Actions Panel
The 2009 EPA Endangerment Finding: Even Stronger Evidence in 2018
Date and time
Location
San Francisco Marriott Marquis
Room - Foothill G 780 Mission Street San Francisco, CA 94103Description
Global Climate Action Summit
Affiilate Event Hosted by the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
The 2009 EPA ENDANGERMENT FINDING: EVEN STRONGER EVIDENCE in 2018
SUMMARY
In December 2009, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released official findings indicating six types of greenhouse gases endanger human health and welfare. This “Endangerment Finding” is an essential component of the legal basis for regulating greenhouse gas emissions as air pollution under the Clean Air Act, providing foundational support for important aspects of U.S. climate policy.
Recently, speculation that EPA may revisit the Endangerment Finding has been widespread, even though the legal basis for the finding has been robust. This event assembles a panel of scholars to review how the strength of the scientific evidence for endangerment has grown since 2009. Leading experts in the science of climate impacts will discuss how this new evidence lends increased support to the conclusion that these gases pose a danger to the public health and welfare. Newly-available evidence (1) strengthens the association between risk of some of these impacts and anthropogenic climate change; (2) indicates that some impacts or combinations of impacts have the potential to be more severe than previously understood; and (3) identifies risk of additional impacts through processes and pathways not considered in the endangerment finding.
The program includes breakfast, brief presentations on key elements of the Endangerment Finding, and moderated discussion.
PANEL
Marshall Burke, Assistant Professor of Earth System Science and Center Fellow at the Woods Insittute for the Environment, Stanford University
Noah Diffenbaugh, Kara J Foundation Professor of Earth System Science and the Kimmelman Family Senior Fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University
Sherri Goodman, Senior Fellow at the Wilson Center’s Environmental Change and Security Program and Polar Initiative
David Lobell, Gloria and Richard Kushel Director of the Center on Food Security and the Environment, William Wrigley Senior Fellow at the Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment and Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies, and Professor of Earth System Science, Stanford University
MODERATOR
Chris Field, Perry L. McCarty Director of the Woods Institute for the Environment and the Melvin and Joan Lane Professor for Interdisciplinary Environmental Studies, Stanford University
For more information, please click here or contact Mollie Field at mfield1@stanford.edu.
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