By: Elizabeth Hauptman, Michigan Field Organizer, Moms Clean Air Force
Date: October 1, 2025
About: EPA Docket No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0186-0001, Reconsideration of the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program
To: Environmental Protection Agency
Hello, and thank you for the opportunity to testify.
My name is Elizabeth Hauptman, and I am a field manager with Moms Clean Air Force. I live in Livingston County, Michigan, with my husband and son. I am here today as a mother who strongly opposes the EPA’s proposal to repeal the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program.
The Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program gives us the information we need to understand where climate pollution is coming from so we can protect our families from worsening floods, wildfires, drought, and extreme heat. We know that climate pollution is heating the planet and supercharging dangerous extreme weather. Repealing this program would leave us without the data that helps keep children safe—it would be a step backward at a time when we can least afford it.
Every day, I think about my son’s future. Despite our efforts to protect him, he is growing up in a world already shaped by climate change. In Michigan, we’ve seen hotter summers, destructive floods, tornadoes, wildfire smoke and unpredictable storms. Across the country, children face worsening hurricanes, flash flooding, and heatwaves that threaten their health and safety. Taking away this program won’t protect them—it will make the danger greater, the solutions more costly, and the path to safety even more uncertain.
Repealing the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program doesn’t just erase data—it erases accountability. Without it, we cannot track progress, hold polluters responsible, or make informed decisions to protect public health. Imagine trying to solve a problem without knowing where it begins or how severe it is—you can’t fix what you can’t measure. That is what this proposal would do: remove the tools we rely on to safeguard children and families.
Children are especially vulnerable to climate impacts. Their lungs and brains are still developing, and they rely on adults to protect them. Despite being the least responsible for this crisis, kids—especially those in communities of color and lower-income families—bear the heaviest burden. Eliminating this program would worsen these inequities and put the most vulnerable at even greater risk.
Climate scientists are clear: the choices we make today shape the world our children will inherit. Protecting the Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program is one essential step to honor that responsibility.
I urge you: do not repeal this program. Collecting accurate climate pollution data is vital for protecting families like mine. Our children deserve a future full of health, safety, and opportunity—not uncertainty, danger, and broken promises.
Thank you for your time and for listening to mothers like me.