MAGA wants the nation to stick its head into the sand about #ClimateChange.
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MAGA wants the nation to stick its head into the sand about #ClimateChange.
"The 2009 finding under the Clean Air Act [that planet-warming greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare] is the legal underpinning of a host of climate regulations for motor vehicles, power plants and other pollution sources.
The Washington Post first reported that Zeldin had urged the White House to strike down the endangerment finding."
"New research and ever more frequent extreme weather further prove the harm #ClimateChange is doing to people and the planet, 11 different scientists, experts in health and climate, told The Associated Press soon after word of the administration’s plans leaked out Wednesday. They cited peer-reviewed studies and challenged the Trump administration to justify its own effort with science."
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-danger-health-epa-trump-doctors-weather-9fc086f392716c1b7d2b32ab7db6cc7d
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"New research and ever more frequent extreme weather further prove the harm #ClimateChange is doing to people and the planet, 11 different scientists, experts in health and climate, told The Associated Press soon after word of the administration’s plans leaked out Wednesday. They cited peer-reviewed studies and challenged the Trump administration to justify its own effort with science."
https://apnews.com/article/climate-change-danger-health-epa-trump-doctors-weather-9fc086f392716c1b7d2b32ab7db6cc7d
#EndangermentFinding"Five days after the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommended the end of a 15-year-old finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health and welfare, the Environmental Defense Fund sued the agency."
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/environment/2025/03/03/environmental-defense-fund-sues-epa-over-endangerment-finding
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"Five days after the new head of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recommended the end of a 15-year-old finding that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health and welfare, the Environmental Defense Fund sued the agency."
https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/environment/2025/03/03/environmental-defense-fund-sues-epa-over-endangerment-finding
#EPA #EndangermentFinding"Any attempt to reject or replace the #EndangermentFinding would be a challenging legal battle for the administration to wage, according to legal experts and scientists. But a key first step is to go after established climate science.
Officials from Trump’s current and previous presidency have laid out pathways to produce such a report, which would rely on incomplete or selective research and flawed claims."
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trumps-next-climate-move-show-global-warming-benefits-humanity/
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"Any attempt to reject or replace the #EndangermentFinding would be a challenging legal battle for the administration to wage, according to legal experts and scientists. But a key first step is to go after established climate science.
Officials from Trump’s current and previous presidency have laid out pathways to produce such a report, which would rely on incomplete or selective research and flawed claims."
https://www.eenews.net/articles/trumps-next-climate-move-show-global-warming-benefits-humanity/
#EPA"The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their #emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause #ClimateChange.
“It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” said Edward Maibach, a professor at George Mason University.."
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-greenhouse-gas-reporting-climate-crisis
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"The Environmental Protection Agency is planning to eliminate long-standing requirements for polluters to collect and report their #emissions of the heat-trapping gases that cause #ClimateChange.
“It would be a bit like unplugging the equipment that monitors the vital signs of a patient that is critically ill,” said Edward Maibach, a professor at George Mason University.."
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-epa-greenhouse-gas-reporting-climate-crisis
#EPA"The US Environmental Protection Agency is considering scrapping a landmark almost two-decade old legal opinion that greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to human health, the Washington Post reported
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The so-called endangerment finding, published in 2009, has been the legal basis of a wide range of climate rules under the Clean Air Act. A draft proposal to formally abandon the policy is being considered by the EPA, though is still subject to change." -
"The US Environmental Protection Agency is considering scrapping a landmark almost two-decade old legal opinion that greenhouse gas emissions are harmful to human health, the Washington Post reported
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The so-called endangerment finding, published in 2009, has been the legal basis of a wide range of climate rules under the Clean Air Act. A draft proposal to formally abandon the policy is being considered by the EPA, though is still subject to change.""If finalized, the EPA’s plan would end all greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines, despite transportation being the nation’s largest source of climate pollution.
The EPA’s overturning of the endangerment finding is the Trump administration’s latest action rolling back the country’s ability to address greenhouse gas emissions and fight #ClimateChange."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29072025/epa-rescinds-endangerment-finding-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
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"If finalized, the EPA’s plan would end all greenhouse gas emissions regulations for motor vehicles and engines, despite transportation being the nation’s largest source of climate pollution.
