Change the Chamber Denounces Endangerment Finding Rollback as “Climate Denial Dressed Up As Policy”
By Camille Rohde, Deepshikha Ola and Evey Mengelkoch, July 30, 2025
CTC strongly condemns the EPA’s proposal to repeal the Endangerment Finding, a reckless, anti-science move that empowers polluters and endangers communities. This rollback ignores decades of legal precedent, threatens public health, and abandons the EPA’s core mission to protect people and the planet.
“As a youth-led climate coalition, Change the Chamber is appalled by the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposal to repeal its Endangerment Finding. This extreme deregulatory move is a crass policy initiative that goes against nearly two decades of case law, scientific literature, and environmental policy. This decision by the EPA fundamentally undermines its core function–to protect human health and safeguard our environment.
The Endangerment Finding is a foundational safeguard that recognizes that greenhouse gases–and the climate change they cause–are a threat to public health and the environment, thereby permitting regulation of them. Rolling back this critical guardrail removes a backstop against worsening environmental harms at a time when communities across the country are already facing rising temperatures, extreme weather patterns, and dangerous storms. This rollback gives more power to polluters, essentially saying, “Go Wild,” while weakening protections for vulnerable populations. Repealing findings that protect our finances and health will not fix an economy that’s decidedly unjust and unsustainable.
The notion that clawing back the Endangerment Finding will generate cost savings is pure folly. When unregulated pollution runs rampant, it fuels financial chaos through worsening climate disasters. Unchecked greenhouse gas emissions fuel global warming–putting stress on our national grid, our natural resources, our health, and our pocketbooks. Rolling back the Endangerment Finding will only pile undue costs on the backs of everyday Americans through surging utility rates, difficulty finding home insurance, and soaring grocery prices–consequences of climate change. Repealing the Endangerment Finding doesn’t erase those costs–it piles on more debt, leaving young people to pay with their health and future. Removing science-based safeguards sends a clear and dangerous message that legal precedent, scientific evidence, and public health concerns can be simply swept aside when politically convenient.
The Endangerment Finding has withstood years of legal scrutiny and remains one of the most robust frameworks we have for protecting ourselves from climate-related harms. It’s not simply a regulatory tool but a baseline recognition of the lived realities of many. Tossing it aside ignores the realities that communities are already facing due to the climate crisis. The EPA was created to protect people and the environment, not polluters. We cannot afford to cater to political whims at the expense of our ecosystems and our lives. As a coalition of young adults, Change the Chamber will continue to urge the EPA to continually acknowledge that climate change is harming our communities and insist the EPA uphold the mission it was created for–protecting our environment. This rollback isn’t neutral–it’s a choice to ignore science and gamble with our future.”
Camille Rohde, Deepshikha Ola, Evey Mengelkoch, and the National Climate Fellows at Change the Chamber
Change The Chamber is a nonpartisan coalition of young adults, 100+ student groups across the country, environmental justice and frontline community groups, and other allied organizations.