The Environmental Defense Fund and the Union of Concerned Scientists recently won a court case against the administration which forced it to release of a trove of government documents related to a secretive “Climate Working Group” illegally convened by Energy Secretary Chris Wright. These documents show that the Trump administration secretly enlisted a handpicked group of climate contrarians to write a biased climate report specifically designed to undermine the EPA’s Endangerment Finding.
The EPA finalized the rule overturning the Endangerment Finding on [February 12, 2026]. Although the EPA claimed not to rely on the enormously flawed Climate Working Group report, key aspects of the final action continue to reflect a serious and unlawful disregard of foundational science. …
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One major new revelation in the documents is the Trump administration’s explicit effort to subvert the process of drafting a credible, transparent, scientifically-sound National Climate Assessment. … [I]t is clear that the intent is to weaken and misrepresent the latest science, and interfere with trusted, credible scientific processes, in an attempt to erode the factual basis for taking action to address climate change.
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