It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning, everyone, and happy Earth Day.

April 22nd since the year 1970 is Earth Day when environmentalists and lots of other people

celebrate the Earth in all kinds of ways, right?

That can be anything from simply glorying in the beauty and abundance of what this amazing planet

gives us to, of course, activism around protecting nature and protecting human beings from pollution

and other environmental health threats.

We will do two Earth Day segments to begin the show today later on the Behold the Wonders

of this Wondrous Planet track.

We'll have our friend Jackie Faradie from the planetarium at the Museum of Natural History

to describe how astronauts have beheld the Earth from the vantage point of space on the recent

Artemis mission and once much earlier.

And what we can learn down here on the ground from that, that's coming up second.

First, Earth Day and your government on this

second Earth Day of President Trump's second term and Lee Zeldin as administrator of the Environmental

Protection Agency, the EPA. Our guest for this is Lisa Friedman, who covers climate change

and other environment topics for the New York Times, among her recent articles, the Treasury Secretary versus Climate Science, and how Lee

Zeldon shifted the mission and the message of the EPA.

One example she cites, Zeldon emphasizes messages like this.

The Trump EPA has finalized the single largest act of deregulation in the history of the

United States of America.

Undoing environmental regulations as central to the message and central to the mission.

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