Trump aims to dismantle flawed climate policy to protect grid reliability and save taxpayers trillions
By willowt // 2025-07-24
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  • The Trump administration advances repeal of the Endangerment Finding — the linchpin of failed Democratic climate policies since 2009.
  • Repeal would halt costly overreach causing coal plant closures, inflationary energy prices and grid instability.
  • DOE warns blackouts could rise 100-fold as unreliable renewables and data centers strain capacity.
  • Critics confirm EPA’s science was biased, outdated and ignored CO₂ benefits for agriculture.
  • Future hinges on resisting climate orthodoxy or risking economic collapse from crumbling energy systems.
On July 21, the Trump administration took decisive action to revoke the Endangerment Finding — a 2009 EPA rule weaponized to justify radical climate policies that have destabilized America’s electricity grid and burdened households with soaring energy costs. By repealing this foundational mandate, the administration aims to abandon a model built on politicized science, which prioritized theoretical climate goals over real-world energy reliability, job losses and grid vulnerability. As the Department of Energy (DOE) now warns of catastrophic grid failures and a 100-fold increase in blackouts by 2030 due to renewable overreach, Trump’s move emerges as an urgent lifeline for preventing energy catastrophe.

The Endangerment Finding: A policy built on fraudulent science

The Endangerment Finding was never about science — it was a politically convenient tool to justify sweeping overreach. Rooted in the IPCC’s outdated 2007 reports and cherry-picked data, it falsely claimed CO₂ threatened public health while ignoring the documented benefits of atmospheric CO₂ for agricultural productivity. “The rule was an ideological contrivance,” declares Mandy Gunasekara, former EPA Chief of Staff. “It weaponized junk science to push unreliable energy, destroy millions of American jobs and saddle families with higher electricity bills. The result? A grid teetering toward collapse.” Ignoring real-world evidence:
  • The EPA’s projections of climate “disasters” failed to materialize.
  • CO₂’s role in crop growth was deliberately downplayed to justify radical policies.
  • Regional grids lost 72,000 MW of coal-fired baseload power — a foundation no renewable can replace.

Grid instability: The human cost of climate policy extremism

The DOE’s stark warning about blackouts is no exaggeration. With data centers alone forecast to demand an additional 52,000 MW by 2030 and wind/solar output erratic, experts predict 430 hours of annual power shortages. PJM Interconnection — the energy grid serving 65 million people — notes the crisis “isn’t theoretical.” “The math is simple: Swapping reliable power with unreliable renewables guarantees blackouts,” states energy analyst Isaac Orr. “24-hour backup power only comes from coal, gas, or nuclear. Remove those, and you’re left with a system that fails when the wind stops and the sun sets.”
  • Renewables replace only 18 percent of retiring coal’s capacity, leaving grids without “keep-the-lights-on” generation.
  • Pyrrhic green energy costs: Taxpayer-funded subsidies for “climate-friendly” policies add trillions to energy bills while failing to deliver promised grid stability.

The political battle for America’s energy future

The repeal process faces legal hurdles and partisan resistance, but the stakes are clear. If Democrats reclaim power, they’ll revive the same policies that chased factories overseas, inflated utility bills and made blackouts a certainty. “It’s a classic ideological clash,” warns Heritage Foundation analyst Diana Furchtgott-Roth. “But after trillions wasted on unreliable energy, Americans are ready for honest solutions. We can’t erase the Endangerment Finding’s damage overnight, but we must act now to rebuild a grid rooted in reliability, not climate alarmism.”

Choosing stability over climate fiction

The Endangerment Finding’s repeal marks a pivotal moment: Will America prioritize fiscal discipline and energy security, or cling to failed climate dogma? Trump’s action puts first things first: keeping power flowing in hospitals, factories and households. While opponents warn of “climate doom” without fossil fuels, the real danger lies in ignoring grid realities. As former EPA transition leader Myron Ebell notes: “Politically correct energy choices don’t keep the lights on. It’s time to abandon Ideology First energy policies and finally get serious about reliability.” Sources for this article include: TheExpose.com DailyCaller.com Substack.com
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