Summers around the corner. Heat waves are going to be freaking us out. It's as good a time as any to check in on climate change here today, explained from Vox. So let's start with the EPA.

The Environmental Protection Agency was signed into existence by a Republican, Richard Nixon, can you believe?

This was way back in 1970 when it was okay for the right to care about the planet. After a massive oil spill off

the California coast, there was a ton of movement around environmental stewardship in this country.

We had our first Earth Day, the Clean Air Act passed with only one person in all of Congress

voting no, and that same Congress, along with Tricky Dick, created the EPA.

Fifty-six years later, in this Anthropocene era of ours,

another Republican administration is doing everything in its power to destroy the EPA,

all while we civilians contend with the effects of human-caused climate change.

That story is coming up on the show today.

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This week on Unexplainable, the Black Plague didn't happen exactly how you'd think.

Like, among other things, it wasn't just about rats.

We can look at other kinds of mammals.

Camels, it turns out, are pretty good plague transmitters.

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