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What A Day

News, Daily News

4.6 • 12.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 February 2026

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

Over the past year, the Trump administration has been eliminating policies aimed at slowing down climate change – and now, it may go even further. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to repeal the “endangerment finding” that has been the scientific basis of rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions since 2009. To talk more about this endangerment finding and where the fight against climate change goes from here, we spoke to Leah Stokes. She’s an associate professor at UC Santa Barbara where she works on climate and clean energy policy and co-host of the climate podcast, A Matter of Degrees.

And in headlines, Department of Homeland Security officials testify before Congress, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick admits to lunching with his kids on Epstein Island, and the Trump administration takes down a rainbow flag at the Stonewall National Monument in New York City.

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0:00.0

It's Wednesday, February 11th. I'm Jane Koston, and this is what a day.

0:07.7

The show that stands with the Left Leaning Magazine, The Nation, which has formally nominated the city of Minneapolis and its people for the 26 Nobel Peace Prize.

0:16.6

As the editors of the magazine write, quote,

0:19.0

The people of Minneapolis and their elected leaders have demonstrated an extraordinary and sustained commitment to human dignity and to the protection of vulnerable communities.

0:28.1

Indeed.

0:34.2

On today's show, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnik admits to lunching with his kids on Epstein Island but says he doesn't recall why.

0:43.2

And Department of Homeland Security officials testify before Congress about the agency's unprecedented wave of immigration enforcement.

0:50.4

Will they take responsibility for their officers' violence against American citizens?

0:55.2

Of course not.

1:01.4

But let's start with the environment. President Donald Trump isn't a fan. Of the environment, I mean,

1:06.6

or anything that would potentially help us not destroy it. Case in point, Trump is doing everything he can to stymie wind energy because he hates windmills. Like, really hates windmills.

1:13.2

Here he is at the National Prayer Breakfast last week, ranting about them.

1:17.0

We haven't approved anything in wind, right, Doug? Nothing, because it's, you know, just,

1:21.0

it's a quick way to losing money, losing beauty, losing your fields, killing your birds.

1:26.0

And other than that, it doesn't work.

1:28.6

He really covered a lot of ground at the National Prayer Breakfast.

1:32.7

Do we even need the State of the Union?

1:34.3

What else could there be to say?

1:36.8

But the Trump administration is not just against windmills.

1:39.7

Over the past year, it's been eliminating policies aimed at stopping or even just slowing down

1:43.8

climate change. And now it may go even further. This week, the environmental year, it's been eliminating policies aimed at stopping or even just slowing down climate change. And now it may go even further. This week, the Environmental Protection Agency plans to

1:49.6

repeal the endangerment finding that has been the basis of rules limiting greenhouse gas emissions

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