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DOE climate report could create problems for EPA

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · 11d

Have any EPA staff NOT been notified they're exempted or excluded from furlough? I'd love to hear from you! on Signal at jchemnick.01.

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · 16d

The DOE climate report creates a lot of problems for EPA's endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. It will be interesting to see if EPA uses it in the final, or if decides to just double down on legal arguments:

www.eenews.net/articles/doe...

The agency may need to ditch its scientific justification for repealing the endangerment finding that underpins most climate rules.

‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · 18d

Trump's UN speech was one of his most unfiltered and extended climate denial riffs ever, full of falsehoods, lies and distortions.

“I’m really good at predicting things...I don’t say that in a braggadocios way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.”

www.eenews.net/articles/con...

The president used a large chunk of his speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies.

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · 18d

EPA is moving fast to finalize its repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gases and tailpipe emissions rules. Internal notes and slides show options for the final rule will be selected this week and next. Public comment closed Monday.

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · 26d

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EPA proposal puts US gas exporters in a bind

Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · 26d

The oil and gas industry didn't expect EPA to suspend its greenhouse gas reporting, and for the most part it doesn't see it doing the sector any favors. I focus mostly on challenges it could create for gas exports to the E.U., but there are other issues. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

The bid to halt greenhouse gas reporting could cause problems for petroleum companies — especially those hoping to sell gas to the EU.

EPA attacks climate science. Here are the facts.

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Scott Waldman @scottpwaldman.bsky.social · Jul 30

The Trump administration's climate science report is riddled with cherry-picked data, sweeping claims easily contradicted by a vast body of research and long-debunked climate denial tropes. @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I fact-check some claims here: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

The Trump administration's proposal to roll back the endangerment finding includes many misleading and inaccurate claims.

EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates | US EPA

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Ari Peskoe @aripeskoe.bsky.social · Jul 29

Here's EPA's press release announcing its intent to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding about GHGs. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

The document should be available here -- but [metaphor alert] the link is currently broken... www.epa.gov/regulations-...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regu...

www.epa.gov

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · Jul 29

So, anybody know who might be live streaming #EPA's endangerment finding announcement at 2 ET? Because the agency isn't going to do it, even though #Zeldin called it the "the largest deregulatory action in the history of America" this morning on the Ruthless podcast.

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Zack Colman @zcolman.bsky.social · Jul 28

EPA will move tomorrow to revoke the endangerment finding, the foundation for all US climate regulations, and emissions limits for cars and trucks.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will make the announcement in Indiana.

w/ @chemnick.bsky.social

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POLITICO Pro: EPA to launch plan Tuesday for undoing climate rule cornerstone

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is planning to announce the move at an Indiana transportation facility.

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Olúfẹ́mi O. Táíwò @olufemiotaiwo.bsky.social · Jul 26

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke."

www.cbsnews.com/news/israel-...

Israeli military says airdrops of aid into Gaza set to begin tonight amid increased starvation deaths

For months, the U.N. and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

www.cbsnews.com

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · Jul 24

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EPA’s endangerment gambit could cause rules to spring back

The agency appears poised to tie its deregulatory agenda to undoing the 2009 scientific finding behind most climate rules.

Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · Jul 24

Could EPA rely too much on the endangerment finding gambit and end up with the Biden rules back in force?

EPA shuffles major climate program office

Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · Jul 24

The Trump administration's proposal on the endangerment finding is coming -- possibly tomorrow. I'd love to talk to anyone with intel about how OIRA (and EPA) are going to try and do this. I'm on Signal at jchemnick.01.

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · Jul 21

EPA's latest reorg moved oversight of the IRA "green banks" program out of the air pollution office and into a new "Office of Finance and Administration." The program's former career director, who had been placed on administrative leave, is at WRI: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

The office created under President Joe Biden to run the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund has been turned into an oversight arm.

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Climate Tracker @climate.skyfleet.blue · Jul 1

Key climate change reports removed from US government websites #Climate

Key climate change reports removed from US government websites

The national climate assessments help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of a warming world

www.theguardian.com

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · Jun 9

We're hearing that the Trump administration's repeal of EPA carbon curbs for the power sector will probably come out Wednesday, along with the MATs rule rollback. Anyone out there know exactly what's in it?

I'm on Signal at jchemnick.01

Inside EPA’s backdoor bid to stop regulating climate pollution

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Gregg Gonsalves @gregggonsalves.bsky.social · May 31

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · May 30

We'll see how EPA threads the needle on the power sector's "finding of significant contribution" next month, when it proposes its repeal of Biden-era power regs. Here's my piece about some of the legal challenges it will face: www.eenews.net/articles/ins...

The agency’s expected justification for overturning the power plant rule could also absolve it from regulating other industries’ planet-warming

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · May 30

EPA seems poised to use (at least) two separate strategies to tackle GHG endangerment: taking on the 2009 finding itself, and trying to argue that power plant emissions aren't a "significant" contributor to public endangerment.

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Michelle Goldberg @michellegoldberg.bsky.social · May 30

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Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · May 27

I'd love to connect with current or former EPA staff on climate policy: endangerment finding, power plant carbon rule, grants, etc. I'm on Signal at jchemnick.01

Jean Chemnick @chemnick.bsky.social · May 9

If you're an EPA employee working on climate who has recently been placed on administrative leave, I'm at jchemnick.01 on Signal. Please get in touch!