The Trump administration is making the conspiratorial denial of climate science the official policy of the United States government.
The Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin has proposed a new rulemaking, “Reconsideration of 2009 Endangerment Finding and Greenhouse Gas Vehicle Standards.”
The proposed rule relies on a report by a group of five prominent climate deniers commissioned by Secretary of Energy Chris Wright, “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.”
Wright, a former fracking executive, formed the “Climate Working Group” of evangelical conservatives John Christy and Roy Spencer, oil-industry consultant Judith Curry, Canadian evangelical economist Ross McKitrick, and BP physicist Steve Koonin.
Public comment on the proposed rule is open until September 21, with a virtual public hearing scheduled for August 19 and 20. EPA economist Beth Miller is the contact person for the hearing, at (734) 214–4703 or [email protected]. People wishing to speak will be given three minutes each.
The introduction to the reconsideration: