The climate cult just took another body blow. On Tuesday, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a massive victory for common sense and American consumers by shutting down illegal Biden-era Department of Energy energy efficiency standards for stoves and cooktops. The court slammed the DOE for trying to bypass the law with a shady “Direct Final Rule” that skipped real public notice and comment after red states rightly objected.
Judge Andrew Oldham, joined by Judges Catharina Haynes and James Ho, didn’t mince words. The Biden administration “proposed numerous regulations to make home appliances more expensive and less useful… Rather than confront that controversy, the previous Administration attempted to dodge it.” The panel called out the DOE’s phony “consensus” based on just three far-left states while ignoring conservative ones, and rejected the attempt to force complex, shorter-lifespan power supplies that would drive up costs, repairs, and waste. States including Mississippi, Louisiana, Montana, Nebraska, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah won big. This is the latest chapter in the ongoing war against the radical green agenda’s war on everyday American life—gas stoves, dishwashers, reliable appliances, and affordable energy.
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This stove ruling isn’t an isolated win. Since President Trump returned to office in January 2025, the climate cult’s policy fortress has been crumbling under executive action, congressional legislation, and court defeats. The zealots who spent years pushing net-zero fantasies, EV mandates, and appliance bans are watching their empire of regulation and subsidies get dismantled piece by piece.
The Endangerment Finding Goes Down
The biggest structural hit came in February 2026 when EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, standing alongside President Trump, finalized the rescission of the 2009 Obama-era “Endangerment Finding.” That single finding—that greenhouse gases from motor vehicles endanger public health and welfare—served as the legal keystone for nearly two decades of federal climate regulations, vehicle emissions standards, and related mandates.
Zeldin called it the single largest deregulatory action in U.S. history. It eliminates the foundation for federal greenhouse gas standards on cars and trucks and undercuts broader climate rulemaking. The Trump EPA argued the original finding stretched the Clean Air Act far beyond its text, ignored costs to consumers and industry (over $1 trillion in vehicle regulations alone by some analyses), and failed to account for scientific, technological, and economic developments since 2009. Officials emphasized restoring the rule of law, energy security, consumer choice, and American prosperity over an agenda that throttled industries and raised prices while benefiting overseas adversaries.
This wasn’t rushed. It followed Trump’s Day One “Unleashing American Energy” executive order, formal reconsideration announced in March 2025, a proposed rule in 2025, and finalization after public process. Conservative groups like the American Legislative Exchange Council praised it as curbing administrative overreach and reaffirming separation of powers.
Paris Exit and International Retreat
On day one of his second term, Trump signed an executive order directing immediate withdrawal from the Paris Climate Agreement and related UN Framework Convention on Climate Change commitments. Formal notification went out, with the U.S. considering obligations ended upon notice. Financial commitments and climate finance plans were revoked. The United States once again put America first instead of subordinating energy policy and taxpayer dollars to globalist climate pacts that imposed real costs with dubious benefits.
Legislative Hammer: One Big Beautiful Bill
Congress and the President followed through with the One Big Beautiful Bill Act (often called OBBB), signed into law in July 2025. This sweeping reconciliation package significantly modified or terminated many Inflation Reduction Act clean energy tax credits for wind, solar, electric vehicles, hydrogen, and related technologies. It rescinded unobligated funds for various green grant and loan programs, delayed certain methane fees, and shifted priorities toward reliable energy. The result: a sharp curtailment of the Biden-era subsidy machine that funneled hundreds of billions toward intermittent renewables and EV mandates preferred by the climate lobby.
Broader Pattern of Losses
These headline wins sit atop a broader pattern. Courts have continued striking down or limiting Biden-era overreaches on air quality plans, appliance standards, and more. The Trump administration has prioritized domestic fossil fuel production, energy dominance, and consumer affordability over climate modeling exercises and international virtue-signaling. Regulatory actions that made appliances less reliable, cars more expensive, and electricity less secure have faced systematic rollback.
The climate cult spent years treating dissent as heresy and ordinary Americans’ desire for affordable gas, reliable power, and functional stoves as moral failure. Under Trump’s second term, the policy reality has shifted hard: the Endangerment Finding is gone, Paris is in the rearview, major green subsidies are gutted, and courts keep rejecting the procedural shortcuts the zealots preferred. American energy independence and consumer choice are winning. The cult’s expensive, unreliable vision is losing—and the losses keep coming.
—The Whatfinger Team: Beth and Luke
References
- MASSIVE VICTORY AGAINST THE CLIMATE CULT! Fifth Circuit SHUTS DOWN Illegal Biden-Era Energy Efficiency Standards for Stoves and Cooktops – Slams DOE for Trying to Bypass the Law!
- Trump EPA Kicks Off Formal Reconsideration of Endangerment Finding with Agency Partners
- EPA Finalizes Rule to Remove Endangerment Finding and Rein in Administrative Overreach
- Putting America First In International Environmental Agreements
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