Source: United States House of Representatives – Congressman Jared Huffman Representing the 2nd District of California
February 11, 2026
Washington, D.C. – Today, House Natural Resources Committee Ranking Member Jared Huffman (D-Calif.) released the following statement after the Trump administration announced it would finalize the repeal of the EPA’s 2009 Endangerment Finding this week, the scientific determination that greenhouse gas emissions threaten public health and wellbeing:
“While families are losing their homes to wildfires, burying loved ones after catastrophic storms, and watching their insurance premiums explode, the Trump administration is giving billionaire polluters a free pass to make it all worse. Their answer is to rip up one of our most fundamental protections against climate pollution just so Big Oil can keep profiting while the planet burns.
“The fossil fuel industry spent decades lying to the public, dodging accountability, and dumping the cost of climate destruction onto taxpayers. Now they’re being rewarded with a full repeal of the Endangerment Finding. Every court that reviewed this protection upheld it. The science is beyond dispute. But none of that matters to Trump when his donors come calling.
“This will mean dirtier air, higher health care costs, higher energy costs, and undoubtedly cost American lives. It’s corruption. It’s cowardice. And it’s a betrayal of every American family who deserves clean air, a livable future, and a government that doesn’t bow to oil tycoons.
“There will be accountability for the climate crisis that was caused, covered up, and dramatically worsened by Big Oil. But that imperative now falls to the courts, litigants, states, and members of Congress with the integrity to put the interests of the public and the planet above Big Oil’s bottom line.
“It’s a bailout for Big Oil billionaires, plain and simple. Trump’s proven he’ll sell out our clean air and with it, every American, if the price is right for Big Oil.”
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