Trump revokes climate-health finding as science documents rising health toll from warming
Trump's administration revoked the 2009 EPA endangerment finding that climate change threatens public health, calling it a 'scam,' but extensive peer‑reviewed research links warming to rising heat‑related deaths, disease and health costs—U.S. deaths rose from about 1,069 in 1999 to 2,325 in 2023, a 2021 Nature Climate Change study ties more than a third of heat deaths to human-caused warming, and a Texas analysis finds 2.2% of summer deaths (2010–2023) are heat-related—along with tens of thousands of studies showing health harms from climate change, despite policy rollbacks.