It's the Brian Larry Show on WNYC.

Good morning again, everyone.

Now another Health and Climate Tuesdays segment.

Remember, we're doing health and climate stories on the show every Tuesday

for at least the first hundred days of the Trump administration, so these stories don't get

lost in the crush of other actions that might grab more headlines. Hello, Colombia and Harvard,

hello Pete Higsef and signal chats, hello tariffs, and the plunging stock market. But Coral Davenport, who is now a full-time

Trump deregulation reporter for the New York Times, had a sweeping article last week called

Inside Trump's Plan to halt hundreds of regulations. This includes one on how much staff

nursing homes need to have. Is that a bad thing? It includes one that protects miners from inhaling dangerous silica dust. That shouldn't be regulated and many more. Let's see what's on the list. Coral, thanks for joining us for this. Welcome back to WNYC.

Hi, it's great to be with you. And we'll go down some of the examples you wrote about, like the nursing home staffing

and protection for minors.

But first, what's the big picture that you're reporting on here?

Is this an Elon Musk Doge thing?

It is.

And to be clear, this is something where, you know, every Republican president

comes in saying that they want to streamline regulations or, you know, make sort of the

regulatory environment more efficient for business.

Reagan wanted to do that.

Both Presidents Bush wanted to do that. Both presidents Bush wanted to do that.

But this is something that is different and new. This is about kind of coming in and from day one

looking over all of the hundreds, even thousands of regulations that are really kind of the safety

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