A Call to Stewardship: The EPA’s Disputed Reversal of Climate Finding
A pivotal decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) raises questions about our commitment to stewardship. As believers, we are called to tend to the environment. Thus, we observe with concern the EPA’s recent move to revoke its 2009 “endangerment finding,” a scientific cornerstone that has long guided pollution regulations. This action, heralded by EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin as “the largest deregulatory action in the history of America,” has stirred considerable criticism from environmental experts and former public servants. Economic Claims Versus Environmental Benefits Administrator Zeldin claims that this reversal will usher in savings of “$54 billion in costs annually” for Americans. Yet, counter to this claim, the EPA’s own reports suggest a different truth: that controlling pollution could generate far greater net positive outcomes over the next three decades, including $820 billion in fuel savings and $1.8 trillion in public health and climate benefits. The gravity of this decision
