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Endangerment Finding
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DOE reframes climate consensus as a debate - E&E News eenews.net Jul 31, 2025 4 facts
accountMark Menezes, who served as deputy Energy secretary during the first Trump administration, recalled that the endangerment finding was discussed during internal deliberations about policy goals.
claimThe Trump administration produced a 141-page report through the Department of Energy that conflicts with and distorts the consensus view of climate scientists to support the effort to repeal the endangerment finding, which serves as the scientific underpinning for greenhouse gas regulations on carmakers, energy companies, and other industries.
claimThe EPA announced a plan to rescind the endangerment finding, arguing that the finding was based on faulty science.
perspectiveSteven Koonin wanted to challenge the science behind the endangerment finding while highlighting uncertainties in established bodies of science, including the National Climate Assessment and the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.
Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work wired.com Jul 30, 2025 3 facts
quoteEPA Administrator Lee Zeldin described the EPA's move to roll back the endangerment finding as "the largest deregulatory action in the history of the United States."
claimZeke Hausfather stated that the EPA's justification for rolling back the endangerment finding draws a "completely backwards" conclusion from his research.
claimThe Environmental Protection Agency announced it would seek to roll back the endangerment finding, which is a 2009 ruling providing the scientific and legal basis for the agency to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.
Dozens of scientists push back on 'fundamentally ... - ABC News abcnews.com Sep 3, 2025 3 facts
accountThe U.S. Department of Energy released its climate report in late July alongside a proposed regulatory repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency's 'Endangerment Finding'.
claimIn 2009, the Environmental Protection Agency issued an 'Endangerment Finding' which determined that human-amplified climate change poses a threat to human health and safety, serving as the basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions.
perspectiveReviewers raised concerns that the Department of Energy (DOE) report was designed to support a predetermined policy agenda, specifically to undermine the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Endangerment Finding, rather than to provide an objective scientific assessment.
Trump's climate report includes more than 100 false or misleading ... interactive.carbonbrief.org Aug 14, 2025 2 facts
claimThe US Environmental Protection Agency stated in a 29 July press release that updated studies and information in the US Department of Energy's report 'A critical review of impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on the US climate' would challenge the assumptions of the 2009 'endangerment finding'.
claimThe 'endangerment finding' enacted by the Obama administration in 2009 states that six greenhouse gases contribute to the net-negative impacts of climate change and put the public in danger.
Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. ... nationalacademies.org 2 facts
referenceThe fast-track study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will focus on updates to climate science since the Environmental Protection Agency finalized the Endangerment Finding in 2009.
claimThe fast-track study by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will compare current scientific understanding of greenhouse gas emissions to the 2009 Environmental Protection Agency Endangerment Finding and explain any changes.
How a major DOE report hides the whole truth on climate change politico.com Sep 27, 2025 2 facts
accountThe Department of Energy released its report in July on the same day the Environmental Protection Agency proposed rescinding the endangerment finding.
accountJudith Curry stated that the Department of Energy report authors intended for the report to be published independently, but the Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency chose to release it simultaneously with the endangerment finding filing.
How the “Scientific Consensus” on Global Warming Affects ... heritage.org Oct 26, 2010 1 fact
claimIn April 2009, the EPA issued an endangerment finding stating that current and future greenhouse gas emissions pose a serious threat to public health and safety.
National Academies Publish New Report Reviewing Evidence for ... nationalacademies.org Sep 17, 2025 1 fact
quoteShirley Tilghman, chair of the committee that wrote the National Academies report, stated: “This study was undertaken with the ultimate aim of informing the EPA, following its call for public comments, as it considers the status of the endangerment finding. We are hopeful that the evidence summarized here shows the strong base of scientific evidence available to inform sound decision-making.”
The Energy Department "Red Team" Critique of Greenhouse-Gas ... revkin.substack.com Jul 31, 2025 1 fact
claimThe new review is intended to provide guidance for the administration's proposal to remove the Obama-era 'endangerment finding,' which authorized the EPA to regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act.