"In one of its most significant reversals on climate policy to-date, the Trump administration on Tuesday proposed to repeal a 2009 scientific finding that human-caused climate change endangers human health and safety, EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin announced. If successful, the repeal could strip away the federal government’s most powerful way to control the country’s planet-warming pollution and fight climate change.
The repeal was based in part on a hastily produced report — authored by five researchers who have spent years sowing doubt in the scientific consensus around climate change — that questions the severity of the impacts of climate change.
The 2009 scientific finding at the heart of this repeal has served as the basis of many of the Environmental Protection Agency’s most significant regulations to protect human health and environment, and decrease climate pollution from cars, power plants and the oil and gas industry.
Zeldin on Tuesday spoke proudly of his agency’s move to repeal the endangerment finding as the “largest deregulatory action in the history of America,” speaking on “Ruthless,” a conservative podcast, and referred to climate change as dogma rather than science."
Ella Nilsen and Andrew Freedman report for CNN July 29, 2025.
SEE ALSO:
"EPA Attacks Climate Science. Here Are The Facts." (E&E News)
"Contrarian Climate Assessment From U.S. Government Draws Swift Pushback" (Science)
"Trump's 'Targeted' Attack On Climate Data Escalates Across Government" (Thomson Reuters Foundation)
"Candidate Trump Promised Oil Executives a Windfall. Now, They’re Getting It." (New York Times)
"Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work" (WIRED)
"A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate" (Energy Dept.)
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