Ari Weitzman
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1,840 appearances
13 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5d ago
Ari Weitzman’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Good afternoon and good evening.
And welcome to the Tango Podcast, the place where you get news from across the political spectrum, some independent thinking, and a little bit of our take.
I'm Tango's managing editor Ari Weitzman.
Wanna congratulate you first on making it to Thursday, which means you're basically at the weekend.
Before you start unwinding, we want to unwind a story of our own today, which is the knotted thread about the EPA's removal of the greenhouse gas emissions regulations just for gas and coal fired power plants.
So it's getting complicated already, but stick with us and we'll untangle it for you.
See what I did there.
We're also gonna reach back to 1787 for a story about the signing of the Constitution.
We'll end with a feel-good story about a charitable New Yorker.
Stick around for this one.
I'll be right back for my take.
But first, I'm gonna send it over to Will to read off the pod.
During the summer before my junior year of college, I volunteered with a nonprofit to help organize people who were going to publicly testify against a rule change President George W.
Bush's EPA was considering at the time.
I was one of a cohort of eleven undergraduates enrolled in the University of Chicago's first ever environmental studies major.
The volunteer internship was my chance to put my education into practice, learn a little bit more about policy, and get some school credit while I was at it.
At the time, the EPA was considering changing its National Ambient Air Quality Standards, or NAAQS, a regulation enacted from the Clean Air Act that sets limits for gases that are both emitted from diverse sources and endanger public health or welfare.
It defines six airborne pollutants under these criteria sulfur dioxide, carbon monoxide, nitrogen dioxide, lead, ozone, and fine particulate matter, like soot or industrial dust.
These are the pollutants that usually come to mind when you think of poor air quality.
Chemicals and compounds that can be dangerous to breathe, even at very low concentrations.
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