Affordable and Reliable Energy Powers Prosperity

Originally published by RealClearEnergy.

Energy powers life. Affordable and reliable energy powers prosperity. That’s not just a slogan. It is a truth that shows up in the price of a new car, the size of a utility bill, and the cost of filling up your tank. But, for too long, a costly and unscientific climate ideology has skewed our energy policies.

Since the Obama EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding was issued, this ideology-over-science mindset has driven up costs and pushed American families ever closer to energy poverty. Recently, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin pushed back by repealing the infamous ruling—a move that will slash regulatory costs and cut new-car prices. The result will be more opportunities for energy producers and manufacturers — and rising prosperity for American consumers.

Few regulatory actions have stifled American prosperity more than the 2009 Endangerment Finding. Early in Barack Obama’s first term, regulators determined that carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases could “reasonably be anticipated to endanger” public health. With that decision, they claimed the authority to manage the energy we need to power every sector of the American economy. The Endangerment Finding offered unelected bureaucrats at the EPA the legal trigger to implement sweeping federal mandates on cars, trucks, power plants, food, and energy producers nationwide — all without a single vote from Congress.

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