Trump’s EPA decides climate change doesn’t endanger public health – the evidence says otherwise

2 min read

Images (left to right clockwise) Photo: Birmingham, Alabama – July 1972. Credit: LeRoy Woodson – NARA/Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Photo: Los Angeles Reactive Pollutant Program – September 1973. Credit: Gene Daniels – NARA/Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Photo: Los Angeles, California – September 1973. Credit: Gene Daniels – NARA/Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Photo: The Palisades Fire – January 13, 2025. Credit: Pacific Southwest Forest Service, USDA – Taskforce 1600/Wikimedia Commons. Public Domain. Image: Infographic. Credit: NOAA/National Weather Service. Public Domain. Photo: “When the Levees Broke” in New Orleans – September 1, 2005. Credit: David Russell/The National Guard/Flickr. US government work. Article by Jonathan Levy, Howard Frumkin, Jonathan Patz and Vijay Limaye. The Conversation – February 12, 2026.

The Trump administration took a major step in its efforts to unravel America’s climate policies on Feb. 12, 2026, when it moved to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding – a formal determination that six greenhouse gases that drive climate change, including carbon dioxide and methane from burning fossil fuels, endanger public health and welfare. But the administration’s arguments in dismissing the health risks of climate change are not only factually wrong, they’re deeply dangerous to Americans’ health and safety. […]

Click here to view original web page at www.theconversation.com