National Academies publishes rebuke of EPA attempts to dismiss climate threats [View all]
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One of the United States' leading scientific groups published its strongest rebuke of the Trump administration's dismissal of the dangers of climate change, saying the evidence is "beyond scientific dispute."
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine published a new report Wednesday that says long-term observations "confirm unequivocally that greenhouse gas emissions are warming Earth's surface and changing Earth's climate."
The report stands in opposition to the Trump administration's decision in July to begin the process of revoking a key scientific finding published by the EPA in 2009 that six greenhouse gases are a threat to public health and must be regulated under the Clean Air Act. Known as the "endangerment finding," it has been used by the EPA to regulate sources of climate change-causing pollution from cars, power plants and other sources of transportation like planes, as well as oil and gas operations.
EPA administrator Lee Zeldin has sought to justify the repeal of the endangerment finding by arguing that it is too costly to regulate greenhouse gases and that the agency may not even have the authority to regulate them. He has also cited a 2025 Energy Department study that found greenhouse gases "appear to be less damaging economically than commonly believed."
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Link to National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine REPORT - Effects of Human-Caused Greenhouse Gas Emissions on U.S. Climate, Health, and Welfare
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