FULL ANNOUNCEMENT: President Trump Declare New Era for U.S. Energy & Environmental Policy — AC15

[00:00:00] Speaker 1: as big as it gets they tell me and it's an honor to be here with a terrific person who's worked so hard on this and some other terrific people thank you very much but i'm pleased to be joined today by epa administrator lee zeldin who you all know and to announce the single largest deregulatory action in american history that's a big statement in american history and i think we can add the words by far under the process just completed by the epa we are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding a disastrous obama era policy that severely damaged the american auto industry and massively drove up prices for american consumers prices went up incredibly for a worse product this action will eliminate over 1.3 trillion dollars of regulatory costs and help bring car prices tumbling down dramatically you're going to get a better car you're going to get a car that starts easier a car that works better for a lot less money in 2009 barack hussein obama his epa designated fossil fuels such as oil gas and other things that actually make factories rock and roll and other things drive very nicely as a threat to health and human welfare known as the endangerment finding this determination had no basis in fact had none whatsoever and it had no basis in law on the contrary over the generations fossil fuels have saved millions of lives and lifted billions of people out of poverty and all over the world and you see it with the blackouts all over where they don't use it where they went to wind intermittent wind which is weak and ineffective and very very costly most costly energy there is and people are dying because there was no air conditioning or there was no heating lots of other things bad things happen and yet this radical rule became the legal foundation for the green new scam one of the greatest scams in history probably as great maybe even greater than russia russia russia hoax etc which the obama and biden administration used to destroy countless jobs and the jobs have been just decimated although they're all coming back because of tariffs they're all coming back into our country at levels we've never seen before but it raised prices and caused immense harm to the u.s auto industry we thought irreparable but we've got them back coming back now i was in detroit as you know with ford and they had one of the earliest plants from the early 1900s and it was uh going to be closed down and then when i won they said let's keep it open for a little while let's see what happens and they just announced as you know they're going 24 hours around the clock with that same plant that was going to be closed because of what we've done for example under the endangerment finding they forced the hated start stop feature onto american consumers which unnecessarily shuts off a car's engine when you stop at a red light in other words the engine goes off that's great the endangerment finding was also used to impose the massive and really very expensive electric vehicle mandate expensive in the sense that nobody wanted it everybody was going to be forced to buy an electric car in a very short period of time even though you can't power the car because we would have to spend five trillion dollars on power stations that's all dead gone over these crippling restrictions were a major factor in driving up car prices to unprecedented levels and the car that you were getting was not nearly as good in four years under the biden administration the price of a new and used car rose more than 22 percent all to facilitate the green news scam without achieving any meaningful impact on the environment but making the car worse that is why effective immediately we are repealing the ridiculous endangerment finding and terminating all additional green emission standards imposed unnecessarily on vehicle models and engines between 2012 and 2027 and beyond this action will save american consumers trillions of dollars and will lower the average cost of a new vehicle by close to three thousand dollars think of that during my campaign i promised to cut 10 old regulations for every new regulation and we've exceeded that we've instead done it 10 regulations we were able to cut 129 so now we cut 129 so think of that i promised to cut 10 old regulations for every new one but we did more than 10 we did 129 it's something nobody can even believe it so we we did a lot of regulation cutting in the first administration a record nobody even close to it now we're actually exceeding it in this administration the biggest one yet that we've done is happening right now so perhaps no industry has benefited more from our historic deregulation campaign than the u.s auto industry we canceled the epa's absurd just totally absurd tailpipe emission standards which was a disaster for automobile manufacturing and revoked biden's emissions waiver that would have allowed california to regulate automobiles for the entire nation and they're crazy out in california they have nothing but trouble out there as you know that's why people are leaving in record numbers they also ended joe biden's extreme cafe emission standards saving the average american consumer much more than one thousand dollars when they buy a new car but now we're talking about close to three thousand dollars these regulation cuts combined with our tax cuts and tariffs are the reason why the world's largest automakers have announced that they're going to be spending in excess of 100 billion dollars in the united states in the next very short period of time building new auto plants we're bringing our auto plants assembly plants and factories roaring back to life not even mentioning ai and all of the other things we're building thousands of businesses in the united states and if you remember on my first day they