By: Laurie Anderson, Colorado Field Organizer, Moms Clean Air Force
Date: August 21, 2025
About: Environmental Protection Agency Docket ID No. EPA-HQ-OAR-2025-0194
To: Environmental Protection Agency
My name is Laurie Anderson. I live in Broomfield and am a Colorado Field Organizer with Moms Clean Air Force, a community of 1.5 million moms and dads united against air pollution—including the urgent crisis of our changing climate—to protect our children’s health. We strongly oppose EPA’s proposal to rescind the Endangerment Finding and vital limits on tailpipe pollution.
The Endangerment Finding is foundational to EPA’s authority—and responsibility—to limit climate pollution from motor vehicles and other sources. Rescinding it would threaten the health and safety of millions of Americans, especially our children. The EPA must put people over polluters.
As a mom of five, I’ve raised my family just half a mile from a large-scale oil and gas development site, surrounded by aging, low-producing, and shut-in wells. Methane emissions—largely from the oil and gas industry—are responsible for about 30% of today’s global warming. Methane is over 80 times more powerful than carbon dioxide at trapping heat in the short term. Cutting methane pollution is one of the fastest and most effective ways to slow climate change and protect public health.
In Colorado, we are already feeling the impacts of a warming world: hotter summers, prolonged drought, reduced snowpack, more frequent extreme weather events, and more favorable conditions for dangerous wildfires. Because of global warming, wildfires are burning hotter and lasting much longer. Just over three years ago, the Marshall Fire tore through neighboring communities, destroying over 1,000 homes in the middle of winter. Every “Red Flag” warning—where high winds and fire danger coincide—brings fresh anxiety, knowing that it could happen again.
Broomfield is also part of the ozone nonattainment area that stretches from Denver along the northern Front Range. Rising temperatures worsen our already serious ground-level ozone problem, increasing the frequency of ozone action days—days when it’s unsafe for our children to play outside. While we cannot control the number of beautiful sunny days in Colorado, we can lower ozone by reducing NOx and VOC pollution from tailpipes and other sources.
These dangers will only worsen if EPA fails to act to cut climate emissions. The science is clear, the law is clear, and the urgency is real. Our children and future generations are counting on you.
I strongly urge the EPA to maintain the Endangerment Finding, to maintain crucial, health-protecting limits on tailpipe pollution, and to continue enforcing strong climate protections.