{"id":28152,"date":"2025-07-28T18:59:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:59:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28152\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T18:59:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T18:59:10","slug":"epa-climate-endangerment-finding-choice-shouldnt-be-permanent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/28152\/","title":{"rendered":"EPA Climate Endangerment Finding Choice Shouldn&#8217;t Be Permanent"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">In March, the humor publication The Onion ran a story with the headline \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theonion.com\/epa-to-drop-e-p-from-name-1819567767\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">EPA to Drop \u2018E,\u2019 \u2018P\u2019 From Name<\/a>.\u201d Sometimes things are funny because they\u2019re true. Other times satire buckles beneath the weight of reality. This was arguably an example of the latter: About a week earlier, I had run a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/opinion\/articles\/2025-03-14\/epa-decided-protecting-the-environment-is-just-too-much?sref=ZtdQlmKR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" class=\"media-ui-Link_link-tVkXhPLPofs-\" data-component=\"link\">column<\/a> for this very serious publication with a similar headline. <\/p>\n<p class=\"media-ui-Paragraph_text-SqIsdNjh0t0-\" data-component=\"paragraph\">At most, there\u2019s only gallows humor to be derived from the move by the Environmental Protection Agency under President Donald Trump and Administrator Lee Zeldin to abandon any pretense of protecting the environment. Human suffering and economic loss will inevitably follow. The only question now is how much damage \u201cThe Agency\u201d will be allowed to do. The good news is that this dangerous state of affairs doesn\u2019t have to be permanent.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In March, the humor publication The Onion ran a story with the headline \u201cEPA to Drop \u2018E,\u2019 \u2018P\u2019&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":28153,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[463,64,63,68,20097,75,19495,9959,486,16570,128,1049,27064,26847],"class_list":["post-28152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-environment","tag-architecture","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-climate-change","tag-donald-john-trump","tag-environment","tag-greenhouse-gases","tag-law","tag-massachusetts","tag-regulation","tag-science","tag-supreme-court","tag-u-s-environmental-protection-agency","tag-view"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28152","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28152\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}