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A Majority of Voters Agree With the Endangerment Finding [1]
['Lew Blank']
Date: 2025-08-19
In July, Lee Zeldin, the administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, announced that the Trump administration would revoke the endangerment finding — an agency rule which determined that a core list of six greenhouse gases, including carbon dioxide and methane, “endanger both the public health and the public welfare of current and future generations.”
Since the rule was created in 2009, it has served as the legal basis for other regulations, including those on greenhouse gas emissions, such as the EPA’s coal-fired power plant emission rules and vehicle emissions regulations. Repealing the endangerment finding severely limits the EPA’s ability to act further on curtailing emissions and slowing climate change.
New polling from Data for Progress finds that an overwhelming majority of voters “strongly” or “somewhat” believe in the central thesis of the endangerment finding — that greenhouse gas emissions are a threat to public health. Only 15% of voters, including just 24% of Republicans, believe that these emissions are not a threat.
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