Posted by Coppers Dad on February 13, 2026, 5:14 am
The Trump administration’s repeal of the Obama-era “endangerment finding” will lower car costs by an average of $2,400 per vehicle, the White House and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) touted Thursday.
Here’s why.
The action announced by President Trump and EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin ends former President Barack Obama’s sweeping anti-greenhouse gas policy, which allowed the EPA to measure and constrain emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide and other gases from all vehicles and engines of model years 2012 and beyond.
Regulating greenhouse gas emissions under the 2009 policy added “incalculably large” costs to carmakers and consumers, according to one expert, who suggested the savings could be even larger than what the Trump administration expects.
