‘We’re going to be less safe, less healthy’: Barack Obama’s stark warning to Donald Trump over scrapping climate change findings

Hazard findings released by the Obama administration determine that greenhouse gases drive climate change.

“Without it, we are less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change, all in the name of making more money for the fossil fuel industry,” the 44th U.S. president wrote on social media platform X.

Earlier, Trump announced the rescission of the ruling along with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and White House Budget Director Russ Vought, who has long sought to undo the finding and is a key architect of the conservative policy blueprint Plan 2025.

Repeal of the bill would remove regulatory requirements for vehicles to measure, report, certify and comply with federal greenhouse gas emissions standards, but may not initially apply to stationary sources such as power plants.

The moves come a year after a series of regulatory cuts and other actions aimed at liberalizing fossil fuel development and hampering the spread of clean energy.

“Following the just-completed process at the EPA, we are officially ending what is known as Hazard Discovery, a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the U.S. auto industry and drove up prices for American consumers,” Trump said, calling it the largest deregulatory effort in U.S. history.

Hazards are discovered first by USA In 2009, he led EPA’s action under the Clean Air Act of 1963 to curb emissions of carbon dioxide, methane and four other heat-trapping air pollutants from automobiles, power plants and other industries.

The situation comes after the Supreme Court ruled in 2007 in Massachusetts v. EPA that the agency has the authority to regulate carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act.