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From the outset, EPA’s public statements and private documents about the repeal have disguised any claim that the process was a transparent notice-and-comment rulemaking rather than a hard fact. In 2009, following the Supreme Court decision Massachusetts v. EPA , EPA determined that greenhouse gases harm public health and welfare. This determination, known as the Endangerment Finding, provided the legal basis for U.S. climate policy. It is grounded in extensive peer-reviewed science and confirmed by successive National Climate Assessments and reports from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Twice, EPA’s scientific finding has withstood challenges at the D.C. Circuit and, both times, the Supreme Court declined to consider appeals. The repeal ignores more than half a century of evidence and constitutes a formal denial by EPA that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health and welfare — a position that defies decades of scientific evidence, agency precedent, Supreme Court rulings, and, perhaps most importantly, the lived experiences of millions of Americans. Repealing it sets the stage for rolling back pollution standards for vehicles, power plants, airplanes, and more.  “You have described the Endangerment Finding as the ‘holy grail of climate change religion,’ and stated that under your leadership, EPA would be ‘driving a dagger through the heart’ of climate regulation. 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