Amy Scott

This is a big deal.

The repeal means the end of federal greenhouse gas emission standards for motor vehicles.

The EPA says this will save consumers money, but many see it as a huge setback for climate policy in the United States.

So this episode, we're talking about the economic winners and losers of this repeal.

First, we'll look at the big picture impacts on public health and the economy with a climate scientist.

And then we'll talk about what this means for the U.S.

auto industry with a clean energy expert.

So let's get into it.

First, I spoke with Chris Field.

He was part of the team from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that won the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize.

He's the director of Stanford University's Woods Institute for the Environment and a professor in Earth System Science and Biology.

So our burning question today is, with the repeal of the endangerment finding, the Trump administration is dismantling U.S.

climate policy.

Who are the economic winners and losers of this repeal?

And yet the EPA says that repealing the endangerment finding will save consumers money.

Is that not true?

So when the Trump administration says these regulations have added to the cost of vehicles, that is a cost that consumers can hope to recoup over time as they spend less money on gas?

Obviously, there are enormous costs associated with climate change itself.

But what do we know specifically about the public health costs of greenhouse gas emissions?

So even if you take the figure that the Trump administration gives, you know, $1.3 trillion in savings at face value, do the public health and other economic costs of not regulating these gases overshadow that?