FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
August 18, 2025
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Aaron Bharucha, Public Relations Associate
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EPA Public Hearings on Endangerment Finding Repeal Will Decide the Future of Climate Protections
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Environmental Protection Network will be providing testimony along with scientists, health experts, and community advocates at EPA’s upcoming virtual public hearings on August 19 and 20, 2025 (with an additional session on August 21 if needed) regarding the proposed repeal of the landmark 2009 Endangerment Finding.
The Endangerment Finding is the scientific and legal cornerstone for regulating climate pollution under the Clean Air Act. Its repeal would strip away the foundation for controlling greenhouse gas emissions from vehicles, power plants, and other major sources, reversing decades of progress on clean air and climate protections.
Details on the hearings:
- Dates: August 19 & 20, 2025 (August 21 if additional time is needed)
- Format: Virtual only (no in-person sessions).
- Register via email: EPA-MobileSource-Hearings@epa.gov
- Public comments: Submit by Sept. 15 (docket EPA–HQ–OAR–2025–0194)
“This is a direct attack on science, public health, and our future,” said Michelle Roos, Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Network. “EPA is proposing to abandon its legal obligation to protect people from harmful pollution, putting lives at risk, and ignoring the significant costs we will all incur in health costs and premature deaths.”
The stakes are clear:
- Tens of thousands of additional premature deaths due to increased pollution exposure by 2055.
- 25.5 million more asthma attacks and 9 million missed work and school days.
- Billions of dollars in lost health and climate benefits.
- Accelerated climate instability, including more severe heatwaves, floods, droughts, and disease spread.
“EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin talks about saving some companies money, but he fails to share the far greater costs that he is foisting upon families, saddling them with medical bills, missed work days, and missed school days,” Roos added.
EPA’s proposal, which is grounded in political expedience rather than science, ignores overwhelming evidence from the U.S. Global Change Research Program, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, and the National Academies. It also disregards the Supreme Court’s Massachusetts v. EPA ruling, which confirmed the agency’s duty to regulate climate pollution based on the Endangerment Finding.
The Environmental Protection Network urges all who value clean air, a stable climate, and science-based policymaking to testify, submit comments, and spread the word. Silence is not an option when the air we breathe and the future we leave to our children are at stake.
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