The Environmental Protection Agency is planning on ripping apart science-based research findings!
A proposed rule, titled the “Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards,” is steeped heavily in the Christian nationalist, anti-science agenda of Project 2025. The agency is asking for comments “on whether regulated parties and other stakeholders have significant reliance interests in GHG emission standards for new motor vehicles and engines.” All Americans have a reliance on the EPA’s regulation of greenhouse gas emissions — that’s why we need you to submit comments urging the rejection of this rule!
The proposed rule complains that a prior EPA Administrator found that new motor vehicle engine emissions “contribute to the air pollution” when those emissions consisted of six “well-mixed” greenhouse gases previously identified as a danger to public health or welfare. Greenhouse gases are not like a Long Island Iced Tea, where a “well-mixed” combination of unpalatable ingredients produces a pleasant result. As the EPA’s website confirms, greenhouse gases “thicken[] the Earth’s atmospheric blanket” no matter how well mixed they are.
The proposed rule cites the Department of Energy’s dubious April CWG Draft Report to justify its departure from reality. That Draft Report bizarrely suggests that elevated levels of atmospheric carbon dioxide are not a threat to societal well-being, and offers by way of example that the “recent rebound of the Great Barrier Reef suggests” that long-standing scientific consensus on the topic may be wrong. However, just in the last two weeks a new report showed that the Great Barrier Reef suffered “the largest annual decline in coral cover since records began nearly 40 years ago.”
Regulatory decisions must be made based on peer-reviewed science, and not cherry-picked anecdotes that can’t hold up to scrutiny. Please take this chance to voice your concerns on this proposed ruling! Just push the “Take Action” button and you will see suggested language, which you can submit or personalize to your liking.