The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine will independently review the latest climate science, focusing on the implications for the Trump administration's plans to repeal the 2009 endangerment finding regarding greenhouse gas emissions. The Academies have opted for self-funding, which is atypical for their usual response to government requests. The findings are intended to be public by September, aiming to guide EPA decisions. President Marcia McNutt emphasizes the need for federal policies to be grounded in the most current scientific evidence, amidst increasing regulatory rollbacks under the current administration.
It is critical that federal policymaking is informed by the best available scientific evidence. Decades of climate research have yielded expanded understanding of how greenhouse gases affect the climate.
The Academies intend to publicly release it in September, in time to inform the Environmental Protection Agency's decision on the so-called 'endangerment finding.'
The move by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to self-fund the study is a departure from their typical practice of responding to requests by government agencies.
The Trump administration's move to rescind the endangerment finding would eliminate the legal underpinning of the most important actions the federal government has taken on climate change.
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