EPA says power plant carbon emissions aren’t dangerous. We asked 30 scientists: Here’s what they say
June 11, 2025
The Trump administration’s Environmental Protection Agency Wednesday proposed a new ruling that heat-trapping carbon gas “emissions from fossil fuel-fired power plants do not contribute significantly to dangerous air pollution.″ The Associated Press asked 30 different scientists, experts in climate, health and economics, about the scientific reality behind this proposal. Nineteen of them responded, all saying that the proposal was scientifically wrong and many of them called it disinformation. They said it was like saying cigarettes don’t cause cancer, the world isn’t round and arsenic isn’t deadly. One said it was hard to find something dumber.
