The Retire Advocate
August
2025
Here Is a Guide to Make it Easy to Submit Comments Opposing EPA Revoking the Endangerment Finding on Greenhouse Gases
Comments Due by Sept 15. Let’s Overwhelm Their Inbox!
Anne Shields
Trump’s Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued a proposal to revoke the endangerment finding and vehicle emission standards for greenhouse gases (GHG). The proposal relies on fringe science and misinterpretations of the law tojustify a conclusion that the EPA should not regulate GHG.
Here is the link to submit your comment to EPA by September 15: https://www.regulations.gov/commenton/EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194-0093
Mom’s Clean Air Force has provided a template and examples that you can use in writing your comments:
1. Introduction & ask:
My name is [NAME] and I’m from [STATE]. I urge EPA not to rescind the Endangerment Finding. This rule is crucial to protect our communities and future generations from the impacts of climate-warming pollution.
2. Tell your story:
Share how extreme weather and cli- mate change is impacting you and your family, your community, your future, or yourchildren’s future. How have you and your family and community been impacted by wildfires, floods, extreme heat, orother extreme weather? What do those impacts look like?
3. Include a few facts, for example:
· Climate change is caused by green- house gases emitted from burning fossil fuels like coal, oil, and gas.These gases trap heat in the atmosphere and warm the planet, supercharging dangerous extreme weather.
· More intense and more common extreme weather can lead to worsened asthma, allergies, respiratoryillnesses, adverse birth outcomes, Lyme disease, economic costs, and much more.
· In 2024, the US had 27 climate disasters that each caused over $1 billion in damages(Climate.gov).
· Today’s children are expected to face 3 times more extreme weather disasters than their grandparents(Earth. org).
4. Close your comments by restating your opposition:
Once again, I strongly oppose this proposal to rescind the Endangerment Finding. The EPA needs to fulfill its mission of protecting human health and the environment.
To learn more:
See Third Act’s online Action Alert about EPA’s authority and obligation to limit deadly greenhouse gases:
https://thirdact.org/act/urgent-tell-the-epa-dont-gut-the-climate-rule-that- protects-our-health-and-safety/
Earth Justice has a brief, straightforward legal analysis describing what revoking the rule would mean: https://earthjustice.org/experts/hana-vizcarra/a-legal-analysis-of-the-trump-epas-plan-to-revoke-the-endangerment-finding
Anne Shields is a member of Third Act and an active member of PSARA's Climate and Environmental Justice Committee
