NEWS: What Did The EPA Actually Just Do? An In-Depth Review

NEWS: What Did The EPA Actually Just Do? An In-Depth Review

February 14, 2026 · 45 min · Season 1 · Episode 344

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The episode discusses the recent EPA announcement regarding the repeal of the endangerment finding and its implications.

Become a paid subscriber to our newsletter/podcast, The Climate Weekly , to help support this show! It's fun. All the cool kids are doing it! -------------------- On Thursday, the Trump Administration's announcement that the EPA was going to repeal the endangerment finding made huge news. Major news outlets across the globe covered it. An avalanche of headlines and push notifications suddenly turned even more attention to attacks on environmental regulation than we've seen during the first year of the second Trump Administration. But what's behind the headlines of this decision? What does this announcement actually do? I asked Andres Restrepo, senior attorney for the Sierra Club's Environmental Law Program, to come on the show to react to what happened this week and explain exactly what this means and where we go from here. I was pretty surprised by his answers. This conversation introduces a lot of nuance and great information and goes behind the headlines you might have seen this week. I cannot recommend this discussion enough. Check out Andres and the Sierra Club's ongoing work here . Please consider becoming a paid subscriber to our newsletter/podcast, The Climate Weekly , to…

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