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I'm Megna Chakrabardi, and this is the Jackpot, where on-point news analyst, Jack Bede,

helps us connect history, literature, and politics in a way that brings his unique clarity to the world we live in right now. Hello there, Jack. Hello, Magnum. Episode 79. What's your headline for this week?

Making America safe for cancer. Okay, tell us more. Well, I'm referring to Lee Zeldon, the new administrator of the EPA.

And I'm channeling here, Senator Adam Schiff, who put really a stinging remonstrance to Mr. Zeldon in testimony last week.

Zeldon, under the EPA, he plans to repeal dozens of major environmental regulations,

including protections of wetlands, limits on tailpipe emissions, smokestacks,

and he's even preparing, wants to challenge the legal basis for regulating

greenhouse gas emissions.

And so he appeared before the Senate Committee on the Environment and Public Works, and

Senator Adam Schiff, the Democrat from California, issued this stinging remonstrance.

You proposed cutting America's environmental agency by 55 percent, meaning that in your view,

and that of President Trump, more than half of the environmental efforts of the EPA,

more than half of the efforts to make sure Americans have clean air and clean water are just a waste.

They're just a waste.

Meaning that Californians and people all over the country when they, when they breathe the

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