said if i could ever get the dow up to 50 000 in my last year in other words in in the fourth year that it would be an unbelievable miracle but don't worry about it because it'll never happen they said and if i could get the s p up to 7 000 they said in the fourth year they said it will never happen let's not even talk about it i have things let's not even waste our time talking about well at the very end of my first year the dow hit 50 000 now it's over 50 000 and three days before that the s p had 7 000 so we didn't have to wait till the end of the fourth year we just waited till the end of the first year uh we've never had a country in a position like this and a lot of it's due to tariffs and a lot of it's due to the fact that we had a great election and a lot of good things have been done one of the good things i did was put lee zelden in charge of our environment so i'm going to ask lee to say a few words thank you very much [00:08:09] Speaker 2: thanks thank you mr president this is a big deal under president trump's leadership today the trump epa has finalized the single largest act of deregulation in the history of the united states of america referred to by some as the holy grail of federal regulatory overreach the 2009 obama epa endangerment finding is now eliminated this action will save american taxpayers over 1.3 trillion dollars what that means is lower prices more choices and an end of heavy-handed climate policies with today's announcement american families will save over 2400 vehicle 2400 for a new vehicle 16 years ago an ideological crusade within the obama administration set off the most costly regulatory power grab our country has ever experienced the 2009 obama epa endangerment finding led to trillions of dollars and regulations that strangled entire sectors of the united states economy including the american auto industry it claimed new powers over the vehicles we drive even though the best reading of the clean air act clearly states otherwise the obama and biden administrations used it to steamroll into existence a left-wing wish list of costly climate policies electric vehicle mandates and other requirements that assaulted consumer choice and affordability and who paid the biggest price hard-working families small businesses millions of americans who just want a reliable affordable car to get to work take their kids to school or go to church on sunday the endangerment finding and the regulations that were based on it didn't just regulate emissions it regulated and targeted the american dream and now the endangerment finding is hereby unlimited as well as all greenhouse gas emission standards that followed the red tape has been cut manufacturers will no longer be burdened by measuring compiling or reporting greenhouse gas emissions for vehicles and engines and the forced transition to electric vehicles is eliminated no longer will automakers be pressured to shift their fleets towards electric vehicles vehicles that are still sitting unsold on dealer lots all across america and as a cherry on top we are ending the federal government's push to get manufacturers to install that obama switch the almost universally despised start stop feature there will be no more climate participation trophies awarded to manufacturers for making americans cars die at every red light and stop sign it's over done finished under president trump's leadership vehicle manufacturers can once again build what americans want not what politicians and bureaucrats in washington demand president trump campaigned on reviving the auto industry and he continues to deliver win after win after win ending electric vehicle mandates getting rid of the biden cafe standards with secretary of transportation sean duffy and securing massive new u.s manufacturing investments and all the jobs that come with it affordable cars mean opportunity that means jobs health care education and mobility especially for working families and rural americans who rely on their vehicles every single day and this isn't just about making the american economy boom it's also about restoring the rule of law a fundamental principle of our great republic for years unelected bureaucrats twisted the clean air act into something it was never meant to be the obama administration twisted itself into some kind of mental pretzel to invoke authority it didn't have and to sidestep congress they claimed that six greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles some of which aren't even emitted from vehicles and trucks contribute some amount above zero to global climate change what they said endangered public health but their wild web of mental leaps isn't prescribed in federal statute the obama epa's house of cards upended the best reading of the clean air act as well as 50 years of epa precedent on what constitutes regulable air pollution in the 16 years in there that intervened the supreme court has established clear precedent in loper bright enterprises in west virginia versus epa and in light of these supreme court decisions and other developments upon his swearing in last year president trump immediately tasked on day one submitting requirements recommendations research on the legality and continued applicability of the 2009 endangerment finding and at trump's speed he wanted that research and recommendation turned around instantly we looked at the clean air act we looked at what the highest court in the land had said and we used a very simple metric if congress didn't authorize it epa shouldn't be doing it congress never voted for these climate mandates inside of section 202 of the clean air act if congress wants epa to regulate the heck out of greenhouse gases emitted from motor vehicles then congress can clearly make that the law which they haven't done for good reason today we dismantle the tactics and legal gymnastics used by the obama and biden administrations