The Climate Beat Goes On
My response to 10 questions from the Associated Press on the DOE CWG report
Roger Pielke Jr.
Aug 12, 2025
“Gonna catch us a climate skeptic!”
Last week I was contacted by two reporters at the Associated Press with a request to comment on the Department of Energy’s Climate Working Group (DOE CWG) report and the proposal by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to rescind the 2009 greenhouse gas endangerment finding:
We’re Seth Borenstein and Michael Phillis, reporters on the climate and environment team at The Associated Press. As you know last week, the Trump administration’s EPA proposed rescinding the 2009 Endangerment Finding on climate change. It did so with two documents. One was the actual EPA proposal and the other was the Department of Energy Climate Working Group’s “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” We have decided to ask the authors of every science-oriented reference in both documents about this. That’s why we are contacting you.
The reporters explained:
We are contacting well more than 100 scientists and experts like yourself to get a broad sense of the documents’ scientific accuracy so not everyone who answers will be quoted but if you do answer, and we would be appreciative, you will definitely help guide us to write a story with depth and authority.
With this post I am sharing the reporters’ questions and my answers. This allows THB readers to see how journalism is practiced on the “climate beat.” Once the AP writes their story, readers will be able to see how my replies are included, or not.
https://rogerpielkejr.substack.com/p/the-climate-beat-goes-on