The EPA’s overturning of the endangerment finding is the Trump administration’s latest action rolling back the country’s ability to address greenhouse gas emissions and fight #ClimateChange."
https://insideclimatenews.org/news/29072025/epa-rescinds-endangerment-finding-greenhouse-gas-emissions/
#EndangermentFinding"First, the administration asked Congress to revoke the EPA waiver that allows California to set the state's zero-emission vehicle mandate. That was an unprecedented move, and in May, Congress did as requested.
Congress has defanged the CAFE standards by removing the fines for carmakers who fail to meet them.
[And now,] Under the EPA's proposal, all the regulations related to cutting greenhouse gas emissions from cars would be removed."
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5463771/epa-greenhouse-gas-regulations-cars-pollution
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"First, the administration asked Congress to revoke the EPA waiver that allows California to set the state's zero-emission vehicle mandate. That was an unprecedented move, and in May, Congress did as requested.
Congress has defanged the CAFE standards by removing the fines for carmakers who fail to meet them.
[And now,] Under the EPA's proposal, all the regulations related to cutting greenhouse gas emissions from cars would be removed."
https://www.npr.org/2025/07/29/nx-s1-5463771/epa-greenhouse-gas-regulations-cars-pollution
Public comments will be accepted through September 21, while a public hearing will be held in August.
The deregulatory push is also being challenged in court — and will almost certainly face more lawsuits.
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Public comments will be accepted through September 21, while a public hearing will be held in August.
The deregulatory push is also being challenged in court — and will almost certainly face more lawsuits.
"DeSmog has been tracking and building databases on the anti-endangerment coalition for years. Below is our guide to the top fossil fuel groups, conservative policymakers, and climate deniers leading the effort to demolish the bedrock of American climate policy."
Spoiler: all the usual climate deniers with a financial interest in keeping fossil fuels going.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/07/30/climate-deniers-trump-epa-endangerment-finding/
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"DeSmog has been tracking and building databases on the anti-endangerment coalition for years. Below is our guide to the top fossil fuel groups, conservative policymakers, and climate deniers leading the effort to demolish the bedrock of American climate policy."
Spoiler: all the usual climate deniers with a financial interest in keeping fossil fuels going.
https://www.desmog.com/2025/07/30/climate-deniers-trump-epa-endangerment-finding/
"The Trump administration is justifying its move to gut the endangerment finding based on a report it commissioned from five climate skeptics.
The Trump administration’s report should not be viewed as a scientific document, according to Andrew Dessler, director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather at Texas A&M University.
“Their goal is not to weigh the evidence fairly but to build the strongest possible case for CO2’s innocence.” "
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/politics/us-government-epa-climate-change
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"The Trump administration is justifying its move to gut the endangerment finding based on a report it commissioned from five climate skeptics.
The Trump administration’s report should not be viewed as a scientific document, according to Andrew Dessler, director of the Texas Center for Extreme Weather at Texas A&M University.
“Their goal is not to weigh the evidence fairly but to build the strongest possible case for CO2’s innocence.” "
https://www.cnn.com/2025/08/01/politics/us-government-epa-climate-change
Former EPA administrator and White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy: “Instead of doing their job, this EPA is putting the safety of our loved ones at risk while ratcheting up grid instability, energy bills, and disaster costs.”
"In order to justify a decision that seems to fly in the face of legal precedent and overwhelming scientific evidence, the EPA relies primarily on a two-part argument."
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Former EPA administrator and White House National Climate Advisor Gina McCarthy: “Instead of doing their job, this EPA is putting the safety of our loved ones at risk while ratcheting up grid instability, energy bills, and disaster costs.”
"In order to justify a decision that seems to fly in the face of legal precedent and overwhelming scientific evidence, the EPA relies primarily on a two-part argument."
