Sacramento, CA…Today, Governor Gavin Newsom blasted the Trump administration for repealing the U.S. EPA’s Endangerment Finding, doing the oil industry’s bidding once again while ignoring binding law, overwhelming science, and the lived reality of Californians and the American people. This decision overturns the 2009 scientific determination that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare. That determination has been the legal foundation for nearly all federal actions to curb planet-warming emissions of carbon dioxide and methane, including the authority to regulate vehicle greenhouse gas emissions, one of the nation’s largest sources of climate pollution.
The Clean Air Act could not be clearer: U.S. EPA has an affirmative duty to protect public health and welfare from air pollutants, including greenhouse gases, a responsibility the Supreme Court affirmed in 2007.
“This decision betrays the American people and cements the Republican Party’s status as the pro-pollution party. If this reckless decision survives legal challenges, it will lead to more deadly wildfires, more extreme heat deaths, more climate-driven floods and droughts, and greater threats to communities nationwide—all while the EPA dismisses the overwhelming science that has protected public health for decades.
Donald Trump may put corporate greed ahead of communities and families, but California will not stand by—we will sue to challenge this illegal action, and we will continue fighting climate pollution here in our state. We will continue to lead because the lives and livelihoods of our people depend on it.”
Governor Gavin Newsom
In September 2025, Governor Newsom submitted a formal comment to the U.S. EPA opposing EPA’s proposal to reverse the Endangerment Finding. Watch his video comments and read his full letter.
The cost of Trump’s dereliction of duty will be measured in human lives and economic devastation. In California alone, wildfires fueled by rising temperatures have killed hundreds, destroyed entire communities and tens of thousands of homes, and caused tens of billions of dollars in damage.
“Trump’s U.S. EPA is ignoring what Americans see with their own eyes: climate pollution is burning homes, killing jobs and forests, driving up insurance and food costs, and harming health across the nation,” said California Environmental Protection Agency (CalEPA) Secretary Yana Garcia. “CalEPA will use every authority available to protect clean air, healthy land, and clean water while the federal government turns its back on the health and safety of the American people.”
Extreme heat is now the deadliest climate impact, responsible for more annual deaths than wildfires and floods. Nationwide, the picture is no less dire: in 2023 alone, the United States saw 28 separate climate-driven weather disasters exceeding $1 billion each — the highest number ever recorded — claiming more than 400 American lives and causing $92 billion in damages.
“This proposal isn’t just bad policy — it’s a reckless disregard of basic science and the health of every American,” said California Air Resources Board Chair Lauren Sanchez. “When an administration sides with polluters over people, it doesn’t just abandon commonsense climate action; it abandons our country’s future. But let me be clear: California will not back down. We will continue to stand up for the right to breathe clean air and keep driving forward in every way possible. All options are on the table.”
By siding with polluters over science, U.S. EPA is telling wildfire victims to ignore the flames, flood victims to ignore the rising water, and parents of asthmatic children to ignore the dirty air that chokes their respiratory systems and takes their breath away. That is not leadership — it is an insult.
“Air quality regulations help us breathe cleaner air, producing health benefits across California and the United States and decreasing air pollution-related heart and lung disease. Additional climate change health impacts include increased injury and loss of life due to wildfires and severe storms, increased occurrences of vector-borne and water-borne diseases, and stress and mental trauma from loss of livelihoods, property loss and displacement,” said Dr. Erica Pan, California Department of Public Health Director and State Public Health Officer. “Climate change also disproportionately harms the mental health and well-being of children and youth, with heat, extreme weather, poor air quality, displacement, and other impacts leading to anxiety, depression, sleep troubles, post-traumatic stress disorder, impairment to cognitive development and function, decreases in learning, and other mental health challenges that can have long-term consequences.”
Trump’s war on science and public health
Today’s betrayal of science is part of a sustained campaign to weaken environmental protections, undermine public health, and stifle American innovation. Repealing the Endangerment Finding fits squarely within the broader pattern of actions that prioritize polluters over people and ideology over evidence. To name a few, the Trump administration has:
Weakened how air pollution rules account for public health, no longer considering the economic costs of harm to human health.
Proposed weaker fuel economy standards, a move that will force Americans to spend billions more at the pump, while poisoning the air in our communities.
Allowed coal-burning power plants to emit higher levels of toxic pollutants, including neurotoxins like mercury.
Ended federal investments in electric vehicle markets, undercutting U.S. competitiveness and domestic manufacturing.
Imposed regulatory chaos so severe that companies canceled tens of billions of dollars in clean energy investments in 2025, costing American jobs and slowing innovation.
