It's Thursday, February 19th, 2026 from Peachfish Productions.

It's the gist. I'm Mike Peska. And I mentioned it yesterday, but one of the most important

developments of the Trump administration is that he's really gutted so many environmental

regulations. The Environmental Protection Agency has repealed its own landmark Obama-era assessment

that greenhouse gases threaten public health and welfare.

Public health and environmental groups warn today's changes could lead to many more premature

deaths and arise in asthma attacks in the coming decades.

And so the New York Times today had a story about how states are stepping in.

But the problem is in California, this has long been the case that they had

stricter admission standards than other states and car companies had to comply.

That's how big a market California was.

But now that's being disallowed, or at least it was by a law in the House and Senate.

There's a suit over this. But there's only so much states can do. Yeah, states can impose prison

terms of differing lengths or define whether a marshmallow is a food or a dessert for tax purposes

or have state tax. In fact, only states can have state tax or not. But emission standards,

there's just a lot of things that the states, which are now trying to step in on certain issues,

are ill-equipped to do. So imagine you buy a car in Council Bluffs, Iowa, you head west,

two miles west into Omaha, Nebraska, boom, you're out of compliance with the

emission standards. But that's okay. Now you're going to head south. Guess what? You're in

Missouri. The downside is you have to turn in anyone who aids and abets a young person having

an abortion, or really anyone after six weeks having an abortion. That's it. You go east to Missouri. I'm angry.

I'm going to conceal carry my guns, which are now allowed, even if my car is out of compliance.

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