Trump Administration Terminates Climate Regulations After Al Gore’s Failed Predictions

By Michael Dorstewitz
Friday, 13 February 2026 10:38 AM EST

The Trump administration announced Thursday that it had removed all legal basis for federal climate regulations by repealing the scientific finding that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health.

This action frees up the U.S. auto industry from complying with federal greenhouse gas emission standards for all vehicles and engines of model years 2012 to 2027 that were put into place by the Obama administration in 2009.

President Trump made the announcement with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin and White House Budget director Russ Vought.

“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 drove up prices for American consumers,” Trump said.

This move represents both the latest and most sweeping climate change policy rollback by the administration to date. It follows America’s withdrawal from the Paris Climate Accord and the end of Biden-era tax credits aimed at accelerating deployment of electric vehicles and renewable energy.

It also follows the long string of failed predictions made by climate alarmists, including former Vice President Al Gore, in his documentary film “An Inconvenient Truth,” which debuted 20 years ago with a standing ovation at the Sundance Film Festival.

That film ushered in the climate activist movement, earned Gore a Nobel Prize, and prompted a rash of expensive climate regulations enacted worldwide.

Gore’s failed predictions included specific claims that never materialized, and all other assertions he made throughout his career did not come to pass. In fact, the Arctic’s polar bear population has increased.

Despite these failures, Gore attended the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland last month. He spoke about “boiling oceans” and “rain bombs,” but there was one difference this year—hardly anyone listened.

They moved him to a small conference room, with empty chairs indicating he couldn’t fill it.

When Gore finished warning that we must stop using fossil fuels to survive, he boarded his private jet—presumably the same one used for travel.

After all, as he is “much too important” to fly commercial with the “little people.”

The administration’s action stops such nonsense, benefiting not only the auto industry but also U.S. consumers.

U.S. consumers are no longer forced to drive vehicles with engines that turn off at stop signs or red lights.

We are no longer required to pay for federal incentives to purchase electric vehicles—whether we buy one or not.

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. delivered his famous “I Have a Dream” speech in front of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D.C., closing with the line: “Free at last. Free at last. Thank God almighty, we are free at last.”

With the Trump administration’s move to break chains of climate alarmism, we can all say that we are finally “free at last.”