Beyond rolling back protections, the administration has gone further by attacking scientific integrity itself. Donald Trump has also:
Censored climate science information and restricted federal agencies from using basic terms like “green” or “emissions.”
Enabled polluters to stop disclosing emissions data to the public.
Fired scientists, canceled research programs, deleted scientific datasets, and began to dismantle the national climate research lab in Colorado.
Removed public-facing climate information from government websites.
Allowed Energy Secretary Chris Wright, a government-sanctioned fossil fuel industry lobbyist, to waste taxpayer dollars on an anti-science Department of Energy report authored by handpicked climate deniers, so riddled with falsehoods that 85 independent scientists published a 400+ page takedown, forcing the Trump administration to disband the effort weeks later.
Withdrawn from the United Nations climate framework and 65 other international organizations, surrendering America’s leadership on the world stage, weakening our ability to compete in the economy of the future, and ceding jobs and economic ground to China.
Weakened U.S. global leadership in the race to cut pollution, create jobs, and build the industries of the future by exiting the Paris Agreement for the second time.
California has been fighting back against the Trump administration’s assault on climate protections from the beginning. In September 2025, California joined 24 states across the country, representing 55 percent of the U.S. population, in submitting comments opposing the EPA’s proposal to repeal the Endangerment Finding. The California Air Resources Board also filed detailed comments debunking the U.S. Department of Energy’s fraudulent study that EPA is using to justify eliminating federal climate programs. Through the U.S. Climate Alliance and other coalitions, California continues to challenge the administration’s climate denial and abandonment of science.
California’s climate leadership
Pollution is down and the economy is up. Greenhouse gas emissions in California are down 21% since 2000 — even as the state’s GDP increased 81% in that same time period, all while becoming the world’s fourth largest economy.
California also continues to set clean energy records. In 2023, the state was powered by two-thirds clean energy, the largest economy in the world to achieve this level. California has also run on 100% clean electricity for part of the day almost every day this year.
Since the beginning of the Newsom Administration, battery storage has surged to nearly 17,000 megawatts — a 2,100%+ increase, and over 30,000 megawatts of new resources have been added to the electric grid. California now has 33% of the storage capacity estimated to be needed by 2045 to reach 100% clean electricity.
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FUCK YOU NEWSOM
HAPPY PRESIDENT TRUMP DAY TO EVERYONE…even the scum known as DUMPACRAPS
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
It’s great being a thorn in your side trailer trash…,,,
The world’s air is a punch bowl.
The Climate deniers are the turd in the bowl.
So proud of spoiling the air we all breathe .
maga- the turd in so many ways, so many things.
Being that humans are the cause of climate change, it makes you wonder what the native americans did to cause the oceans to rise over 400′ after they crossed the land bridge. We can’t even get it to rise an inch. The native americans owe reparations to us all for their climate crimes!
Not only their climate crimes, but the savages killed off the woolly mammoth, saber-toothed tiger, and giant ground sloth along with hundreds of other species with their lust to kill just for the sport of it! Disgusting!
The Miwok indians have been around for 500 to 1000 years in our area, but the majority of the archaeologic sites, like the ones that delayed the Hwy 4 project, date way older than that. Are there any Miwok reading this that can tell me who they stole their land from??
TACO
If you think and believe this BS go a head, just like the median you Tards lost your heads on, the climate is not controlled by any of us, but there is one who controls every bit of this, and you deny his diety so there you go! Live in fear, fear will kill you before “CLIMATE” will!
Just like Trump wants you to believe inflation is cooling? Anyone who shops know it’s a blatant lie!!
Well, I bought a dozen eggs for 98 cents yesterday over in Jackson. Couldn’t do that when Biden was around.
Did you buy any beef, pork or chicken?? Prices are still high how about milk?? Bacon $10 a pound ?? How are those health insurance prices? Ours doubled and Trumps RX is nothing but a search engine. What a joke
Chicken was $1.99 at Savemart last week. Ground beef $2.99. Stocked up on Rib-eye roast for $8.99 a couple weeks ago. Bacon I got for $4.99. Last pork shoulder I got was $2.99. Milk was $3.48 yesterday in Jackson, eggs 98 cents.
Our insurance did not rise, thank God I don’t have your insurance.
But I can see where you are probably having trouble seeing the difference, being that you don’t know if you’re a boy or a girl or one of the other 78 genders.
We could afford healthcare when Biden was around!!!!
Ground beef $2.99 a lb? Fuax Entertainment Fantasy
Savemart has ground beef at $2.99lb for three days this week. Just because you are too dumb to shop well doesn’t make your altered reality true.
