Trump’s Climate Rollback Takes on a Key Scientific Finding

The federal government’s ability to regulate greenhouse gases depends on a 2009 scientific determination. The Trump administration wants to repeal it. Read More

National Academy of Sciences rebuffs Trump EPA's effort to undo regulations fighting climate change

Evidence that climate change harms public health is "beyond scientific dispute," the independent National Academy of Sciences said Wednesday in a report responding to Trump administration efforts to ... Read More

National Academies publishes rebuke of EPA attempts to dismiss climate threats

The findings of the report "confirm unequivocally" greenhouse gas emissions are changing the climate, as EPA administrator tries to stop agency from regulating those emissions. Read More

National Academies: Climate change’s harms ‘beyond scientific dispute’

In response to the Trump administration repeatedly saying otherwise, the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine on Wednesday issued a report that emphasized that climate change’s ... Read More

Trump rolls back rules meant to keep politics out of climate research

The new changes scrap broad provisions that scientists had pushed for, including assurance that independent arbiters would oversee enforcement of the scientific integrity policies. Ahead of President ... Read More

The Trump administration launches assault on the EPA’s endangerment finding following decades-long right-wing media campaign

On July 29, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin announced the Trump administration’s intention to revoke the endangerment finding — a landmark change ending the EPA’s authority to ... Read More

Q&A on the Trump EPA’s Effort to Curtail Regulation of Greenhouse Gas Emissions

The Environmental Protection Agency is holding public hearings this week on its effort to undo the legal foundation for its regulation of greenhouse gases, the heat-trapping gases that cause climate ... Read More