The Environmental Protection Agency is about to bury the unscientific idea that carbon dioxide is a pollutant. Dropping this “endangerment finding” represents the beginning of the end of the great global warming hoax.

Under President Obama, the agency in 2009 declared the molecule that enables plants to grow and humans to breathe an enemy of the planetary thermostat. This decree vested the EPA with the authority to regulate carbon dioxide as if it were a nasty substance equivalent to black soot, lead, radon or asbestos.

As Uncle Sam is no longer bankrolling the tellers of climate fairy tales, expect many green nonprofits and crony capitalist businesses to pack up their operations and fade away. The ease with which Democrats pulled off their regulatory coup is now their undoing.

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EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson announced this morning she would resign as head of the agency after the president's State of the Union Address. Jackson was the first federal official to declare carbon dioxide a pollutant. On Dec. 7 2009, as expectations grew for the Copenhagen Climate Change Conference, Jackson signed an endangerment finding that asserted carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases pose a threat to human health when concentrated in the atmosphere. The endangerment finding gave EPA the power to regulate those gases even if Congress failed to pass laws to address climate change—which Congress subsequently failed to do. Forbes.com

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