DSR Weekly Wrap-up: Trump Deals Death Blow to Climate Change Ruling
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Chris Cotnoir
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🗓️ 15 February 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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| 0:53.8 | Hello and welcome the DSR Daily. I'm David Rothk. I'm back. I'm joined by Riley Fessler and playing the role of Minasstein today. We have Joe Vitale. How are you doing, guys? Good. Doing well. I heard you did real well doing this yesterday, Joe. Are you coming from a job? Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. You know, me and Minna are going to, with the long hair. Yeah, no, it's good. It's good. Can I come over? Yeah, well, right. Well, it's got to counterbalance Riley somewhere. In fact, the way this is set up here, now we've got all three lengths of hair you |
| 1:28.4 | could have. Anyway, why don't we dive right in? We'll do our end of the week usual, which is to say |
| 1:34.3 | we'll talk about what a couple things that happened this week, and then we'll talk about the week |
| 1:39.2 | in review, and then we'll talk about next week. President Trump has reversed the 2009 endangerment finding. |
| 1:45.9 | Great. |
| 1:46.5 | That's a fantastic stroke of genius. |
| 1:49.3 | It's a great way to start the summary. |
| 1:52.0 | Yeah, it's a great way to start the summary. |
| 1:54.2 | Go on. |
| 1:55.2 | It's an Obama-era scientific ruling that established greenhouse gases as a threat to public |
| 1:59.9 | health and served as the |
| 2:00.9 | legal foundation for federal climate regulations. The administration characterizes the move as the |
| 2:05.6 | largest deregulation in U.S. history, claiming it will save over $1 trillion and reduce the price |
| 2:10.9 | of new vehicles by approximately $2,400. However, opponents, including former President Barack Obama |
| 2:16.8 | and various environmental groups, |
| 2:18.4 | argue the rollback will increase fuel costs and respiratory illnesses while making the country more vulnerable to the effects of climate change. |
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