Protest the EPA’s Repeal of the Endangerment Finding (UPDATED 2/13)

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February 13, 2026: The Trump administration has officially revoked the 2009 Endangerment Finding that allowed the EPA to tackle climate change through regulations on the oil and gas industry. This revocation will be challenged in the courts. Congress must now pass legislation to codify the EPA’s authority to regulate pollution and greenhouse gasses into law and protect these necessary regulations.

On July 29th, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a proposal to repeal the 2009 “Endangerment Finding”, the legal and scientific foundation for the government’s ability to combat climate change. After a 2007 Supreme Court ruling that the EPA can only regulate greenhouse gases under the Clean Air Act if it’s proven that pollutants threaten human health and welfare, the 2009 science-backed Endangerment Finding concluded that they do, forming the legal basis for emissions regulation.

A repeal of the Endangerment Finding bucks decades of scientific research and would completely strip the EPA of its legal authority, leading to widespread deregulation of fossil fuel use, power plant and vehicle emissions, and other major sources of pollution. To justify claims that the Endangerment Finding should be revoked, the EPA has cited a report commissioned by the Energy Department, from well known climate science deniers, using cherry-picked data and false citations to reach their conclusions that greenhouse gas emissions do not contribute to climate change; they instead assert that vehicle price increases are more harmful to the public.

Call your representatives and tell them to pass legislation to protect the environment from greenhouse gases and more.