The EPA moves to repeal emissions regulations.
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Isaac Saul
4.7 • 817 Ratings
🗓️ 6 August 2025
⏱️ 30 minutes
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Summary
On Tuesday, July 29, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lee Zeldin released the agency’s proposal to rescind a determination that previous administrations had used to set limits on greenhouse gas emissions. Both the Obama and Biden administrations used the determination, called the endangerment finding, to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from the burning of fossil fuels, particularly from vehicle emissions. The EPA cited curtailing regulatory overreach as the primary motivation for rescinding the rule, saying that the repeal would save the auto industry an expected $54 billion through deregulations.
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| 0:00.0 | From executive producer Isaac Saul, this is Tangle. |
| 0:08.4 | This is Tangle. |
| 0:26.9 | Good morning, good afternoon and good evening and welcome to the Tango podcast, a place you get views from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of my take. |
| 0:43.6 | I'm your host, Isaac Saul, and on today's episode, we're going to be talking about the latest announcement from Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lee Zeldon, who said that the EPA is rolling back some emissions standards, I guess you can say. |
| 0:50.6 | Mostly a major rule called the endangerment finding that helps regulate greenhouse gas emissions. |
| 0:52.4 | It's a little complicated. |
| 0:54.8 | We're going to explain everything that you need to know and then share some views from the left and the right who have some very strong disagreements |
| 0:58.4 | about this issue. And then I'm going to share my take, which I think conveniently today |
| 1:03.9 | cuts a little bit down the middle. I mean, I have some feelings for sure that are a little bit |
| 1:09.0 | more aligned with the concern around climate change. But I also |
| 1:12.4 | am just not totally sure what the Trump administration can really do or if it can do what it's |
| 1:17.7 | saying it's going to do without being stopped by the court. So I'm going to explain why I feel that |
| 1:22.9 | way. And I think this will be a really good roundup of this issue, which by the the way, after reading and consuming so much punditry and commentary on it, I think is being really convoluted in the press. |
| 1:34.4 | So today's a day where I very much feel the need for tangle and feel like our work can add some value and I hope it does. |
| 1:42.4 | With that, I'm going to send it over to John for today's main pod, and I'll be back for my take. |
| 1:53.8 | Thanks, Isaac, and welcome, everybody. |
| 1:55.9 | Here are your quick hits for today. |
| 1:58.1 | First up, four European countries, the Netherlands, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway, |
| 2:03.2 | agreed to buy U.S. military equipment valued at roughly $1 billion, which will then be transferred |
| 2:08.5 | to Ukraine. Number two, President Donald Trump suggested that he may move to federalize Washington, |
| 2:14.2 | D.C. in response to purported crime problems in the Capitol, specifically referencing |
| 2:19.0 | the assault of a former Department of Government Efficiency Staffer on Sunday. |
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