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Wright Delivers Remarks with EPA Administrator Zeldin on the Endangerment Finding, Jul. 29, 2025

July 29, 2025 · U.S. Department of Energy · 0:06:07

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What happened

Energy Secretary Chris Wright delivered remarks alongside EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, in the Department of Energy’s upload of the July 29, 2025 announcement concerning the 2009 endangerment finding. Wright called the day momentous for liberty, freedom, and energy, and described the endangerment finding — issued 17 years earlier, as he dated it — as a backdoor route around Congress that took away freedom, raised costs, and shrank Americans’ opportunities.

Wright announced that the Energy Department was releasing its own climate assessment that day: he said he had reached out to five scientists who had followed the data rather than the politics of climate change, that the first five all agreed, and that their report — internally peer reviewed at the department and the national labs, as he described it — was now open to public engagement. Climate change, he said, is a real physical phenomenon worthy of study and even some action, but the policies built on it had not been related to the actual science; the administration’s practical aim, he said, is lower-cost vehicles, consumer products, and energy bills, reached through professional and public review.

Why it matters

July 29 pairs the EPA’s regulatory move on the endangerment finding with DOE’s scientific counterweight: Wright personally commissioning and releasing a department climate assessment the same day — the two halves of the administration’s climate reset, delivered from one stage.

Scoreboard candidate

Scoreboard candidate: the Energy Department climate assessment report whose release Secretary Wright announced on July 29, 2025, alongside the EPA’s endangerment-finding action, as he described both. Flagged for the scoreboard editor; no entry is published from this page.

Sources: U.S. Department of Energy, “Secretary Wright delivers remarks with EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin - July 29, 2025” (official upload, embedded above; remarks as delivered by Secretary Wright).