EARTHDAY.ORG Joins Scientists in Condemning Trump Administration’s Politically Motivated Climate Report

Washington, DC (September 4, 2025) – EARTHDAY.ORG (EDO), the world’s largest environmental movement, is standing firmly with more than 85 leading scientists who have condemned a new Trump administration report that attempts to downplay the dangers of climate change.

In July, the U.S. The Department of Energy (DOE) released its report “A Critical Review of Impacts of Greenhouse Gas Emissions on the U.S. Climate.” However some of the world’s top scientists quickly identified the report as deeply flawed, riddled with errors, selective citations, and cherry-picked data designed to support the president’s political agenda rather than the scientific truth.

In response, leading climate experts issued a detailed  459 page response rebuttal, exposing the DOE document as scientifically unsound and potentially dangerous. 

“Let’s be clear: this is politics versus science,” said Susan Bass, SVP, EARTHDAY.ORG. “This administration is undermining scientists at every turn to protect fossil fuel profits—while ordinary Americans in Texas, Florida, California and beyond, suffer through ever-worsening floods, fires, and hurricanes. Climate change isn’t theory, it’s their lived reality.”

“This fight is not about ideology—it’s about evidence and survival,” said Kathleen Rogers, President of EARTHDAY.ORG. “The DOE report ignores overwhelming consensus because it cannot defend the truth: greenhouse gases endanger human health and our safety, period.”

The widely discredited DOE report appears to be laying the groundwork for yet another attack on the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Endangerment Finding, the 2009 landmark decision affirming greenhouse gases as a threat to human health and welfare—an essential safeguard now under threat. The Endangerment Finding provides the critical legal foundation for the EPA to regulate climate pollution from vehicles, power plants, oil and gas operations, and other major sources—making it a vital tool in the fight to protect Americans from the escalating impacts of climate change

“We are calling on every citizen of this country to fight back and defend your children’s right to a safe, healthy future.  One where they breathe clean air and drink clean water. Write to the EPA and tell them you want them to protect the Endangerment Finding,” says Aidan Charron, Associate Director, Global, Earth Day. “Demand that our government stick to the facts when dealing with climate change.”

About EARTHDAY.ORG: EARTHDAY.ORG’s mission is to diversify, educate, and activate the environmental movement worldwide. Growing out of the first Earth Day on April 22, 1970, today it engages over one billion people annually in over 190 countries.

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