to backdoor their ideological agendas on the american people following the plain language of the law we have now realigned epa's rulemaking to reflect the clean air act exactly as it is written and as congress intended not as others might wish it to be were our predecessors focused on trying to make and please a few fear-mongering climate alarmists the trump epa is making decisions to benefit all americans based on common sense and reality and the american people are tired of paying the price of political games last november they voted for an administration that would listen to them they told us that the price of a newer safer vehicle was too high they told us they didn't want cars that shut off at every red light they told us dealers were sitting on lots filled with electric vehicles that nobody wanted were buying the trump epa listened we heard you and we acted and today's action does not change regulations on traditional air pollutants and air toxics this epa is committed to providing clean air for all americans powering the great american comeback is based on the singular focus of providing clean air land and water for all americans while harnessing the greatness of the american economy that's a big difference from our predecessor we believe that we can and must choose both if you want an electric vehicle buy one if you want a diesel truck then buy that if you want a gas powered vehicle or a hybrid well more power to you that's what freedom and choice look like we're restoring the rule of law we're grounding policy in reality we're giving power back to the american people and we're bringing back the american dream stronger than ever before epa will never waver on its core mission of protecting human health in the environment and this administration knows we can do that while ushering in the golden age of america to recap the 2009 obama epa endangerment finding and all greenhouse gas emission standards on light medium and heavy duty vehicles that followed is eliminated american families now will save over twenty four hundred vehicle twenty four hundred dollars for a new vehicle today the single largest act of deregulation in the history of the united states over 1.3 trillion dollars the elimination of the endangerment finding is signed sealed and delivered [00:16:44] Speaker 1: thank you lee that was long but good it was good maybe i should say great it was great and we appreciate it would you have anything to say russ please [00:17:01] Speaker 3: thank you mr president literally no other president would have done this to get at the foundations of the green new deal so tremendously excited that we are where we are today great work by lee i'm a little worried that this next year will be epa alone will be dereg east by the number of things that are beginning to come out of epa so great work to the team 1.3 trillion dollars in savings massive historical [00:17:26] Speaker 1: opportunity thank you thank you russ please would you like to speak worthy of it [00:17:34] Speaker 4: thank you mr president uh today is a historic day led by president trump's leadership uh no other president as russ said uh would have undertaken this um and at the speed we did it was a great team effort uh this is the the the the model of the trump administration everyone working together mission aligned [00:17:57] Speaker 1: and lee is also working on uh cleaning up the horrible situation with regard to farm equipment uh you could use john deere as an example and other companies uh where tractors are unbelievably expensive and don't work as well because of all of the environmental nonsense that was put on them also excavators any any equipment like that bulldozers uh caterpillar tractor would be a beneficiary i guess but the people are going to be a beneficiary because the equipment's going to be a lot less expensive and it's going to also most importantly it's going to work much better much better so we're working on that uh immediately as we speak we'll probably make it so that any of that equipment built in the united states will not have to go through this if it's built outside i think we'll probably leave the standard the same if people are going to send us equipment let them have that standard for whatever it's worth which is not much and uh i think that's a very big announcement too and we're going to see if we can get that done very quickly so that all of that equipment that we have made including lawnmowers etc we you won't have to go to the finest schools in the world in order to figure out how to operate it okay so uh any questions [00:19:21] Speaker 5: thank you for this and after this much supported move to roll back the former epa's endangered finding what additional steps do you plan on taking to scale back what many are calling climate industry scams specifically and secretary zelda knows about these wind turbines they're trying to bring to new york judges allowing them to be rebuilt right near your hometown in jamaica queens they're being called a national security threat for air traffic coming into the airport what could you do to make sure these [00:19:46] Speaker 1: things well we're trying to make sure it doesn't happen and we've basically stopped all windmills in this country it's the most expensive energy you can get they're all made in china a little bit in germany but mostly in china and we're putting them all over our fields and ruining the fields and killing the birds and all of this and the environmentalists say they like them but they really are a tremendous eyesore they've ruined europe has gone as you know it's gone to europe isn't even recognizable anymore between immigration and because of you know environmental things like the windmills which are taking over the people hate them the energy is by far the most expensive and we're fighting very hard to make sure that they don't get built i hope we don't have one