"Bad air quality is not dramatic like a flood, a fire, or a heat wave. If you’re lucky enough to live and work in air-conditioned spaces, you might not notice it at all. Many of the friends and relations of people killed by air pollution won’t realize that the fossil fuel industry—and insufficient government regulation—is to blame. Air pollution is already an ongoing massacre, and Lee Zeldin’s moves this month will kill many more people."
https://newrepublic.com/article/198675/bad-air-quality-deadliest-effect-climate-change
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"Bad air quality is not dramatic like a flood, a fire, or a heat wave. If you’re lucky enough to live and work in air-conditioned spaces, you might not notice it at all. Many of the friends and relations of people killed by air pollution won’t realize that the fossil fuel industry—and insufficient government regulation—is to blame. Air pollution is already an ongoing massacre, and Lee Zeldin’s moves this month will kill many more people."
https://newrepublic.com/article/198675/bad-air-quality-deadliest-effect-climate-change
"If the Administration’s arguments prevail, “it’s going to be very hard for E.P.A. going forward to use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases. So they’re trying to take that away permanently—not just for the next three and a half years.”
The obvious beneficiary of the E.P.A.’s latest move is the fossil-fuel industry."
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"If the Administration’s arguments prevail, “it’s going to be very hard for E.P.A. going forward to use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gases. So they’re trying to take that away permanently—not just for the next three and a half years.”
The obvious beneficiary of the E.P.A.’s latest move is the fossil-fuel industry."
The DOE report on which the EPA rollback of greenhouse gas regulation is based is seriously flawed.
"All five [of its] authors have records of publishing misleading information.
The [DOE] report cherry-picks information to misrepresent key climate change findings."
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The DOE report on which the EPA rollback of greenhouse gas regulation is based is seriously flawed.
"All five [of its] authors have records of publishing misleading information.
The [DOE] report cherry-picks information to misrepresent key climate change findings."
The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers are weighing in.
"The move by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to self-fund the study is a departure from their typical practice of responding to requests by government agencies or Congress for advice. The Academies intend to publicly release it in September, in time to inform the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision on the so-called “endangerment finding”."
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The nation’s premier group of scientific advisers are weighing in.
"The move by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to self-fund the study is a departure from their typical practice of responding to requests by government agencies or Congress for advice. The Academies intend to publicly release it in September, in time to inform the Environmental Protection Agency’s decision on the so-called “endangerment finding”."
Meanwhile,
"US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report—its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming."
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Meanwhile,
"US President Donald Trump's administration is revising past editions of the nation's premier climate report—its latest move to undermine the scientific consensus on human-caused global warming."
"The suppression of climate data by the US government has global implications. The international scientific community depends on the US for critical data which helps in responding to climate disasters.
Disruptions to such data also risk deepening existing scientific and geopolitical inequalities. Limiting access to US climate datasets can especially impact the ability of vulnerable nations to address climate change effectively."
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/inside-trumps-campaign-to-censor-climate-science/
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"The suppression of climate data by the US government has global implications. The international scientific community depends on the US for critical data which helps in responding to climate disasters.
Disruptions to such data also risk deepening existing scientific and geopolitical inequalities. Limiting access to US climate datasets can especially impact the ability of vulnerable nations to address climate change effectively."
https://www.lse.ac.uk/granthaminstitute/news/inside-trumps-campaign-to-censor-climate-science/
"Environmental advocates are suing the Trump administration over what they described as a secretive plan to undermine climate science.
There is a scientific consensus that climate change is exacerbating extreme weather.
In their suit, the groups alleged that the department and agency “have sought to manufacture a basis to reject” the scientific consensus on climate change."
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5449186-environmental-groups-sue-trump/
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"Environmental advocates are suing the Trump administration over what they described as a secretive plan to undermine climate science.
There is a scientific consensus that climate change is exacerbating extreme weather.
In their suit, the groups alleged that the department and agency “have sought to manufacture a basis to reject” the scientific consensus on climate change."
https://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/5449186-environmental-groups-sue-trump/
Fact check
"A “critical assessment” report commissioned by the Trump administration to justify a rollback of US climate regulations contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists."
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factcheck/index.html
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Fact check
"A “critical assessment” report commissioned by the Trump administration to justify a rollback of US climate regulations contains at least 100 false or misleading statements, according to a Carbon Brief factcheck involving dozens of leading climate scientists."
https://interactive.carbonbrief.org/doe-factcheck/index.html
"The Energy Department and the EPA seem to have run afoul of four laws in particular that may be tricky for the administration to get around. "
