Climate Liberation Day: EPA's Endangerment Reversal and the Pushback Against CO₂ Regulation

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In a landmark shift dubbed Climate Liberation Day, the EPA has repealed the 2009 endangerment finding that classified greenhouse gases like CO₂ as threats to public health. Critics argue this reversal liberates Americans from what they call "climate imperialism"—federal overreach into consumer choice and energy policy. The episode unpacks the science, politics, and economics behind the EPA’s authority, the debate over CO₂’s impact, and longstanding climate narratives. With sharp commentary on ethanol subsidies, government land use, and the politics of pollution, the message is clear: it's time to rethink the foundations of modern environmental regulation.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
They're calling it Climate Liberation Day. Yeah, Environmental Protection Agency
declared and decreed yesterday. Well it's Tuesday, Climate liberation Day,
yep liberation from climate imperialism. Basically repealing the two thousand

(00:36):
and nine endangerment finding for greenhouse gas missions. It's going
to make it harders for the offense to dictate what
kind of car and you know what, basically what you're
supposed to buy, which they've wanted to do for a
long time. Basically, the EPA, what they're doing right now
is trying to undo what Congress never gave the agency

(01:01):
the authority to do, regulate greenhouse gases. Okay, the Clean
Air Act, authorized from the Journal today authorizes the EPA
to regulate pollutants such as ozone, particulate matter, sol far dioxide,
and others that may reasonably be anticipated to endanger health

(01:22):
or welfare. Now you go to a Supreme Court decision
in two thousand and seven saying that greenhouse gases could
qualify as pollutants under a reading of the law. They're going, okay,
that the EPA must regulate them if they finds they

(01:43):
endanger the public. Then in two thousand and nine, Barack
the Magnificent said, ah, it's CO two is dangerous. It's
dangerous out there do all sorts of problems CO two
to Again, there's how how CO two is? It's it's everywhere.

(02:13):
How is it danger I'm breathing it out, by the way,
idiocracy reference here, it's what plants crave. Again, we keep
going over the old formula from for photosynthesis, which you
learned back in sixth grade. CO two. Plants crave CEO two.

(02:34):
They need CEO two. They live off CO two. Basically,
the Energy Department published a analysis. Actually one of the
scientists in this was actually one of Obama's scientists, and
again they the idea that CO two is causing all

(02:57):
sorts of problems and needs to be regulated by the
EPA is nonsensical. Okay. CO two is again they're comparing
it to particulate matter, and CO two is orderless, does
not affect visibility, has no toxic toxicological effects at ambient levels.

(03:18):
Higher levels of CO two in the air from fossil
fuels won't make you sick. Again, they keep telling you
that it makes the air dirtier. Gavin Newsomer, Trump was
making America smoggy again. No, no, no, carbon dioxide has
does not cause smock, does not cause smog. Governor. Sorry, listen,

(03:47):
it's funny. They just did a went back and they
did a major and they never really report on this stuff,
digging way into the ice in Antarctica and checking CO
two levels and what the temperature or is it a
certain period of time, And again it was much warmer
periods than we're at right now, much warmer periods. And

(04:11):
I've talked about how you know, during the Renaissance the
earth was so warm and they were actually growing decent
wine in the UK. Well, again it was the Roman
problem was No, it wasn't Renaissance. I'm sorry, but yeah,
they can actually grow wine at that period of time.
It was warm enough to do so it's nonsensical. Again,

(04:37):
a lot a lot of money, a lot of money
was made off of this racket, A lot of our
tax dollars sent in all of these different directions. I
kind of hope that this is just a start, This
is just a start in dismantling all of this climate nonsense.
And here, I'm a big time conservative. I'm totally against

(04:59):
what some Republicans are pushing for and selling off all
these government lands to developers here, there and everywhere. No, no, sorry,
I'm all about all about protecting habitats. Don't need it,
it's not necessary. However, you know the dumb things that

(05:19):
we do that make our environment worse. Another one. Throw
into this ethanol. Ethanol. You know you want to talk
about I want to talk about a shady cash cow business,
certain farmers making loot off. This makes no sense whatsoever,
zero sense. Let's put food into cars, get rid of that, slowly,

(05:41):
but surely, start dismantling all the bs. It's difficult, it's
difficult again. You know, these these entrenched businesses, they write
nice checks to politicians. Watchdog on Wall Street dot com