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Denying science no longer works, so the federal government is pretending the climate crisis doesn’t exist at all. The science explaining how fossil fuels contribute to climate change has been clear for decades. Now that communities around the country (and the globe) are experiencing more frequent and severe weather events, the realities of climate change are impossible to deny. And few do: 72 percent of American voters surveyed in 2024 acknowledged that the earth’s climate is warming—sending climate deniers scrambling to come up with a new schtick. Enter President Trump’s second term. President Donald Trump spent a lot of time denying science in his first term. This time around, his administration is taking a more backhanded approach: baking climate denial into how federal agencies conduct their basic duties. By attacking the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). “Over the past 15 years or so, more than 99 percent of U.S. congressional districts had at least one federally declared major disaster due to extreme weather,” says Dr. Laurie Geller, a climate scientist in NRDC’s science office. “This administration seems to think that if they just pretend these climate change risks aren’t happening, then they have no responsibility to do their job and help protect the American people.” On the very first day of his second term, President Trump asked the EPA to make a recommendation on whether to reconsider its 2009 endangerment finding that the greenhouse gases that cause climate change also threaten public health and welfare. The finding lists risks such as increases in air pollution, temperatures, extreme weather events, and food- and waterborne illnesses. Because it proved these dangers—robustly backed by the scientific record—the EPA must take action through the Clean Air Act to curb emissions of carbon dioxide, methane, and four other climate pollutants. So the agency has, in turn, set emissions caps on everything from coal-fired power plants and methane leaks from oil and gas wells to tailpipe emissions from cars and other vehicles. While the current EPA is yet to make its decision regarding the endangerment finding, there are a few likely possibilities. “The worst-case scenario, but also probably the hardest for them to do, would be to outright deny the climate science and just take a sledgehammer to all EPA climate regulations from the last two decades,” says Meredith Hankins, NRDC’s federal climate legal director. Another potential move would be to not fully repeal the finding but limit its scope—say, apply emissions standards to certain sources, like cars, but not to others, such as power plants. Or, Hankins says, EPA officials could acknowledge “that climate science is real, but then they try to make excuses for why they don't think the EPA should have to regulate climate pollution.” Any of these decisions would be a blow to climate pollution reduction efforts—it’s just a question of how severe. The goal remains the same, says Hankins. “They want to make corporations money, and they don't care about the impacts on people.” The new language of climate denial The Trump administration is also policing the language used on government websites, grant proposals, and other communications. Climate science and pollution are on the administration’s list of words to limit or avoid in research and public-facing communications. This act of censorship tries to curb any activities that may promote climate action and, subsequently, ding fossil fuel industry profits. In the months since taking office, this administration has hamstrung the federal agencies and grant recipients responsible for (among other things) addressing the climate . Countless programs and agencies, such as the National Park Service, have seen their budgets slashed unlawfully and their workforces illegally shrunk to a skeleton crew, hobbling the remaining staff’s ability to do their jobs.
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