{"id":1691,"date":"2026-01-23T18:01:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/trump-administration-coordinated-secret-working-group-to-support-climate-rollbacks\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T18:01:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T18:01:49","slug":"trump-administration-coordinated-secret-working-group-to-support-climate-rollbacks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/authorwebsitepublishing.xyz\/demo\/trump-administration-coordinated-secret-working-group-to-support-climate-rollbacks\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump Administration Coordinated Secret \u2018Working Group\u2019 to Support Climate Rollbacks"},"content":{"rendered":"

January 23, 2025<\/strong> \u2013 Documents released<\/a> by environmental groups Thursday shed new light on the process the Trump administration used to create the report that supported the Environmental Protection Agency\u2019s (EPA) proposal to repeal<\/a> the \u201cendangerment finding.\u201d<\/p>\n

The endangerment finding\u2014the agency\u2019s own ruling that greenhouse gas emissions are contributing to climate change and therefore endanger human health and the environment\u2014 has enabled the government to regulate greenhouse gas emissions under the Clean Air Act. The ruling has direct implications on both emissions from, and the stability of, the food system.<\/p>\n

When the EPA proposed getting rid of it in July, the agency relied heavily on a new report produced by a Climate Working Group consisting of five \u201cindependent scientists.\u201d In a press release<\/a> from the Department of Energy at the time, agency officials said the report found \u201cU.S. policy actions are expected to have undetectably small direct impacts on the global climate and any effects will emerge only with long delays.\u201d<\/p>\n

Environmental groups sued the agencies, and the documents released yesterday came out of that lawsuit.<\/p>\n

In a summary<\/a> posted to their website, the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) said the documents show the DOE emphasized the process should be secret, despite the law requiring federal advisory committee meetings to be public. They also said the records show that group members \u201crecognized their objective was to \u2018call into question\u2019 the basis for EPA\u2019s long-standing determination that greenhouse gas pollution endangers public health and welfare.\u201d<\/p>\n

Emails released by the EDF show group members discussing the fact that they barely examined human health<\/a> or welfare impacts during the process. Internal reviewers at the DOE also identified many issues with the scientific rigor of the report, but their comments were mostly ignored.<\/p>\n

\u201cWith court-mandated government disclosure of these records, it is clear that the Trump Administration unlawfully pursued a secretive effort to develop a fatally tainted report, abdicating its responsibility to protect public health and well-being,\u201d Erin Murphy, EDF Senior Attorney\u202fand Director of Clean Air and Energy Markets, said in a statement.<\/p>\n

Experts say climate policy rollbacks since Trump took office are likely to<\/a> make it harder for farmers to grow food, threaten global food security, and lead to<\/a> tens of thousands of premature deaths from pollution exposure. (Link to this post<\/a>.)<\/p>\n

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