Live from NPR News, I'm Lakshmi Singh.

The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Lee Zeldin, standing by a decision to strip the agency of the ability to regulate planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions.

If you want to talk about specifically heat-trapping effects, yes.

Their greenhouse gases have heat-trapping effects. Does that mean that we should look at each individual

vehicle on the road and think that that person who's driving that car is ruining the, you know,

is going to end the planet?

Zeldin at a Toyota dealership in Charlotte, North Carolina.

The Trump administration's rollback eases pressure on automakers to produce more

electric vehicles and hybrids.

President Trump was also North Carolina today visiting troops at Fort Bragg as many

federal workers prepare for a partial government shutdown.

NPR's Tamara Keith reports on the impasse

over funding the Department of Homeland Security. Democrats say they need significant changes to the

tactics being used by immigration agents, like removing masks and requiring judicial warrants,

and they want those changes cemented in law. President Trump was asked about negotiations while

preparing to board Marine One. He said he has to protect law enforcement. Look, I know what they want.

I know what they can live with. The Democrats have gone crazy. They're radical left lunatics.

A White House official not authorized to speak on the record tells NPR ultimately there will have to be a compromise, though the administration is working to limit any interruptions from the partial government shutdown. Tamara Keith, NPR News. Several people were being arraigned today in connection with a protests at a Minnesota church where an ICE official is a pastor.

One of the defendants is former CNN host Don Lemon.

He pleaded not guilty to federal civil rights charges and later addressed the public.

I will not be intimidated. I will not back down. I will fight these baseless charges.

And I will not be silenced.

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