Today’s announcement by Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin proposing to revoke the 16-year-old scientific finding that pollution from carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases endangers public health and welfare marks yet another escalation by the Trump administration to advance the interests and profits of oil and gas lobbyists while sacrificing public health and accelerating the climate crisis.
Dr. Stephen A. Smith, Executive Director of the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, said, “The Trump administration is recklessly undermining the rules and agencies established to protect Americans’ health and our environment, while at the same time gaslighting Americans by telling us that climate disruption isn’t a threat. We can see with our own eyes the parade of horribles of repeating record-breaking climate disasters. We know that 2024 was the hottest year on record by a wide margin, and each of the last ten years has been the hottest year on record. We’ve had more flash flood warnings in 2025 than ever before, driven by climate warming, and we’ve seen far too many families and communities, such as those in the Texas floods and Hurricane Helene’s path across the Southeast, face the deadly and tragic consequences. It defies logic and common sense for the Trump administration to remove the foundational pillars of our pollution rules when the EPA’s sole job is to protect the people and places we love.”
To learn more, read SACE’s article, “Unleashing Pollution: How Trump is Weaponizing the EPA against Americans.”
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