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Minnesota Attorney General
@ag.state.mn.us joined the group of AGs in opposition. Ellison called the proposal a “foundational shift” that, if finalized, would unravel years of climate policy progress.
"The rollback of the endangerment finding is more than a bureaucratic trimming. It is a retreat from responsibility," Ellison said.
Michigan Attorney General
@miattygen.bsky.social pointed out the harms that climate change is causing to Michigan farming and winter recreation, referencing unpredictable weather patterns, higher winter temperatures, flooding, and drought. “The EPA shows it has strayed from its mandate," she said.
"If national parks are America's best idea ever, this proposal might be America's worst idea ever,” said Ulla Reeves of
@protectparks.bsky.social, an independent advocacy group dedicated to protecting U.S. national parks.
Whitney Wright from Indiana, speaking as a private individual, is getting personal. Climate change, she said, has directly affected her ability to be outside and, therefore, her mental health.
“I'm here today as a kid who just wants to grow up healthy and safe in a world where the air is clean and the future feels safe,” said student Oscar Hauptman of Michigan.
Hauptman has asthma and recounted a summer day when smoke from wildfires caused him an asthma attack. “I'm asking you, not just as a student, but as a kid who wants to breathe, play outside and grow up without fear. Please don't take away the endangerment finding. Please protect kids like me.”
Hauptman's father, Andrew, also gave his testimony. "Today I'm asking, parent to parent, father to public servant, do not walk away from the endangerment finding. Protect our kids," he said.
One speaker, Zachary Handler, shared his firsthand experience of January's Palisades Fire, which destroyed his childhood home. “Repealing the endangerment finding would be a slap in the face to myself and to millions of Americans who have already experienced the dangers of climate change,” he said.
Aug 19, 2025 17:51“Small U.S. businesses do not want this to happen,” said Steve Fletcher
@greenamerica.org’s Green Business Network. “Removing the rules doesn't lift everyone up...[it] pushes everyone down into the abyss of chaos, where questions about compliance, long term planning, and investment are ignored.”
Testimonies against the proposal have so far greatly outnumbered those in favor. Fritz Byron Soepyan of the CO2 Coalition offered an argument in support of the EPA’s proposal to revoke the endangerment finding.
According to its website, the CO2 Coalition exists to educate "thought leaders, policy makers, and the public about the important contribution made by carbon dioxide to our lives and the economy.”
“CO₂ is not a pollutant. Rather, CO₂ is essential and beneficial for life on Earth,” Soepyan said.
In contrast to Soepyan’s comments, Eric Feely of the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality said: “The evidence that EPA is relying on to refute the scientific arguments behind the greenhouse gas engagement finding is well outside the mainstream consensus.”
@agu.org's own Elizabeth Landau is next up. “I am testifying on behalf of AGU and its scientists, who affirm that climate change, which is unequivocally driven by human activities that increase greenhouse gas emissions, is endangering human health and welfare in the US and globally,” she said.
