Statement of Gregory Wrightstone
Executive Director, CO2 Coalition
Re: Repeal of Endangerment Finding
2/12/26
The repeal of the Environmental Protection Agency’s Endangerment Finding by
Administrator Lee Zeldin is cause for celebration. The basis of this wrongheaded climate
regulation put ideology ahead of science. The rule has been an impediment to economic
growth, a cause of rising energy costs and a destroyer of many thousands of jobs at power
plants, coal mines and manufacturing facilities.
Since the 2009 enactment of the Endangerment Finding, its scientific underpinnings have
been found to be even weaker than previously believed and contradicted by empirical data,
peer-reviewed studies and research. Relying on false computer models and
pseudoscience, the Obama EPA erroneously claimed that carbon dioxide and other so-
called greenhouse gases threatened to overheat the Earth. The agency disregarded
complexities of climate dynamics – from solar cycles to clouds to ocean currents. Also
ignored were a mountain of real-world data accumulated over decades and centuries that
disprove the finding that the plant food carbon dioxide is a pollutant.
Rather than an Earth spiraling into man-made climate crises, the facts reveal that
ecosystems are thriving and humanity is benefiting from modest warming and more CO2.
Forests are expanding, deserts are shrinking, agricultural productivity is expanding and
drought is declining. In short, there is no climate crisis and carbon dioxide is a beneficial
gas necessary for life.
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