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Commentary By Judge Glock

Trump’s About To Cancel Obama’s Most Outrageous Power Grab

Governance Energy, Climate Change

President Trump is on the brink of ordering a massive policy shakeup — “the largest act of deregulation in the history of the United States,” says Environmental Protection Agency chief Lee Zeldin.

When Trump’s EPA orders the end of a 2009 finding that greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide are a threat to public health, it will halt 16 years of federal efforts to mandate vast changes in American life without legal justification.

The so-called Endangerment Finding led to a host of regulations whose estimated costs exceeded a trillion dollars.

Continue reading the entire piece at the New York Post

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Judge Glock is the director of research and a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute and a contributing editor at City Journal. 

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