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GREENHOUSE GASES WILL NO LONGER BE REGULATED BY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT
Feb. 16, 2026
by Tammie Sloup, Illinois Farm Bureau's FarmWeek.com
Bloomington, IL -- The greenhouse gases emitted from sources like cars, trucks and power plants will no longer be regulated by the federal government.
President Donald Trump and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin announced Thursday the elimination of both the Obama-era 2009 Greenhouse Gas (GHG) "endangerment finding" and all subsequent federal GHG emission standards for all vehicles and engines of model years 2012 to 2027 and beyond.
The endangerment finding provided the legal and scientific underpinning for the federal government to regulate the emission of greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane into the atmosphere.
The agency concluded the Clean Air Act does not provide statutory authority for EPA to prescribe motor vehicle and engine emission standards in the manner previously utilized, including for the purpose of addressing global climate change, and therefore has no legal basis for the endangerment finding and resulting regulations. EPA contends decisions of such significant policy scope should be made exclusively by Congress.
Speaking at the White House, the president called the elimination of the finding the "single largest deregulatory action in American history."
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