Emails obtained through FOIA requests suggest the procedure Obama's EPA used to come to its endangerment finding was informed by people who wanted to regulate greenhouse gases as a pollutant no matter what and came to a predetermined conclusion on behalf of a "progressive" national policy.
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"As the Trump administration nears a decision on whether to reverse the landmark regulatory declaration that launched the "Green New Deal" movement, the legality and political motivations of the Obama-era environmental regulators are getting a fresh, hard look.
Emails reviewed by Just the News show that Environmental Protection Agency regulators who helped craft the 2009 "endangerment finding" — which declared greenhouse gases could be regulated because they risked public health — were preparing to impose the regulatory powers of the endangerment finding even before the science was wrapped up.
The emails also show there was an open discussion inside the Obama EPA about trying to score a win for liberals in what was supposed to be a scientific process. “You are at the forefront of progressive national policy on one of the critical issues of our time. Do you realize that?” Georgetown law professor Lisa Heinzerling wrote then-EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson on Feb. 27, 2009. “You’re a good boss. I do realize that. I pinch myself all the time.” . . .
“As long as Zeldin dots all the I’s and crosses all the T’s, I think that'll survive at the Supreme Court level,” Milloy said.
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