On February 12, 2026, following the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) repeal of the landmark 2009 Endangerment Finding that greenhouse gases negatively impact public health, President Trump falsely claimed that “[climate change] has nothing to do with public health. This is all a scam, a giant scam.”
Contrary to President Trump’s statement, a significant body of scientific literature has demonstrated that climate change endangers human health. Since the Endangerment Finding established that greenhouse gases adversely affect public health, more than 29,000 peer-reviewed studies have examined the intersection of climate and health, confirming EPA’s 2008 finding. According to Dr. Howard Frumkin, a former director of the National Center for Environmental Health, “[s]tudy after study documents that climate change endangers health, for one simple reason: It’s true.”