The American Public Health Association strongly condemns today’s action by U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldin to eliminate the agency’s endangerment finding that greenhouse gases threaten the health of all communities. This action undermines decades of science and rulings by federal courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court.

The American Public Health Association, along with 67 leading deans and scholars in public health and health law, has filed an amicus brief in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit in Monte Rose Jr., et al. v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., et al. The brief urges the court to affirm a lower court ruling that the federal government violated the law by allowing Indiana to continue to restrict Medicaid eligibility and coverage of services in its Section 1115 demonstration waiver.

The U.S. Supreme Court has granted another emergency stay request from the Trump-Vance administration to stay the injunction two lower courts had approved in AFGE v. Trump that halted the unlawful reorganization of the federal government. The court’s decision permits the administration to continue with plans to restructure federal agencies using Agency Reductions in Force and Reorganization Plans, despite the absence of the required congressional authorization. The court specifically did not weigh in on the legality of the agency plans themselves. The case will continue and counsel are considering next steps.

Today, the  American Public Health Association (APHA) joined the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP), American College of Physicians (ACP), Infectious Diseases Society of America (IDSA), Massachusetts Public Health Alliance (MPHA), Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine (SMFM), and a pregnant physician, in filing suit in American Academy of Pediatrics v. Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts to defend vaccine policy, and to put an end to the Secretary’s assault on science, public health and evidence-based medicine.