Brian Lear on WNYC.

On Tuesdays on the show, for those of you who don't know, maybe some of you are new to us listening because you're home, you know, because of the snow or something like that.

On Tuesdays on the show, we like to bring the science on public health and climate and other

science policy questions. Today we'll bring some science and some law on a really important

health and climate issue that might have gotten lost for many of you in the crush of other

headlines recently. The Trump administration is canceling a finding that the government made

back in 2009 that greenhouse gas emissions endanger human health, that greenhouse gas emissions

endanger human health. That's not an abstract debate.

The finding by the EPA, which was back under President Obama,

provided the legal basis for regulating some major sources of pollution

that are, of course, warming the planet.

Now Trump and his Environmental Protection Agency say no greenhouse gas emissions.

No, they do not endanger public health. No. As a consequence, they say they can do the biggest act

of deregulation in U.S. history. That's actually what they're boasting. It's the biggest act of

deregulation in U.S. history. That's actually what they're boasting. It's the biggest act of deregulation in U.S.

history. They estimate this change will save taxpayers more than a trillion dollars and lower the

average price of a new car or other vehicle by 2,400. Here's EPA administrator and former

Long Island Congressman Lee Zeldon on Sunday on Fox.

Less electric vehicle infrastructure that's needed. It adds up in a very big way for the American economy.

What we saw from the Obama and Biden administrations, taking the endangerment finding for mobile sources,

then stationary sources, oil and gas, airplanes.

I mean, they ended up doing what amounted to trillions of dollars of regulation.

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