I came prepared this week. Do we like The Guardian?
I like The Guardian. It has some good stuff in
it. Because I had a choice of sources on this
one and I couldn't remember if the New York one
I did see it under first was one that we liked
or not and I just felt too much pressure on it
and I didn't know where to go with it. So I looked
for another source. So here we are. Glad we like
The Guardian. This one from The Guardian. January
14, 2026. I'm not sure who it's from. It might
be the Trump administration. It says Trump administration
at the top. EPA to stop calculating money and
lives saved by curbs on air pollution. The Environmental
Protection Agency says it will stop calculating
how much money is saved in health care costs
avoided and deaths prevented from air pollution
rules that curb too deadly pollutants. The change
means the EPA will focus rules for fine particulate
matter and ozone only on that cost to industry,
part of a broader realignment under Donald Trump
toward a business -friendly approach that has
included the rollback of multiple policies meant
to safeguard human health and the environment
and slow climate change. This just keeps getting
more infuriating the more I talk. Yeah largely
considered a bad thing to take care of your citizens
over the cost of capital. The agency said in
a statement late on Monday that it quote absolutely
remains committed to our core mission of protecting
human health and the environment end quote but
quote will not be monetizing the impacts at this
time end quote. The EPA will continue to cost
to businesses to comply with the rules and will
continue ongoing work to refine its economic
methodologies of pollution rules, spokesperson
Bridget Hirsch said. Environmental and public
health advocates called the agency's actions
a dangerous abdication of one of its core missions.
Quote, the EPA's mandate is to protect public
health, not to ignore the science in order to
eliminate clean air safeguards that save lives,
said John Walk, a senior attorney for the Natural
Resources Defence Council. There is an end quote
somewhere up there. He called the change in how
public health benefits are calculated reckless,
dangerous, and illegal, adding, quote, by pretending
real health benefits do not count, EPA wants
to open the door for industry to foul the air
while communities and families pay the price
in asthma attacks, heart disease, and premature
deaths, end quote. The change in how the EPA
calculates health benefits was first reported
by the New York Times. The move comes as the
Trump administration is seeking to abandon a
rule that sets tough standards for deadly soot
pollution, arguing that the Biden administration
did not have authority to set the tighter standard
on pollution from tailpipes, smokestacks, and
other industrial sources. In a court filing in
November, the EPA said the Biden -era rule was
done without the rigorous stepwise process that
Congress required and was therefore unlawful.
It's amazing to hear them say that they care
about what Congress needs. Yeah, or that something's
unlawful. Yeah President couldn't do this It's
incredible to hear these words put to this kind
of use the EPA said it continued to recognize
the quote clear and well -documented benefits
of reducing fine particulate matter also known
as PM 2 .5 and ozone quote, not monetizing does
not equal not considering or not valuing the
human health impact, end quote. Hirsch said in
an emailed statement saying the agency under
its administrator Lee Zeldin remains committed
to protecting human health since the EPA. He
forgot to put rich humans health. Yeah, exactly.
Those are the only humans they care about. Yeah,
exactly. The ones who own the stock, their health
will be fine. The ones that know the secrets
about the pedophiles. Since the EPA's creation
more than 50 years ago, Republican and Democratic
administrators have used different estimates
to assign monetary value to human life and cost
-benefit analyses. Under Biden, the EPA estimated
that its proposed rule on PM2 .5 would prevent
up to 4 ,500 premature deaths and 290 ,000 lost
work days by 2032. I did really good at those
numbers by the way. Everybody send us an email
and let me know. For every $1 spent on reducing
PM 2 .5, the agency said there could be as much
as $77 in health benefits. Yeah, less money spent
on health care because they're healthier. But
the Trump administration contends that these
estimates are misleading. By failing to include
ranges or other qualifying statements, the EPA's
use of an estimate leads the public to believe
the agency has a better understanding of the
monetized impacts of exposure to PM2 .5 and ozone
than in reality. The agency said in an economic
impact analysis for the new rule. Therefore,
to rectify this error, the EPA is no longer monetizing
benefits from PM2 .5 and ozone but will continue
to quantify the emissions until the agency is
confident enough in the modeling to properly
monetize those impacts. The United States has
made substantial progress in reducing PM2 .5
in ozone concentrations since 2000, the agency
said, but critics said a new EPA rule that revises
emission limits for dangerous nitrogen oxide
pollution from new gas -burning turbines used
in power plants demonstrates the risk of a new
approach. Emissions of nitrogen Oxide, also known
as NOX, forms smog and soot that is harmful to
human health and linked to serious heart and
lung diseases. The EPA's final NOX rule, issued
on Monday, is substantially less restrictive
than a proposal under the Biden administration
for some gas plants the rule weakens protections
in place for two decades. The new rule does not
estimate the economic value of health benefits
from reducing NOX and other types of air pollution
under the Clean Air Act. Critics said the change
meant the EPA will ignore the economic value
of life save hospital visits avoided and lost
work and school days prevented under Trump the
EPA quote recklessly refuses to place any value
on protecting the health of millions of Americans
from nitrogen oxides pollution in the face of
mountains of medical science finding that this
pollution contributes to asthma attacks heart
disease and other serious health problems and
quote said no ha ha gag a lawyer for the environment
environmental defense fund another environmental
group end of article i forgot to start that with
a warning that this is going to be bad news okay
i didn't know that with everything you just heard
i've been showing people in my regular life this
picture to kind of like exemplify the trajectory
all the world's on so that's the epa the us what
they're working on i'm gonna share my screen
with you here am i not in your regular life why
haven't i seen this Well, because you're not
in my regular life in the way that you would
expect. This is what China's working on. This
is a blimp that goes 2 ,000 meters into the sky.
Okay. And just sits there with, what is that?
Two, four, six, eight, ten, twelve wind farm
turbines in it. generates power up there and
like completely out of sight out of mind from
everybody and in much better wind conditions
because it can just go where there's higher winds.
It seems like there'd be a lot more wind up there.
So the US is worried about EPA regulations and
making sure that companies can pollute as much
as possible. China is formulating new ways of
working on wind farms. On top of that, they're
also the largest installers of solar and wind
power in the world. And like we've talked about
these things all in the past and just you can
see who is clearly going to be the winner of
the next century with this stuff. Oh, yeah, I
think it's clear. It's very clear. Yeah, that's
just one that I haven't heard yet for the podcast
that we are and we might be getting I'm going
to cut it soon. I promise, guys. This is a mini
after all. For the promise of all the alien disclosure
that I'm sure a lot of people in the community
especially David Wilcock are pretty excited for
right now. The Trump administration is doing
some pretty fucking heinous shit, and I'm nodding
out to get derailed by a little bit of alien
disclosure. When he very clearly knows nothing
about it for everything he says. I think it's
just another thing that he's kind of like, oh,
look at this instead of the fact that I am in
the Epstein files, because I am allegedly a pedophile.
So don't forget that. I guess opinion at this
point, but I don't know. When this podcast comes
out, who knows where we're at. It's true. Things
move fast. They do. Real fast these days. Anyhow,
you guys got 48 hours. Just like, brace your
legs for everything that happens because it's
just like, it'll happen. There's 48 hours. I
hope they're already braced. That's a lot of
time. Yeah. Okay. Bye. Bye.