 Photo from Union of Concerned Scientists website The Trump Administration has revoked a Clean Air Act finding dating from 2009 that has been the basis for climate pollution regulations here in the United States. That 2009 finding determined that pollutants from developing and burning fossil fuels, such as methane and carbon dioxide, could be regulated under the Clean Air Act. For more than 15 years, that scientific determination formed the legal backbone of federal climate protections. Known as the “endangerment finding,” this rule recognized what decades of science made clear: air and climate pollution harms people. The Environmental Protection Agency now argues that the Clean Air Act does not give it the legal authority to regulate greenhouse gases. The administration’s decision comes after three of the hottest years ever recorded. On February 12, 2026, the Trump administration repealed the bedrock scientific finding that greenhouse gases threaten human life and the environment. In other words, the Environmental Protect Agency will no longer regulate and control the pollution that is dangerously heating the planet. This action is a key step in removing limits on carbon dioxide, methane, and four other greenhouse gases that scientists say are supercharging heat waves, droughts, wildfires, and other extreme weather. <continued--please read>
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When we see land as a community to which we belong, we may begin to use it with love and respect.... Conservation, viewed in its entirety, is the slow and laborious unfolding of a new relationship between people and land." There is in fact no distinction between the fate of the land and the fate of the people. When one is abused, the other suffers. From the PresidentSCP President Chuck Roe looked at land conservation along the route of John Muir's "Southern Trek." About ViewpointThis blog offers views of our Board and partners. We invite your viewpoint on the following questions: Archives
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