EPA targets dozens of rules. And, ‘stranded’ astronauts might return to Earth

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The Environmental Safety Company introduced yesterday plans to goal greater than two dozen guidelines and insurance policies. The company is reconsidering guidelines that restrict local weather air pollution from automobiles and energy crops, rules that restrict soot and mercury within the air, and extra. EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin known as it the “most consequential day of deregulation in U.S. history.” It isn’t but clear whether or not the EPA plans to weaken these rules or remove them fully.

• 🎧 NPR’s local weather desk correspondent Jeff Brady tells Up First that some of the vital rules on the record is known as the “endangerment finding.” The EPA decided in 2009 that human-caused greenhouse gases within the ambiance endanger public well being and welfare. It is the premise for most of the nation’s local weather rules. Brady provides that this EPA announcement is much more dramatic than what local weather teams anticipated — and definitely extra aggressive than the politics President Trump pursued throughout his first administration. The Environmental Integrity Venture stated the EPA is driving “a dagger straight into the heart of public health.”

The world is ready for Russia’s response to a 30-day ceasefire supply the U.S. and Ukraine brokered earlier this week. Below the proposal, the U.S. has promised to revive army and intelligence help to Ukraine in trade for Ukraine promising to finish air assaults on Russia. Trump officers are anticipated in Moscow this morning, and Trump stated he hopes to talk to Russian President Vladimir Putin on the telephone quickly.

• 🎧 Putin has beforehand stated that he would not settle for a brief ceasefire as a result of he desires peace that addresses “the root of the conflict.” NPR’s Charles Maynes says that is Kremlin converse for Russia’s bigger nationwide safety considerations concerning NATO close to Russia’s borders. Polls present a majority of Russians need an finish to the battle.

A SpaceX capsule is scheduled to hold 4 astronauts to the Worldwide Area Station tomorrow, clearing the best way for 2 astronauts who’ve been labeled as “stranded” to return to Earth. Yesterday’s launch try was postponed as a consequence of a difficulty with a floor help clamp arm. Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams went as much as the house station final June and had been alleged to spend a couple of week there. They’ve remained on the ISS after the experimental Boeing capsule they took into orbit malfunctioned. Trump and his shut adviser Elon Musk have claimed there are political motivations behind the choice to go away the astronauts there — allegations former astronauts and NASA officers have denied.

In the present day’s hear

NEW YORK, NEW YORK – JANUARY 15: Freedom Readers Founder Reginald Dwayne Betts speaks on stage throughout thirty eighth Annual Brooklyn Tribute To Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. at BAM Howard Gilman Opera Home on January 15, 2024 in New York Metropolis. (Photograph by Jason Mendez/Getty Photos for (BAM) Brooklyn Academy of Music )

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Creator Reginald Dwayne Betts says that Doggerel, the identify of his new assortment of poems, often means mediocre poetry. However there’s extra behind the identify. “I wanted to write poems that say, this is for everybody,” Betts tells Morning Version host Michel Martin throughout a current interview. “So, if you’re looking for some laughter, there’s something here for you. If you’re looking for love, there’s something here for you.” In the course of the interview, Betts reads his poem Grief from the gathering. Hearken to it and be taught extra about his works right here.

Life recommendation

{Photograph} by Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Photos; Collage by Becky Harlan/NPR

{Photograph} by Kinga Krzeminska/Getty Photos; Collage by Becky Harlan/NPR

It is perhaps time to mud off your resumé and provides it an replace. Over the previous few years, resumé codecs have shifted. Parts like your own home handle have turn into much less vital because of the rise in distant and hybrid work. Including a URL to your LinkedIn profile may help hiring managers as know-how performs a bigger position in recruiting. Profession coach Cynthia Pong shares with NPR’s Life Equipment recommendations on the way to write a CV that is aggressive and up-to-date.

• 📄 Replace your resumé each six months. This fashion, you’ll at all times be able to share it at any time when a possibility arises.
• 📄 You probably have gaps in your resumé, take into account including in unpaid group work, volunteer service, freelance work and training or talent growth you probably did throughout that point.
• 📄You do not have to place your commencement 12 months from school if it was greater than a decade in the past, particularly if you happen to’re apprehensive about age discrimination. Current grads ought to embody theirs.

Listed here are extra tricks to comply with for refreshing your resumé. Take a look at Life Equipment’s recommendation for touchdown a brand new job, and join Life Equipment’s e-newsletter for professional recommendation on well being, cash, relationships and extra.

3 issues to know earlier than you go

The gold ring was uncovered in 2019.

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1. A medieval bishop’s ring from the late twelfth or early thirteenth century is anticipated to fetch between $19,000 and $23,000 when it goes up for public sale later this month. Retired firefighter Mark Promote discovered the ring in 2019 whereas he was out in a area with a steel detector.
2. Congress has reintroduced the CROWN Act, a bipartisan effort to ban discrimination based mostly on coiffure or hair texture as a consequence of race.
3. Two highschool college students have been acknowledged for his or her modern analysis at this 12 months’s Regeneron Science Expertise Search, the nation’s oldest science and math competitors.

This text was edited by Yvonne Dennis. Brittney Melton contributed.