Trump’s climate rollback, this wild winter and ‘Penisgate’

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  For Scientific American Science Quickly, I'm Kendra Peer Lewis in for Rachel Feldman.

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  You're listening to our weekly science news roundup.

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  First up,

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  the Trump administration announced last week it would be rescinding a scientific finding that has served as a foundation for U.S.

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  federal climate policy since 2009.

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  We are officially terminating the so-called endangerment finding.

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  A disastrous Obama-era policy that severely damaged the American auto industry and massively drove up prices for American consumers.

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  To take us through what this could mean for you as climate action,

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  we spoke to Andrea Thompson, senior desk editor for Life Science at Scientific American.

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  Hello, Andrea.

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  Thanks for joining us today.

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  Thanks for having me.

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  So the basis for federal climate policy in this country has been something called the Endangerment Finding.

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  Can you tell us what this is?

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  Yeah, so basically you start with the Clean Air Act.

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  So this is the legislation passed in the 70s that gives the EPA the authority to regulate air pollutants that affect human health.

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  And so the endangerment finding is sort of the legal and scientific argument that yes,

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  greenhouse gases do affect.

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  human health.

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  So greenhouse gases are the main one is carbon dioxide, another really important one is methane.

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