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🗓️ 17 March 2025
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yachtold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:20.1 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.j.p. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on YacL. |
0:37.1 | Happy Monday listeners. |
0:38.8 | For Scientific American Science quickly, I'm Rachel Feldman. |
0:42.0 | Let's get this week started with our usual science news roundup. |
0:59.1 | First, unfortunately, I need to update you on some troubling environmental news. |
1:09.1 | Last Wednesday, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, announced that the agency plans to get rid of or weaken many environmental rules and policies. |
1:12.4 | Zeldon said the EPA could even pivot away from officially recognizing that greenhouse gases are bad for us. Back in 2007, the Supreme Court ruled |
1:18.9 | that greenhouse gases are pollutants covered by the Clean Air Act. That meant that the EPA needed |
1:23.7 | to determine whether these emissions by new motor vehicles were tied to air pollution |
1:27.9 | that could harm the public or if the science was too uncertain. Well, the science was certain. |
1:33.9 | In 2009, the EPA officially determined that greenhouse gases threatened public health. |
1:39.4 | Zeldin announced that the administration plans to reconsider these findings. In a video Zeldon posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, about the plans, he referred to the |
1:48.6 | determination as, The Holy Grail of the climate change religion. |
1:53.9 | It's important to note that since 2009, the evidence that greenhouse gas emissions put human |
1:59.2 | lives in danger has only grown. |
2:01.9 | According to Zeldin, the EPA plans to take a series of 31 actions to change or eliminate environmental regulations. |
2:09.2 | Now, the big headline here is that sectors like power generation and the automotive industry |
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