On June 30, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) asked the White House Office of Management and Budget to reconsider the endangerment finding, a key scientific conclusion that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. In the absence of congressional action, EPA administrator Lee Zeldin will have to ask the agency to undertake an extensive scientific review to reshape US emissions and climate policy.
“Zeldin has said that [the EPA] plans to go through notice and comment to revoke the endangerment finding,” Bracewell’s Jeff Holmstead told Chemical & Engineering News.
That means the EPA would have to get a lot of information and data together and “then write up a proposal that says, ‘Upon further reflection and looking at these other things, we believe that it was incorrect to say that greenhouse gas emissions from motor vehicles or from other US sources are reasonably anticipated to endanger public health and welfare,’” Holmstead says.
