Trump administration eliminates greenhouse gas regulations

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  Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

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  I'm Tamara Keith.

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  I'm Ashley Lopez.

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  I cover politics.

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  And NPR climate correspondent Jeff Brady is also here with us.

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  Welcome, Jeff.

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  Hey, thank you.

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  And today on the show, for the past 16 years,

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  the federal government has regulated climate warming emissions through something called the Endangerment Finding.

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  The Trump administration just obliterated that.

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  Jeff, give us some background to help us understand how we got here.

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  Sure.

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  You know, the U.S., we don't have like some big law that regulates climate pollution here.

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  Democrats did try to get one passed in 2009, a while ago,

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  but there was a lot of opposition, you know, fossil fuel industry, all that.

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  So the Obama administration decided to regulate greenhouse gases,

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  the greenhouse gases that are warming the climate through a section of the Clean Air Act.

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  And under that law, the EPA found that greenhouse gases endanger public health and welfare.

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  First, they regulated climate pollution from cars,

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  then expanded that to the power industry and the oil and gas industry.

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