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Energy Department Moves to Overhaul National Climate Assessments as Scientists Mobilize

Experts are racing to submit public comments on the DOE’s controversial economic impact report on warming before the September 2 deadline

TOPSHOT - An aerial view shows a destroyed home in Surfside Beach, Texas, on July 8, 2024, after Hurricane Beryl made landfall. Hurricane Beryl made landfall July 8 in the southern US state of Texas, killing at least two people and causing millions to lose power amid dangerous winds and flooding, as some coastal areas remained under evacuation orders. (Photo by Mark Felix / AFP) (Photo by MARK FELIX/AFP via Getty Images)
Power generating wind turbines tower over the rural landscape near Pomeroy, Iowa, on July 5.
Chris Wright appears before the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources for his confirmation hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC, on January 15.
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Overview

  • Energy Secretary Chris Wright announced on August 7 that the administration will review and potentially update all past National Climate Assessments, which have been removed from federal websites.
  • A DOE-commissioned report by five appointed skeptics argues that CO₂-driven warming is less economically damaging than widely believed and is open for public comment through September 2.
  • Climate researchers are drafting detailed rebuttals and organizing to submit comments to counter what they call misrepresentations of consensus science.
  • Earlier in 2025, the administration cut USGCRP funding and dismissed nearly 400 contributors to the NCA process, moves critics say threaten the integrity of peer-reviewed climate research.
  • Observers warn that the NCA overhaul and the skeptical report will shape legal challenges over the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding, which underpins U.S. greenhouse gas regulations.