WASHINGTON, D.C. (July 29, 2025)—In response to the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) announcement that it would rescind the 2009 endangerment finding, John Noël, Greenpeace USA Climate Campaign Director, said: “After decades of scientific research firmly documenting the connection between carbon dioxide and the greenhouse effect — plus the backing of the EPA’s authority to take action by the Supreme Court — we are surprised to hear that carbon pollution has just been a big misunderstanding between the entire world’s scientific community and a few MAGA podcasters. So congrats to Lee Zeldin on his official induction into the Flat Earth Society, Space Laser Investigation Unit, and ChemTrail Facebook Dads.
“This announcement is just one more handout from Trump to Big Oil so that he can line the pockets of billionaires. There’s nothing reasonable or science-based about it.”
The endangerment finding serves as the government’s primary basis for setting carbon pollution limits. A rollback of this finding would severely limit the government’s ability to fight climate change and expose countless people to harmful pollution from coal and gas-fired power plants, car and truck exhaust, and methane from the oil and gas industry.
Greenpeace USA is part of a global network of independent campaigning organizations that use peaceful protest and creative communication to expose global environmental problems and promote solutions that are essential to a green and peaceful future. Greenpeace USA is committed to transforming the country’s unjust social, environmental, and economic systems from the ground up to address the climate crisis, advance racial justice, and build an economy that puts people first. Learn more at www.greenpeace.org/usa.
