One news report after another states that, by its repeal of the Endangerment Finding, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has terminated its own authority to restrict climate pollution. But that is just not true.

For one thing, the repealed authority at issue was conveyed by Congress in the Clean Air Act, as interpreted by US Supreme Court in Massachusetts v EPA (2007). Unless Congress amends that statute or that Court reinterprets it, the authority will remain EPA’s to use – whether in this or by a future Administration. Read more, here. . . .

United Nations Headquarters in New York City, view from Roosevelt Island, Source, Author: Neptuul, License: CC BY-SA 3.0

Guest opinion by Robert Sussman, originally published as part of the Environmental Policy Institute’s Environmental Forum.

2025 was a challenging year for the global response to climate change.

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, which was ratified by the United States and 197 other parties, has endured since the Rio Earth Summit in 1992. Climate negotiations under the Convention have ebbed and flowed for more than three decades but no signatory has previously walked away from the Convention and denounced climate change as a hoax. Read more, here. . . .

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