One agency has been conspicuously missing from White House meetings to discuss revoking the endangerment finding, a key scientific decision that undergirds federal rules on climate change.
It’s EPA — the agency that finalized the landmark finding in 2009.
The agency’s absence at meetings with trade organizations and environmental groups is highly unusual, according to four people who have attended the meetings and one senior EPA official who worked for the Biden administration. It raises questions about who within the Trump administration is leading the effort to revise or revoke the scientific finding that determined human health is imperiled by six greenhouse gases.
“It’s definitely strange,” said Meredith Hankins, a senior attorney with the Natural Resources Defense Council who recalled asking an administration official at a meeting July 15 why EPA wasn’t in attendance.
