President Trump announced on Thursday with Environmental Protection Agency EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, that his administration is terminating Obama’s climate-based regulations on automobiles that classified greenhouse gases as a threat to public health.
Trump said the Obama EPA’s “endangerment finding” was the precursor used to introduce “the massive and really, very expensive electric vehicle mandate.” It further mandated the automatic engine start-stop feature on newer cars, which Trump says he is ending, along with “all additional green emission standards imposed unnecessarily on vehicle models and engines between 2012 and 2027 and beyond.”
The policy classified greenhouse gases and car emissions as public health threats, which Trump says “severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers.”
“This action will eliminate over $1.3 trillion of regulatory costs and help bring car prices tumbling down dramatically,” Trump added.
“You’re going to get a better car. You’re going to get a car that starts easier, a car that works better for a lot less money.”
Trump: I’m pleased to be joined today by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, who you all know, and to announce the single largest deregulatory action in American history. That’s a big statement in American history, and I think we can add the words “by far.”
Under the process just completed by the EPA, we are officially terminating the so-called “endangerment finding,” a disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers. Prices went up incredibly for a worse product. This action will eliminate over $1.3 trillion of regulatory costs and help bring car prices tumbling down dramatically. You’re going to get a better car. You’re going to get a car that starts easier, a car that works better for a lot less money.
The President further announced that he is terminating all of the unnecessary energy standards on American vehicles, which he says will save Americans trillions and reduce vehicle costs by an average of $3,000.
Trump: In 2009, Barack Hussein Obama, his EPA designated fossil fuels, such as oil, gas, and other things that actually make factories rock and roll and other things drive very nicely, as a threat to health and human welfare. Known as the “endangerment finding,” this determination had no basis in fact, had none whatsoever, and it had no basis in law. On the contrary, over the generations, fossil fuels have saved millions of lives and lifted billions of people out of poverty all over the world. And you see it with the blackouts all over where they don’t use it, where they went to wind, intermittent wind, which is weak and ineffective and very, very costly, the most costly energy there is. And people are dying because there was no air conditioning, or there was no heating, lots of other things, bad things happened. And yet this radical rule became the legal foundation for the green new scam, one of the greatest scams in history, probably as great, maybe even greater than Russia, Russia, Russia, hoax, etc, which the Obama and Biden administration used to destroy countless jobs.
The jobs have been just decimated, although they’re all coming back because of tariffs; they’re all coming back into our country at levels we’ve never seen before. But it raised prices and caused immense harm to the US auto industry. We thought irreparable, but we’ve got them back. We’re coming back now. I was in Detroit, as you know, with Ford, and they had one of the earliest plants from the early 1900s, and it was going to be closed down. And then when I won, they said, let’s keep it open for a little while. Let’s see what happens. And they just announced, as you know, they’re going 24 hours around the clock with that same plant that was going to be closed because of what we’ve done.
For example, under the endangerment finding, they forced the hated start-stop feature onto American consumers, which unnecessarily shuts off a car’s engine when you stop at a red light. In other words, the engine goes off. That’s great. The endangerment finding was also used to impose the massive and really, very expensive electric vehicle mandate, expensive in the sense that nobody wanted it. Everybody was going to be forced to buy an electric car in a very short period of time, even though you can’t power the car, because we would have had to spend $5 trillion on power stations. That’s all dead, gone, over. These crippling restrictions were a major factor in driving up car prices to unprecedented levels, and the car that you were getting was not nearly as good.
In four years under the Biden administration, the price of a new and used car rose more than 22% all to facilitate the green new scam, without achieving any meaningful impact on the environment, but making the car worse. That’s why, effective immediately, we’re repealing the ridiculous endangerment finding and terminating all additional green emission standards imposed unnecessarily on vehicle models and engines between 2012 and 2027 and beyond. This action will save American consumers trillions of dollars and will lower the average cost of a new vehicle by close to $3,000.
Barack Obama responded to the rule change, claiming Trump is making Americans “less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can make even more money.”
Today, the Trump administration repealed the endangerment finding: the ruling that served as the basis for limits on tailpipe emissions and power plant rules. Without it, we’ll be less safe, less healthy and less able to fight climate change — all so the fossil fuel industry can…
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) February 12, 2026
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