The EPA is threatening to revoke the Endangerment Finding, a regulation that is foundational for managing greenhouse gas emissions and curbing the increase in climate change and its growing impact on our health and well-being. 

The agency must continue fulfilling its role in protecting communities from environmental harm through regulating heat-trapping emissions. The EPA and Administrator Zeldin should reconsider repealing the Endangerment Finding. 

In making this decision, EPA cited a discredited report by the Department of Energy’s 2025 Climate Work Group. Ending the stream of misinformation influencing decision-making at the agency is crucial. 

The link between greenhouse emissions, warming and increases in devastating wildfires, floods, droughts and other climate-change impacts is clear. Established science should continue informing decision making.

Curbing climate warming through responsible action at this moment can yield huge benefits to people’s health and the environment. Failing to act means a growing risk of unnatural disasters such as more severe heatwaves, wildfires, flooding, and negative impacts on health, property and incomes. 

As a scientist and educator who has focused on environmental management for five decades, I’m urging readers to press members of Congress, business leaders, and everyone to follow the science and reject the repeal of the Endangerment Finding.

— Roger Bales, Professor emeritus, University of California