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The speaker, representing the Trump EPA, frames geoengineering and contrails as urgent questions for which the American public deserves honesty and transparency. The speaker asserts that “the era is over” when questions were dismissed or vilified, and declares that the Trump EPA is committed to total transparency.
The administrator states that the EPA tasked its team to “compile a list of everything we know about contrails and geoengineering for the purpose of releasing it to you now publicly.” The goal is for readers to know “everything I know about these topics and without any exception.” Rather than dismissing questions as baseless conspiracies, the EPA is meeting them head on, performing legwork, reviewing science, consulting agency experts, and incorporating relevant outside information to create online resources. “Everything we know about contrails to solar geoengineering will be in there.”
The administrator emphasizes that anyone reading the information will know as much about these topics as the EPA administrator does, addressing questions from people who have looked up at the sky and wondered “what the heck is going on?” or seen headlines about private actors and governments seeking to blot out the sun in the name of stopping global warming. The EPA states that it has endeavored to answer all questions at the links provided.
The EPA notes that it shares many of the same concerns about potential threats to human health and the environment, especially from solar geoengineering activities. The speaker highlights that the enthusiasm for experiments that would pump pollutants into the high atmosphere has set off alarm bells at the Trump EPA. Prior to now, the EPA has “never been this proactive to raise awareness about concerns with geoengineering and to stop this activity from being scaled up.”
Finally, the administrator frames the stance as an example of government listening to the will of the people, not squashing it, and asserts that “you can always trust this administration and this EPA to take your concerns seriously, answer your questions honestly, and carry out the will of voters with integrity.”