Dear Friends,
As a brief follow-up to my email of a month ago (repeated below with a few small updates), I strongly encourage all of you to submit a public comment on the EPA proposal to rescind the 2009 “endangerment” finding, which states that global warming poses a threat to “the public health and welfare of current and future generations.”
Comments are due by Monday (9/22/25) and are very easy to submit. There are several ways to submit (described here), but I think the easiest is as follows:
- Send your comments in the form of an email to a-and-r-Docket@epa.gov.
- For the Subject line, be sure to put: “Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194”
That’s all there is to it. In terms of content, it is best if you formulate your own words, but you can feel free to adapt any of mine from below. You might also wish to reference the expert review mentioned in my first bullet below. For the conclusion of your comments, I would suggest some statement along the lines of: “The only reasonable conclusion is that the proposal to reconsider the Endangerment Finding should be rejected, as there is no reasonable doubt that the original finding is correct.”
Note: For those who wish to make economic arguments, it’s worth noting that the rest of the world is going to continue to move away from fossil fuels because the alternatives are not only cleaner but also cheaper (especially when you consider the costs to society that I detail in Chapter 4 of my global warming primer) and often easier to use. (E.g, solar panels can be installed even in places that lack a robust electrical grid.) The only thing that the Administration’s policies are likely to do is to ensure that new energy sources are purchased from China and other countries rather than from the U.S.
Best wishes,
Jeff
PS. If you submit a public comment and are willing to share it with me, I’d love to see it.