EPA Lifts Emissions Limits on Power Plants & Hyrox Finds Itself in a Stinky Situation

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Neal Freyman (0:29)

Good Morning Brew Daily Show. I'm Neal Freyman.

Toby Howell (0:32)

And I'm Toby Howell.

Neal Freyman (0:33)

Today, the EPA lifts power plant emissions limits, delighting the coal industry but enraging environmentalists.

Toby Howell (0:39)

Then Hyrox found itself in a sticky and stinky situation this past week. It's Tuesday, September 15th.

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Neal Freyman (0:54)

There are more than 8.3 billion people alive today, but you can become the best at one particular skill as long as it's random enough. That's my takeaway from the Guinness World Records, which revealed some fresh records found in its 2027 book. There's the five-year-old from Houston who became the world's youngest female yoga instructor after completing a 200-hour training course, or ephemeral Remy, the most tattooed living person after applying ink to some areas of his body over 100 times, or the narrowest drivable car, a rebuilt Fiat Panda measuring less than 20 inches wide. Toby, something tells me you're the kind of guy who's tried to break a Guinness World Record at some point in your life.

Toby Howell (1:34)

I grew up collecting a Guinness Book of World Records, one, because I just loved how they looked, all the different colors lined up. I also loved memorizing mostly the animal facts for whatever reason. I always know that the hawkmoth is the fastest airborne insect, but it did get me thinking, what could Toby Howell set a Guinness Book of World Record in? And I think it has to be a Venn diagram of two things, because it's hard to be the best in one thing. But if you took the fastest marathon and lowest golf round completed in one day, I think I got a shot because the Venn diagram of people who can break three and break par must be small. So that's exactly where my mind went.

Neal Freyman (2:12)

Do you know how the application process goes? Like how can you just submit literally anything like that?

Toby Howell (2:16)

I think to have it verified, you pay, that's how they make their money. You need someone to come and verify that you did everything properly. So that's one thing. But I think you can also do something and then retroactively submit it as well. It also had me thinking about you, Neal. Any ideas of what you could do?

Neal Freyman (2:34)

I'll have to think about it more. Nothing comes to mind. I'm just that. I'm the average Joe at literally everything.

Toby Howell (2:39)

But I was going through some of these and one woman set the record for the most frog related memorabilia. Another one for most My Little Pony memorabilia. So just start collecting something now in 56 years, you'll have to get his Book of World Records.

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Neal Freyman (3:45)

President Trump's EPA wants power plants to let it rip. Carbon emissions be darned. Yesterday, the Environmental Protection Agency announced it would lift a cap on planet warming greenhouse gas emissions spewed by coal and natural gas plants with the goal of saving over $300 billion and unleashing an abundance of American energy. For the two most recent Democratic presidents, Joe Biden and Barack Obama, this is like having all your work wiped out by a computer before you saved it. Their tenure saw the government tighten emissions requirements from power plants to cars to prevent climate change from spiring out of control. In 2024, the Biden administration finalized a rule that required coal plants to add technology that would collect and trap emissions before they were released to the air, while forcing gas plants to operate on cleaner fuels like hydrogen. These rules were opposed by the oil and gas industry and Republicans who accused Biden of regulating the coal, oil and gas industries out of existence. Trump, who has called climate change a hoax, has pursued an agenda of so called energy abundance that scrapped dozens of climate focused policies and promoted fossil fuel production. Critics from the energy, environmental and public health spaces blasted the move. Zealand Hoover, a former EPA senior advisor under Biden, told the Washington Post that quote, by eliminating the power plant pollution standards, Trump is choosing to allow preventable asthma attacks, heart disease and even deaths, former vice president Al Gore said, the EPA's action moves the US in the exact opposite direction of the rest of the world. One thing's for sure, this will be challenged in court imminently.