TPA Praises White House for EPA Regulatory Rollback

For Immediate Release

Contact: Kara Zupkus (224) 456-0257

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) applauded the White House for removing the 2009 Obama-era “endangerment finding”—a sweeping claim of authority that gave the Environmental Protection Agency regulatory control over virtually all economic activity. As Department of Energy Secretary Chris Wright notes, the finding, “has had an enormously negative impact on the lives of the American people. For more than 15 years, the U.S. government used the finding to pursue an onslaught of costly regulations – raising prices and reducing reliability and choice on everything from vehicles to electricity and more.”

In response to the White House announcement, David Williams, President of TPA, offered the following comment:

“After 16 long years of overregulation and unconstitutional overreach, President Trump is absolutely right to finally end the endangerment finding. The determination had given bureaucrats a blank check to enact heavy-handed regulations that impact everything from vehicle manufacturing to oil and natural gas refining and processing. It shifted enormous policymaking power from Congress to unelected officials. Today’s decision restores accountability and signals that lawmakers, not unelected bureaucrats, are in the driver’s seat.

“Regulations stemming from the endangerment finding have carried staggering compliance costs totaling more than $1 trillion. At a time of stubbornly high inflation, policymakers should be doing everything possible to lower costs on households and businesses. Today’s decision is a big step in that direction and will unleash innovation across the economy. New technologies, including those combatting pollution, need less red tape and lower costs to thrive, not onerous rules from Washington, D.C.

“TPA applauds President Trump for putting taxpayers and consumers ahead of reckless and unaccountable bureaucrats. There is plenty more red tape to cut, and we look forward to more free-market reforms from the White House.”

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The Taxpayers Protection Alliance (TPA) is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to educating the public through the research, analysis, and dissemination of information on the government’s impact on the economy.