026 7:43:18 PM (No. 2068634)
#3 once a rule becomes official, a new study has to be done which takes three months to eighteen months to do at the fastest. Then It has to be posted for comment and challenges for six months. Then it becomes final.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
doctorfixit 2/14/2026 8:12:10 PM (No. 2068638)
I am eternally grateful to President Trump for undoing the Obama-Biden legacy of Evil and Corruption, esp. Climate Fraud.
We still have to see a lot more dismantling of the Deep State, esp. in the so-called "intelligence community" aka Gestapo Secret Police.
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