Insiders Say National Academy Of Sciences’ Climate Report Clapping Back At Trump EPA Has More Holes Than Swiss Cheese
- September 17, 2025
Audrey Streb, Daily Caller
The National Academy of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine (NASEM) released its report on how greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) endanger public health on Wednesday, which several energy sector experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation was thrown together with the aim of undermining the Trump administration.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it is moving to roll back the 2009 Endangerment Finding, which determined that GHGs including carbon dioxide can be regulated as they pose a danger to human health and the environment. In response, NASEM put together a review which argues that GHG emissions are building up in the atmosphere, which contributes to climate change, though energy policy experts have previously explained to the DCNF that the Endangerment Finding was not founded on sound evidence and that it has since been used to impose crippling regulations and limit consumer choice.
The Department of Energy (DOE) released a report on climate change on the same day the EPA made its Endangerment Finding announcement, which argued that “CO2-induced warming might be less damaging economically than commonly believed.” Energy Secretary Chris Wright has repeatedly stated that climate change is an issue, though he frames energy poverty as a more imminent threat.
“The Endangerment Finding review by the National Academies produced a pre-determined outcome that is not a surprise to anyone who has paid the least bit of attention,” Michael Chamberlain, director of watchdog group Protect the Public’s Trust. “The alarmism of the green movement was fed by a massive influx of the other type of green to well-connected NGOs, individuals, and organizations such as the National Academies. In addition to producing apocalypticism that has created eco-anxiety among a generation of youth, this financial boon is at the core of the hydra-headed intersectional progressive movement that has fed much of the unrest and extremism we have unfortunately witnessed far too much of.”