Trump’s Endangerment

Human activities and industrialization in particular have led to increases in atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations that are unprecedented in records spanning hundreds of thousands of years. US Fifth National Climate Assessment, Nov. 14, 2023.

On December 7, 2009, the Obama administration accepted the endangerment finding that, finally, brought fossil fuels in the power of the rule of law. That is, the endangerment finding confirmed that burning fossil fuels harms human health: “The...