David Gelles

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Fresh Air · Inside the U.S. reversal on climate change action · 28 Jan 2026 podcast

but instead that its role was to support economic activity.

And I think it's just worth dwelling on what a fundamental reversal that is.

And that set the table for so many actions that have followed.

They have repealed or tried to weaken regulatory standards for a raft of pollutants coming out of power plants.

industrial facilities, and vehicles.

They have tried to challenge the very legal framework that allows the EPA to regulate harmful pollutants and greenhouse gases.

And just a couple weeks ago, they actually recalculated the math by which they attribute value to a human life, and they determined that the value of a human life was zero.

And so in all these ways, both abstract and very specific, you see the Environmental Protection Agency walking away from its historical role as the defender of public health and public air and clean air and clean water, and instead embracing a posture that is almost entirely designed to support people

industry in being free to do whatever it wants.

I mean, for the past 30 years, the EPA has assessed the value of a statistical life at around $11.7 million.

Today, it is now going to be zero.

Dave, I'm in New York right now, and it is freezing cold right here.

There's no doubt about it.

It's also the truth that 2025 was the warmest year overall in global recorded history, and that all 10...

of the hottest years in recorded history have happened over the past decade.

And so, as you said, no one weather event can be directly linked to climate change or not.

But what the science has been overwhelmingly clear about is that emissions from the burning of fossil fuels

from human activity, from agriculture, are turning up the temperature on Earth overall.

And as that happens, weather gets more extreme and it gets less predictable.

And so one of the things that we have been seeing, over the past several years especially, is that the Arctic has been getting warmer.

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