Soros funded report: ‘Climate Deniers’ have taken over USA! ‘A government led by climate denial…the federal govt is rife with officials who deny climate change’

This analysis considers a person a climate denier if they have:

• Stated that they believe that climate change is not real or is a hoax
• Stated that the climate has always been changing as a result of natural factors and that today’s warming is merely a continuation of natural cycles
• Claimed that the science around climate change is not settled, including attempting to dismiss the science around carbon dioxide, or that they cannot speak to the issue because they are not scientists
• Claimed that while humans are contributing to a changing climate, they are not the main contributors
• Stated that increasingly frequent and intense extreme weather events, such as wildfires and hurricanes, are not related to climate change
• Claimed that climate change impacts are beneficial to humans or positive for planetary health

If a member previously made statements that qualified as climate denial in past CAP analyses but has since consistently acknowledged the validity of climate science, this analysis no longer classifies them as a climate denier.

Environmental Protection Agency

EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin, a former congressman representing New York, has reversed his stance on climate change since taking over the agency.⁴⁵ Since his appointment, he has claimed that carbon dioxide, the main greenhouse gas that contributes to climate change, is beneficial to the planet—a form of climate denial.⁴⁶ He said that President Trump’s comments at the U.N. General Assembly that climate change is a hoax or con were “absolutely right.”⁴⁷ Zeldin received more than $410,000 from the oil and gas industry during his election campaigns for Congress and governor of New York.⁴⁸

Under Zeldin, in July 2025, the EPA released a proposal to rescind the endangerment finding, the bedrock scientific basis for addressing climate change.⁴⁹ The 2009 rule has been the foundation for the EPA to enforce pollution protections via the Clean Air Act.⁵⁰ Harmful greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuel production, power plants, and vehicles threaten public health, especially in vulnerable communities.⁵¹ Furthermore, the proposal rescinds cleaner vehicle emission standards that would have yielded an estimated $13 billion per year in health benefits. Rescinding the standards will raise gas prices and increase drivers’ costs.⁵² Repealing the endangerment finding by claiming climate change and the pollution that causes it pose no threat to public health or the environment is a giveaway to corporate polluters and will harm Americans.

Additionally, recent reporting has revealed that the EPA has deleted references to human-caused climate change from many of its websites.⁵³ For example, in October 2025, a webpage titled “Causes of Climate Change” included a statement from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that said, “It is unequivocal that human influence has warmed the atmosphere, ocean, and land.”⁵⁴ That entire section has now been deleted and only refers to climate change caused by natural processes.⁵⁵

Department of Energy

The DOE, the lead agency tasked with overseeing U.S. energy policy, is led by Secretary Chris Wright, a climate skeptic and former oil and gas company executive. ⁵⁶ In a 2023 video, Wright said, “There is no climate crisis, and we’re not in the midst of an energy transition either.”⁵⁷  He has since provided statements that further muddle his stance, saying that climate change is a “global physical phenomenon that is a side effect of building the modern world,” and has spread misinformation on wind and solar energy.⁵⁸

The EPA’s proposal to rescind the 2009 endangerment finding was based on a report concurrently released by the DOE.⁵⁹ The report was written by five established climate deniers and cherry-picks long-debunked arguments to attempt to discredit the scientific consensus that climate change is human-caused, is a result of increased CO2 emissions in the atmosphere, and is leading to increased frequency and intensity of extreme weather events across the globe.⁶⁰ Many across the scientific community called for the report to be discredited, and a group of authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report have refuted the misinformation presented in the DOE report.⁶¹ The Environmental Defense Fund and Union of Concerned Scientists filed a lawsuit against the DOE and EPA alleging that the agencies violated the Federal Advisory Committee Act by creating a secret working group without accountability measures to write the report with the goal of rolling back the endangerment finding.⁶² In September 2025, the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts granted partial summary judgment on behalf of the plaintiffs. This case is ongoing. ⁶³

Finally, the DOE’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy recently added “climate change,” “green,” and “decarbonization” to its list of words to avoid.⁶⁴

Department of the Interior

The DOI manages U.S. public lands and is responsible for regulating energy development, including oil and gas activities, on those lands. Secretary of the Interior Doug Burgum, a former governor of North Dakota with strong ties to the oil and gas industry, has claimed that coal is a clean source of energy and attempted to discredit the scientific consensus of climate change, questioning how climate scientists, “could take a spreadsheet and extrapolate [climate] data for 90 years, 80 years, now 75 years and say ‘this is absolutely what’s going to happen.’”⁶⁵ When asked to respond to President Trump’s comments at the United Nations that climate change is “the greatest con job ever perpetuated on the world,” Secretary Burgum said, “President Trump does what he’s always done – he speaks openly and speaks truthfully, which is why the world loves him.”⁶⁶