Endangerment

2025 April

2025-04-22 The Economic Policy Institute reported on “How Trump’s erasure of environmental data is endangering communities of color”.

https://www.epi.org/blog/how-trumps-erasure-of-environmental-data-is-endangering-communities-of-color/

2025 July

2025-07-01 The Trump administration purged climate-change reports and globalchange.gov.

https://nca2023.globalchange.gov/ NO LONGER WORKING

https://www.globalchange.gov/ NO LONGER WORKING

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jul/01/climate-change-reports-removed-trump

2025-07-29 The Trump administration attempted to repeal a 2009 EPA endangerment finding that greenhouse gas emissions are air pollutants that endanger public health and welfare.

https://eelp.law.harvard.edu/tracker/greenhouse-gas-endangerment-finding/

https://nam.org/epa-moves-to-rescind-2009-greenhouse-gas-endangerment-finding-34497/

https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-releases-proposal-rescind-obama-era-endangerment-finding-regulations-paved-way

https://www.environmentalprotectionnetwork.org/environmental-protection-network-condemns-dismantling-of-epas-office-of-environmental-justice-and-external-civil-rights-termination-of-staff-and-loss-of-critical-grant-funding/

2025 November

2025-11-26 The Trump administration reduced air pollution reduction requirements.

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/nov/26/trump-epa-deadly-soot-pollution-rule

2026 January

2026-01-07 Trump signed a memorandum to eliminate the White House Office of Domestic Climate Policy.

https://www.actonclimate.com/trumptracker/

https://www.americanprogress.org/article/the-trump-administrations-retreat-from-global-climate-leadership/

2026-01-14 The EPA stated they would stop calculating how much money is saved in health care costs and how many deaths were prevented by air pollution reduction measures.

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/epa-stop-calculating-deaths-avoided-health-care-savings-air-pollution-rcna254021

2026 March

2026-03-09 After US strikes on oil facilities in Iran, toxic “black rain” fell over Tehran, shrouded the city in toxic smoke clouds, and rendered air quality toxic to health and environment.

https://www.nbcnews.com/world/iran/iran-war-israel-us-tehran-oil-refineries-acid-rain-global-markets-rcna262390

https://www.forbes.com/sites/zacharyfolk/2026/03/08/black-toxic-rain-falls-on-tehran-after-air-strikes-hit-oil-refineries/

https://time.com/7383099/iran-news-oil-strikes-tehran/

https://ceobs.org/black-rain-the-health-and-environmental-risks-from-tehrans-oil-fires/

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2518718-why-is-black-rain-falling-on-iran-and-how-dangerous-is-it/