YOUR COMMENT IS NEEDED

The administration is dismantling many of the protections science and health providers have put in place at the EPA. We need your help to stop these harmful actions. Our partners at Elders Climate Action put together steps to comment that will only take a few minutes of your time yet will have significant and impactful results.

We encourage you to customize the message below and share how your family or community will be impacted by putting polluters’ profits over your health and safety.

Comment to Protect the Endangerment Findings-Landmark Research used to create the Clean Air Act for EPA to regulate polluters

Deadline to comment is September 15; to testify, August 12.

Most recently threatened at the EPA is the Endangerment Finding, the first step required by the Clean Air Act for EPA to regulate a pollutant. In the Mass v EPA (2007) case, the Supreme Court affirmed that if EPA found that GHG emissions endanger public health and welfare, then EPA could regulate GHGs as a “pollutant.” The Endangerment finding adopted by Obama’s EPA in 2009 establishes the statutory foundation for regulating six GHGs that EPA listed as pollutants: CO2, N2O (nitrous oxide), CH4 (methane), HFCs, PFCs and SF6. If the Endangerment Finding is withdrawn, then there will be no statutory predicate for regulating these gases as pollutants. Currently, EPA has adopted regulatory programs for CO2 from power plants and motor vehicles, and methane from oil and gas production and storage. Statutory authority for these programs will no longer exist if the Endangerment Finding is withdrawn. Trump’s goal, as he promised the industry during the campaign, is to protect oil, gas and coal producers from regulations that will take away their dominance over energy production in the US.

• TESTIFY or attend the virtual public hearing. REGISTER by August 12. A hearing is scheduled for August 19 and 20, 2025. We urge anyone who is interested to add their voice on this very important subject. To register, by filling out theEPA’s form found here. Then let us know that you registered (paloma@eldersclimateaction.org). We can help you with your talking points.
• SUBMIT A COMMENT. The deadline for written comments is September 15. We’ve made it easy for you tocustomize your written messageand publish it directly in the Federal Register.COMMENT HERE.