House Science Dems demand details about EPA’s endangerment reversal

Two senior House Science Committee Democrats are demanding that EPA hand over extensive records related to its July proposal to repeal a key scientific finding on climate pollution.

California Rep. Zoe Lofgren, the committee’s ranking member, and Rhode Island Rep. Gabe Amo, ranking member of the Environment Subcommittee, wrote EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin a scathing letter Monday. In it, they excoriate Zeldin for proposing to undo the 2009 endangerment finding, which establishes that greenhouse gases threaten public health and legally underpins most Clean Air Act climate rules.

“[A]s evidenced by nearly every action you’ve taken as administrator, you place the bottom line of polluting industry over the interests of the American people, time and time again,” the pair stated in Monday’s letter, which was shared exclusively with POLITICO’s E&E News. “It is hard to pick the most damning example of your twisted priorities, but the July 29th, 2025, announcement of your intention to rescind the Endangerment Finding is surely near the top.”

Lofgren and Amo pointed to Zeldin’s public statements about the Obama administration’s process in writing the original finding — including repeated and untrue assertions that the administration did not take public comment.

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