What are the plans to respond. No, this is not specifically in our policy categories, but this foundational legal/scientific framework underpins our overarching goal of advocating for policies that reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
I hope a key part of CCL's plan is to prepare and submit to EPA a considered response for the public comment period. I intend to do that as an individual, but our organization obviously has far more weight.
@John Skoug This crosses a threshold that warrants a response. In true CCL style, we’re gathering information and consulting our alliance partners to decide the best way to move forward. More soon!
@Ricky Bradley thank you. Please know that ordinary volunteers have been asking about this and it would be very discouraging on the ground to not see a response.
@John Skoug The Marin/Sonoma CA Chapters will host Dr. Ben Santer next Saturday just ahead of the National call. He will deliver remarks that should guide CCL's response.
Dr. Ben Santer: Denying Reality, DOE and EPA try to reverse 30 years of progress
Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 0900 AM Pacific Time here: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84835301244
Last week, the US Department of Energy and the Environmental Protection Agency released statements aimed at rolling back decades of progress on climate change. A small group of well known climate “skeptics” have again challenged the world’s scientific consensus in a non-peer reviewed report. Simultaneously, the EPA announced its intention to reverse its 2009 “Endangerment Finding,” the legal basis for US regulations limiting GHG emissions, which was based on the 2007 5-4 Supreme Court decision in Massachusetts vs. EPA.
Renowned climate scientist, Dr. Ben Santer is not taking this lying down. Having devoted his entire career to better understanding the human impacts of burning fossil fuels, he’s again ready to defend the science, as he’s done many times before. After 30 years working at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, leading assessment reports for the IPCC, authoring innumerable peer-reviewed publications, receiving numerous awards, being elected to the National Academy of Sciences and receiving appointments at other major institutions, Dr. Santer remains a fierce advocate for the science now under attack -- and he’s still in fight mode.
Come prepared to hear an earful at the Marin/Sonoma California Chapters’ meeting on Saturday, August 9, 2025 at 0900 AM Pacific Time here:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84835301244
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@Ricky Bradley We look forward to hearing your strategy for responding to this outrage, which is so nakedly political payback. See this.
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