Jean Chemnick

Have any EPA staff NOT been notified they're exempted or excluded from furlough? I'd love to hear from you! on Signal at jchemnick.01.

DOE climate report could create problems for EPA The agency may need to ditch its scientific justification for repealing the endangerment finding that underpins most climate rules.

The DOE climate report creates a lot of problems for EPA's endangerment finding for greenhouse gases. It will be interesting to see if EPA uses it in the final, or if decides to just double down on legal arguments:

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‘Con,’ ‘scam,’ ‘hoax’: Trump’s UN speech on climate The president used a large chunk of his speech to world leaders to condemn climate science and clean energy policies.

Trump's UN speech was one of his most unfiltered and extended climate denial riffs ever, full of falsehoods, lies and distortions.

“I’m really good at predicting things...I don’t say that in a braggadocios way, but it’s true. I’ve been right about everything.”

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EPA is moving fast to finalize its repeal of the 2009 endangerment finding for greenhouse gases and tailpipe emissions rules. Internal notes and slides show options for the final rule will be selected this week and next. Public comment closed Monday.

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EPA proposal puts US gas exporters in a bind The bid to halt greenhouse gas reporting could cause problems for petroleum companies — especially those hoping to sell gas to the EU.

The oil and gas industry didn't expect EPA to suspend its greenhouse gas reporting, and for the most part it doesn't see it doing the sector any favors. I focus mostly on challenges it could create for gas exports to the E.U., but there are other issues. www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

EPA attacks climate science. Here are the facts. The Trump administration's proposal to roll back the endangerment finding includes many misleading and inaccurate claims.

The Trump administration's climate science report is riddled with cherry-picked data, sweeping claims easily contradicted by a vast body of research and long-debunked climate denial tropes. @chelseaeharvey.bsky.social and I fact-check some claims here: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

EPA Releases Proposal to Rescind Obama-Era Endangerment Finding, Regulations that Paved the Way for Electric Vehicle Mandates | US EPA The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which has been used to justify over $1 trillion in regu...

Here's EPA's press release announcing its intent to rescind the 2009 Endangerment Finding about GHGs. www.epa.gov/newsreleases...

The document should be available here -- but [metaphor alert] the link is currently broken... www.epa.gov/regulations-...

So, anybody know who might be live streaming #EPA's endangerment finding announcement at 2 ET? Because the agency isn't going to do it, even though #Zeldin called it the "the largest deregulatory action in the history of America" this morning on the Ruthless podcast.

POLITICO Pro: EPA to launch plan Tuesday for undoing climate rule cornerstone EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin is planning to announce the move at an Indiana transportation facility.

EPA will move tomorrow to revoke the endangerment finding, the foundation for all US climate regulations, and emissions limits for cars and trucks.

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin will make the announcement in Indiana.

w/ @chemnick.bsky.social

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Israeli military says airdrops of aid into Gaza set to begin tonight amid increased starvation deaths For months, the U.N. and experts have warned that Palestinians in Gaza are at risk of famine, with reports of increasing numbers of people dying from causes related to malnutrition.

"Airdrops will not reverse the deepening starvation," UNRWA chief Philippe Lazzarini wrote on X on Saturday. "They are expensive, inefficient & can even kill starving civilians. It is a distraction & screensmoke."

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EPA’s endangerment gambit could cause rules to spring back The agency appears poised to tie its deregulatory agenda to undoing the 2009 scientific finding behind most climate rules.

www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

Could EPA rely too much on the endangerment finding gambit and end up with the Biden rules back in force?

The Trump administration's proposal on the endangerment finding is coming -- possibly tomorrow. I'd love to talk to anyone with intel about how OIRA (and EPA) are going to try and do this. I'm on Signal at jchemnick.01.

EPA shuffles major climate program office The office created under President Joe Biden to run the $27 billion Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund has been turned into an oversight arm.

EPA's latest reorg moved oversight of the IRA "green banks" program out of the air pollution office and into a new "Office of Finance and Administration." The program's former career director, who had been placed on administrative leave, is at WRI: www.eenews.net/articles/epa...

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Key climate change reports removed from US government websites The national climate assessments help state and local governments prepare for the impacts of a warming world

Key climate change reports removed from US government websites #Climate

We're hearing that the Trump administration's repeal of EPA carbon curbs for the power sector will probably come out Wednesday, along with the MATs rule rollback. Anyone out there know exactly what's in it?

I'm on Signal at jchemnick.01

quote on a dark blue and purple background from Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), criticizing proposed cuts to science funding in the FY26 U.S. federal budget. The quote reads: “If enacted, the FY26 budget request would end America’s global scientific leadership. The cuts to science would imperil our nation’s future health, security and prosperity. This budget proposal stands in stark contrast to the President’s call for a renewed commitment to American scientific leadership. Congress has demonstrated a bipartisan commitment to investment in research and must do so again to answer the President’s call.” The quote is attributed to Sudip S. Parikh, CEO of AAAS and Executive Publisher of the Science family of journals. The AAAS logo appears at the bottom right.

I don't think anyone outside of universities, pharma and biotech, independent research institutions have any idea of what is happening right now. If you haven't sounded the alarm among your friends, family and colleagues, now is the time to do it.

Inside EPA’s backdoor bid to stop regulating climate pollution The agency’s expected justification for overturning the power plant rule could also absolve it from regulating other industries’ planet-warming

We'll see how EPA threads the needle on the power sector's "finding of significant contribution" next month, when it proposes its repeal of Biden-era power regs. Here's my piece about some of the legal challenges it will face: www.eenews.net/articles/ins...

EPA seems poised to use (at least) two separate strategies to tackle GHG endangerment: taking on the 2009 finding itself, and trying to argue that power plant emissions aren't a "significant" contributor to public endangerment.

www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/o...

I'd love to connect with current or former EPA staff on climate policy: endangerment finding, power plant carbon rule, grants, etc. I'm on Signal at jchemnick.01

If you're an EPA employee working on climate who has recently been placed on administrative leave, I'm at jchemnick.01 on Signal. Please get in touch!

A DOGE Aide Involved in Dismantling Consumer Bureau Owns Stock in Companies That Could Benefit From the Cuts Gavin Kliger helped oversee mass firings at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau while holding stock in companies that experts say likely stand to benefit from dismantling that agency — a potentia...

NEW: A DOGE staffer who is helping carry out the downsizing of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau owns stock in companies that could benefit from the agency’s dismantling, ProPublica has found.

I don't know if it's a foregone conclusion that it will. We'll see what happens later in the month. The panel did agree to an expedited schedule.

E&E News: Zeldin’s plan for endangerment finding: Accept warming, contest its costs The EPA administrator's strategy for dismantling the scientific justification for climate rules could focus on the costs to industry.

EPA's endangerment finding redo may not be about science. It might be about cost instead.

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White House Proposal Could Gut Climate Modeling the World Depends On Potential funding cuts for NOAA and its research partners threaten irreparable harm not only to climate research but to American safety, competitiveness, and national security.

The proposed cuts to NOAA cold have profound consequences not just for climate change, but for our national security and the entire economy. Here's what I learned: www.propublica.org/article/trum...

Rubio eliminates office that oversees climate talks The Office of Global Change was notified Thursday that it would be shuttered.

State Department eliminates Office of Global Change, which has led US involvement in UNFCCC, IPCC, etc

* Telling the courts, I mean. So tired...