From WNYC Studios.

I'm Brian Lehrer.

This is my daily politics podcast.

It's Tuesday, February 24th.

Today we'll bring some science and some law on a really important health and climate issue that might have gotten

lost for many of you in the crush of other headlines recently. The Trump administration

is canceling a finding that the government made back in 2009 that greenhouse gas emissions

endanger human health. That greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health. That greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health.

That's not an abstract debate.

The finding by the EPA, which was back under President Obama,

provided the legal basis for regulating some major sources of pollution

that are, of course, warming the planet.

Now Trump and his Environmental Protection Agency say no greenhouse gas emissions. No, they do not endanger public health. No.

As a consequence, they say they can do the biggest act of deregulation in U.S. history.

That's actually what they're boasting. It's the biggest act of deregulation in U.S. history. That's actually what they're boasting.

It's the biggest act of deregulation in U.S. history.

They estimate this change will save taxpayers more than a trillion dollars

and lower the average price of a new car or other vehicle by 2,400.

Here's EPA administrator and former Long Island Congressman

Lee Zeldin on Sunday on Fox. Less electric vehicle infrastructure that's needed. It adds up in a

very big way for the American economy. What we saw from the Obama and Biden administrations

taking the endangerment finding for mobile sources,

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