Sustainable Views · September 12, 2025
As U.S. policy and institutions increasingly break with reality, the private sector should use its influence to protect the EPA’s Endangerment Finding and mitigate climate risk as a top priority – for business, customers, and communities.
The US Environmental Protection Agency recently announced a proposal to end the regulation of greenhouse gas emissions.
Known as the “endangerment finding” and often cited as the legal bedrock for addressing global warming, officials are reconsidering the basic premise that carbon and methane pollution threatens public health.
By seeking to overturn the only rule that allows for the limiting of planet-warming GHG emissions from vehicles, power plants, and oil and gas wells under the Clean Air Act, it would end the EPA’s ability to fight and mitigate climate change.
This latest move reminds us that the climate crisis is ultimately a political crisis. The oil and gas lobby, via the Donald Trump administration 2.0, continues to dominate US politics and would have us ignore science and our senses all in the service of maximizing profit, while destroying clean air, public health and the environment in the process.
It also follows a long string of anti-climate efforts by the government to cut federal climate science research, repeal the Inflation Reduction Act’s clean energy provisions, withdraw from the Paris Agreement, and repeal dozens of regulations that aim to keep America’s water and air pollution at bay.
However, the proposed endangerment finding repeal moves beyond predictable regulatory rollbacks and attacks the scientific foundation for climate action.
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