By: Pita Juarez, Arizona 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
My name is Pita Juarez, I live in Arizona, a state that consistently ranks among the worst in the country for air quality. According to the American Lung Association’s 2025 State of the Air report, the Phoenix-Mesa area is the fourth worst city in the nation for high ozone days. For families like mine, this isn’t just a statistic—we know all too well that climate pollution is heating the planet and making it easier for ground-level ozone to form. Ozone and other forms of air pollution worsened by climate change, like wildfire smoke, make it harder for us to breathe. I have loved ones who were born with asthma and others who developed it later in life, because in Arizona, the air isn’t getting better—it’s getting worse.
We see the impacts of climate change all around us. Every year, our wildfires grow more destructive, wiping out the little green space we have left where people can breathe fresh air. Extreme heat, something every Arizonan knows too well, is getting worse and also taking lives. This summer, we lost a neighbor who already faced health issues and didn’t have air conditioning in her home. That tragedy was preventable, yet it happened here in our community.
That’s why programs like the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program (GHGRP) are so important. The GHGRP monitors climate pollution from the nation’s largest sources, giving us vital public information about what’s fueling climate change and supercharging extreme weather. This data empowers the public, policymakers, and businesses to take action and to hold polluters accountable.
Rolling back the GHGRP would be an extreme and dangerous step. It would strip away the public’s right to know who is responsible for our nation’s climate pollution. Eliminating this program would not only erode trust but also put U.S. companies at a competitive disadvantage globally, making it harder for us to transition to a cleaner, safer economy.
Our families and communities are already bearing the health and economic costs of our current climate crisis, from rising insurance premiums to worsening asthma to deadly heat waves. We can’t afford to lose the transparency and accountability that the GHGRP provides.
I urge you to reject this proposal and protect the GHGRP. Our lives, our health, and our future depend on it.
Thank you.