About this episode

The episode examines the implications of the EPA's Endangerment Finding and questions the scientific basis behind it amidst political influences.

For more than fifteen years, the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding has been the legal foundation for sweeping federal greenhouse gas regulations—impacting everything from your car to the power grid. But what if the ruling that launched trillions of dollars in climate policy wasn’t the purely scientific document we were told it was? With repeal now back on the table in 2026, new scrutiny reveals troubling questions about how the original decision was made, who shaped it, and whether politics—not...

Topics covered

• climate policy
• greenhouse gas regulations
• EPA
• politics
• science
• environment

Keywords

• EPA
• Endangerment Finding
• greenhouse gases
• climate policy
• regulations
• politics
• science

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: EPA

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