{"id":26125,"date":"2025-07-29T15:50:30","date_gmt":"2025-07-29T20:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/?p=26125"},"modified":"2025-07-31T14:41:13","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T19:41:13","slug":"the-endangerment-of-the-endangerment-finding","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2025\/07\/the-endangerment-of-the-endangerment-finding\/","title":{"rendered":"The Endangerment of the Endangerment Finding?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"kcite-section\" kcite-section-id=\"26125\">\n\n<p>The EPA, along with the &#8220;Climate Working Group&#8221; (CWG) of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/archives\/2025\/07\/melange-a-trois\/\" title=\"Melange \u00e0 Trois\">usual suspects<\/a> (plus Judith Curry and Ross McKitrick) at DOE, have just put out a document for public comment their attempt to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-large is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/weather-news\/article\/heat-wave-to-scorch-the-us-this-week--and-some-cities-will-experience-feels-like-heat-index-of-115%C2%B0f-152028423.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/\/heatwave_2025-600x400.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-26126 lazyload\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 600px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 600\/400;width:237px;height:auto\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/heatwave_2025-600x400.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/heatwave_2025-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/heatwave_2025-150x100.jpeg 150w, https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/images\/heatwave_2025.jpeg 1195w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Here are some relevant links:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/climate-change\/endangerment-and-cause-or-contribute-findings-greenhouse-gases-under-section-202a\" title=\"\">Original Endangerment Finding (2009)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.epa.gov\/regulations-emissions-vehicles-and-engines\/proposed-rule-reconsideration-2009-endangerment-finding\" title=\"Proposed rule (2025)\">Proposed rule (2025)<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-07\/DOE_Critical_Review_of_Impacts_of_GHG_Emissions_on_the_US_Climate_July_2025.pdf\" title=\"\">DOE Critical Review of Impacts of GHG Emissions on the US Climate<\/a> (Christy, Curry, Koonin, McKitrick, Spencer, 2025)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>This is a placeholder post for links and comments while folks try and digest the details. Feel free to post links to analyses as you find them and we&#8217;ll elevate the best to the OP. We&#8217;ll have a more considered response in a couple of days. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Updates (7\/31):<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Some relevant media reports:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>&#8220;Contrarian Climate Assessment from US Govt. draws swift pushback&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.science.org\/content\/article\/contrarian-climate-assessment-u-s-government-draws-swift-pushback\" title=\"\">Science<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Trump&#8217;s EPA takes aim at the Endangerment Finding&#8221;  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scientificamerican.com\/article\/trumps-epa-targets-endangerment-finding-underlying-climate-change-policy-for\/\" title=\"\">Scientific American<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;Scientists Say New Government Climate Report Twists Their Work&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wired.com\/story\/scientists-say-new-government-climate-report-twists-their-work\/\" title=\"Wired\">Wired<\/a> <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>&#8220;DOE reframes climate consensus as a debate&#8221; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eenews.net\/articles\/doe-reframes-climate-consensus-as-a-debate\/\" title=\"\">E&amp;E News<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/judithcurry.com\/2025\/07\/29\/new-climate-assessment-report-from-us-doe\/\" title=\"A rationale\">A self-justifying rationale<\/a> for the CWG effort from Judith Curry. Note that she (somewhat incredibly) will not opine (publicly) on the Endangerment Finding itself. Stealth advocacy anyone?   <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Links for the public comments:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>On the EPA proposed rule: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/search\/docket?filter=EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194\" title=\"The Docket is here\">The Docket is here<\/a> (but see above link on how to submit) <\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>On the DOE &#8216;Critical&#8217; Review: (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.energy.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/2025-07\/Federal_Register_Notice_Climate_Report_July_2025.pdf\" title=\"Instructions\">Instructions<\/a>). Docket should be <a href=\"https:\/\/www.regulations.gov\/search\/docket?filter=DOE-HQ-2025-0207\" title=\"\">here<\/a>, but is not yet live.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>Note that It is not clear to us that comments on the DOE report will have any direct role in the EPA ruling.<\/p>\n<!-- kcite active, but no citations found -->\n<\/div> <!-- kcite-section 26125 -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The EPA, along with the &#8220;Climate Working Group&#8221; (CWG) of usual suspects (plus Judith Curry and Ross McKitrick) at DOE, have just put out a document for public comment their attempt to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding for greenhouse gas emissions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":26126,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,5,1,75,3,16,9,23,161,24],"tags":[180,179,178],"class_list":{"0":"post-26125","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-climate-impacts","8":"category-climate-modelling","9":"category-climate-science","10":"category-featured-story","11":"category-greenhouse-gases","12":"category-in-the-news","13":"category-instrumental-record","14":"category-ipcc","15":"category-model-comp","16":"category-reporting-on-climate","17":"tag-doe","18":"tag-endangerment-finding","19":"tag-epa","20":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26125","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26125"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26125\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26140,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26125\/revisions\/26140"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26126"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26125"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26125"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.realclimate.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26125"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}