Repealing EPA’s Endangerment Finding Will Cause a Public Health Nightmare

Scientists, advocates blast EPA plan to undo climate finding

The EPA is proposing to bury its head in the sand and ignore the mounting costs of climate change for all Americans, Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes expressed in front of Environmental Protection Agency officials Tuesday, the start of the public comment period for the EPAs proposal to revoke the endangerment finding.The proposed repeal is wrong on the science and its unlawful, Mayes added.Public health advocates, like Nissa Shaffi, who spoke…

Repealing EPA’s endangerment finding will cause a public health nightmare

If that happens, it will neutralize the federal government’s ability to combat climate change and enforce laws intended to protect America’s wellbeing.

Businesses fear 'chaos' after Trump administration moves to strip EPA’s climate pollution authority

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is seeking to revoke its own authority to regulate greenhouse gases, a move that would erase key climate protections and unsettle both legal and corporate frameworks built over the last 15 years.Michael Copley reports for NPR.In short:The EPA is proposing to overturn its 2009 “endangerment finding,” which declared greenhouse gases a threat to public health, forming the legal basis for federal climate rule…

FFRF opposes EPA’s dangerous retreat from climate science

Photo by Grigorii Bakaturo The Freedom From Religion Foundation is strongly opposing a proposed Environmental Protection Agency rule that would strip the agency of its ability to regulate greenhouse gases — a move FFRF calls dangerous, anti-science, and part of the Christian nationalist Project 2025 agenda. Revoking the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding, which rightly recognized greenhouse gases as pollutants that endanger human health and welfare…

EPA's Endangerment Finding is critical for clean air and the climate. Lee Zeldin and the Trump administration want to repeal it.

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Businesses face ‘chaos’ as EPA aims to repeal its authority over climate pollution

The Trump administration’s plan to undo a landmark finding that climate pollution threatens public health and welfare poses lots of risks for corporate America.The Environmental Protection Agency’s endangerment finding has served as the legal basis for federal climate regulations under the Clean Air Act since 2009. The finding concludes that the accumulation of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide in the atmosphere endangers people’s health a…