What less environmental regulation could mean from Marketplace, I'm Sabri Beneshore, in for David Brancaccio.

In an effort to create a more business-friendly environment, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to roll back dozens of regulations around carbon emissions and air and water quality.

These would affect industries, including agriculture and energy.

The shift has the potential to fundamentally change what the EPA can do to combat climate change.

Marketplaces Nova Safo has more.

EPA administrator Lee Zeldon says his agency will reconsider its so-called endangerment finding made back in 2009.

That finding, that greenhouse gas emissions impact

public health, empowered the agency under the Clean Air Act to set up rules to limit carbon

emissions, which contribute to climate change. Those rules limited emissions from power plants

and vehicles. But the agency now says it arrived at its finding improperly,

in part because it did not consider future costs. In the past, the EPA has also pointed to

savings, such as in benefits from emissions reductions. The EPA's move is not necessarily a surprise.

President Trump, in an executive order, had directed the agency to re-examine its

endangerment finding. The Environmental Group Center for Biological Diversity promised to fight the

effort, saying that reversing the finding would jeopardize multiple rules aimed at fighting

climate change. The EPA says it will move forward in seeking public comment. I'm Novosafo for Marketplace.

Markets have been sending signals that they are worried about tariffs and erratic economic policy.

And the latest place we're seeing it is in the market for credit.

The yield on corporate bonds, that's the interest corporations and businesses have to pay on bonds

that they issue to raise money. Those rates are rising and not just rising, but rising

faster than the baseline interest rate in the economy, which is the yield on government bonds.

Bottom line, fear is making it more expensive for businesses to borrow. Diane Swank is here

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