The endangerment finding will hamstring the full exploitation of fossil fuels,” MacDougald said during his presentation at the Heartland Institute‘s 2017 America First Energy Conference. “Basically, every node of the industrial economy is subject to regulation for the sake of fixing the weather.”1 The idea or concept of regulating CO2 emissions to regulate the climate is a concept that knows virtually no bounds. CO2 is ubiquitous to plant, animal, and human life, and so the grant of regulatory authority to the government over CO2 emissions equates to regulatory authority over all of human activity.