Overview
- Energy Secretary Chris Wright has launched a formal review of all five past National Climate Assessments that were removed from government websites in April.
- The Department of Energy’s new report by five authors questioning the economic harms of global warming is open to public and scientific peer review through September 2.
- The Environmental Protection Agency has opened a comment period on its July proposal to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding that underpins greenhouse-gas regulations.
- The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine announced a fast-track, independent climate assessment to update scientific evidence ahead of the EPA’s decision.
- More than 70 climate scientists coordinated by Andrew Dessler and supported by the American Geophysical Union and American Meteorological Society are drafting formal rebuttals to defend mainstream climate findings.