Bacon $4.99 a lb must have been real good stuff. It’s $10 a lb at Safeway and Save Mart. Cherry picking prices out of adds don’t cut it
Then pay more for your food, doesn’t bother me. I think you enjoy having something to bitch about.
That ground beef was all fat it’s good if you are feeding your dog. Good thing you have good health care when you have a heart attack from eating that crap. Ground round is $8 a lb
CA diesel sells at $4.85 a gallon, don’t you think transportation cost in CA might be adding to the cost of everything?
Who are you going to blame when the cost of diesel doubles? Come April another refinery closes. In the last 2 weeks gas prices rose $.40 that’s going to be a minor amount very soon.
The Big Thank you goes to the democrats you keep voting for, so it’s partly your fault…..Moron
Gavy, did the “first partner” take you down yesterday in front of the entire world”? Could you explain “first partner “ for all of us?
Jennifer stands up when she pee’s
I hope Jennifer gave Gavy a big wet french kiss when she got home from Harvey’s.
Weak.
Like your intelligence
Steve Hilton for Governor
Steve Hilton !!! Haaaaa hoooo heeeee!! What a clown !! He doesn’t have a snow chance in hell
We’ll See
^^If you believe “We’ll See” when referring to the joke Steve Hilton, you are a full blown MAGA indoctrinated gullible sheep like fool. Period.
Don’t bother replying fool, we already see your obvious failings as a human being.
The last 11 years have been the hottest 11 years on record, and if you are from around here you know there is supposed to be way more snow this time of year. Climate change is just facts.
Boy, you would have been really disappointed to see how much ice and snow was up the hill before the indians melted it all!!
Boy you really swallowed big oil’s propaganda!
If you are a school student, you are more likely to be shot dead than an ICE agent.
They are snowflakes, when they say if their face is uncovered, they are more likely to be shot.
$85 billion for DHS in the big shytty bill they passed.
Why is the debt rising?
70,000 in ICE concentration camps @ $780/day =
$54600000/day.
Obama, Biden deported, one plane fare is way less $.
Why is the FED debt so high?
That’s cheaper then what illegals cost CA taxpayers every year. You would know that if you actually paid taxes, instead of receiving taxpayer’s dollars like a CA liberal leech always bitching about how unfair life is, while doing nothing to make your miserable life better.
It’s Friday the 13th, anyone have a good thing to say about living in the greatest country in the world? By the way I-think Biden should get credit for importing between five and 30 million illegals, he is still my “hero, best president ever, slept through the whole thing!
They need to give Nancy Guthries daughter and her husband a lie detector test, wadda u think? Last two to see her before she was abducted!
Anyone belong to “Car Shield”?
Valentines weekend, fresh POW, a “BIG” cross county basketball game tonight, blue skies, lots to b thankful for, go out and enjoy!
Just going through the comments, health care costs, if all you men hadn’t been draft dodgers you would have been eligible for VA benefits, too bad, too late, I know like AOC proclaimed just recently, Veterans are worse than WELFARE PARTICIPANTS, THEY NEED TO GROW UP, GET A JOB AND QUIT WHINING, WE NEED TO HELP IMMIGRANTS OUT, JUST WHAT A GOOD COMMIE WOULD SAY AND FEEL!
Thank You Sgt. Slaughter.
What a Fn idiot you are . You have a very small view of the world. How sad
I’m a veteran and VA healthcare sucks plane and simple
Many Fox brain washed comments as usual.
Biden, Obama deported more migrants than the condon.
$85 billion for profit making anti migrant industry in America.
As with wars for profit, they profit from 70,000 in detention camps. Deport them DUH.
The Obamacare subsidies are much less than the cost of the taco tariffs, and subsidized healthcare.
So corruption is the trade mark of the GOP now.
Corruption, and climate change denial, a hoax eh?
Where did the 10,000 year old glaciers go?
Just more lies from the Republicans, oligarchs.
Why don’t you get a job? Why must democrats always rely on others for something they should be capable of doing themselves? When will you take off your panties and put on your big boy pants for a change? What a disgusting way to be, a bum, lazy, whining like a Karen, give me this, give me that, I don’t like republicans, they want me to rely on myself, and I can’t because I’m very special, oh the pain I have to endure everyday. Look at my hands, I got a blister here once and it wasss ssooo big I had to go to emergency to have a Dr look at it. He was mean and laughed at me. I could of died, I actually had to go home and popped it myself!!! It was soooo painful, I’ve never been able to use my hand again, except when I have my period, you dumb republicans don’t even know us men can menstruate, did you? There’s a reason when you spell it it starts out with m e n
you dummies
MAGA Republicans are low IQ …
^^^Typical response from a local Trumpster upon reading above statement:
Huh?