a rate he got from an environmental protection agency website. but hilex poly says the epa stopped using that rate after 2005. on its website, hilex poly uses a higher rate of 12% of plastic bags recycled. but that rate combines bags with other plastics like shrink wrap. so you think they were inflating the number with wrap. >> well, they were. >> according to the environmental protection agency, 12% of bags, sacks and wraps are recycled. >> reporter: but there's no bags, sacks and wraps mentioned in this. it just says plastic bags are recycled. >> that would be an error on us because we want to be very clear with the american public that it's bags, sacks and wraps. >> reporter: 1% or 12%? either is a failing grade for us consumers. we do a very poor job of recycling our plastic bags. even if you intend to recycle your plastic bags, often they end up in the trash. because while hilex poly's recycling plan is state of the art, many plants look like this up with in san leandro, california. when you put your recyclables in the curb side bin, this is

168 separate occasions this year they tried to take away the authority of the environmental protection agency to protect our air and the water that we drink? is that really the path to economic prosperity in america? the filthy skies that we see in some cities around the united states, the smog that is attended to it, and of course if you go overseas to china, you can cut the air with a knife 24/7. that is the reality of an unregulated business environment. it is a reality that we can change. we can change it with thoughtful regulation. we can change by dedicating ourselves to public health and safety. and we can change by supporting those rules which are consistent with improving public health. i want to salute senator ayotte for her statement on the floor, senator alex ander from tennessee joined her. we believe there will be a handful of stalwart republicans who will step up with us today to defeat the paul amendment. they believe, as we do, this is not a partisan issue. it does our country no good to declare war on the environmental protection agency and to leave ourselves vulnerability t

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. >> reporter: in the mid-90s the environmental protection agency discovered hundreds of drums of -- hazardous materials. jeff hager. >>> about 1,000 gallons of corn syrup leaked from a tank sending gallons of it into the inner harbor. fire forbes said -- officials said it came from the domino factory but this had come from another place. >>> many agree the comet commit will fail, setting into motion more than a trillion dollars in budget cuts. one area that may get hit the hardest is defense. that could mean good news for one maryland county. >> reporter: aberdeen proofing ground is a military hub but they believe that role could expand even more as the military may look to contract. think rough it as addition by con -- subtraction. the military complex will look to streamline and become more e efficiency. harford county believes this may look to aberdeen. they have a blue printed for military technology, research and engineering and it could grow as other bases are forced to shrink. >> by being more efficient, that means less people in the military, which affects those military ins

a rate he got from an environmental protection agency website.ut hilex poly says the epa stopped using that rate after 2005. on its website, hilex poly uses a higher rate of 12% of plastic bags recycled. but that rate combines bags with other plastics like shrink wrap. so you think they were inflating the number with wrap. >> well, they were. >> according to the environmental protection agency, 12% of bags, sacks and wraps are recycled. >> reporter: but there's no bags, sacks and wraps mentioned in this. it just says plastic bags are recycled. >> that would be an error on us because we want to be very clear with the american public that it's bags, sacks and wraps. >> reporter: 1% or 12%? either is a failing grade for us consumers. we do a very poor job of recycling our plastic bags. even if you intend to recycle your plastic bags, often they end up in the trash. because while hilex poly's recycling plan is state of the art, many plants look like this one in san leandro, california. when you put your recyclables in the curb side bin, this is where

>> i did want asked -- the representative from the environmental protection agency to respond to the grid analysis, i am looking at page 13 from his report and it does seem that the test samples in the landfill area, as mr. bloom has mentioned, there is need for analysis that seems to make some sense. i know the samples were done -- also because you know where the hot spot area is, and the additional excavation areas, but how do you know that there are not other hot spots with in this area, if you did not do any sampling of this. and this would respond to the analysis that was mentioned by mr. bloom. >> do we want to put that figure up for people? >> the first thing to think about when you collected that is what you will gain from this, and if this will be full and will add value. and i feel that we have a good understanding of the dimensions of the landfill, where this is that. can we turn on the power point? in the remedial investigations -- they did cross sections of vertical line looking to the soil type and what is going on, and just to address that part -- i feel very confident

to mention that the first health assessment of dioxin completed by the american environmental protection agency estimated that more people will get more cancer from dioxins than any other chemical on earth. it all signs up there are the dow property again this all doubt property. dioxin is a molecule it's a byproduct of chemical processing it is a known carcinogen although i will dispute that dow has been able to manufacture so much uncertainty about this chemical that if you look around the west rest of the world nobody else is debating the toxicity of dioxin except here in michigan. in fact one of the college just. said that this is perhaps one of the most toxic materials he's ever seen. why do you think be disputed now. because there's the financial implication you know there's the pending class action lawsuit against. the river. and i think the implications for. denying the toxicity of the chemical now has bigger broader implications worldwide i mean there are a lot of dioxin contaminations around the country that you know not just responsible for that could be saddled or you know could hav

the environment protection agency provided $1 million toward the clean up of the site. >> actually camefrom 1906 rubble and debris from the earthquake. a lot of it contaminated. no one wanted to build on it for a long period of time. so epa in the state of california came together. >> developers say the clean up and construction created more than 500 jobs. >>> senator barbara boxer has introduced legislation to help homeless veterans. the bill would add a check box on tax returns where people could make a voluntary donation to a new homeless veterans assistance fund. boxer says the bill would give americans a simple way to help the estimated 107,000 veterans who sleep on the street. >>> a drug take back drive netted more than 7.5-tons of unwanted and expired medicine in northern california. on saturday we showed you this site in walnut creek where folks could drop off their unused drugs. it also keeps drugs out of landfills and water ways. >>> it's that time of year, crab season is about to open. what you need to know beginning at midnight. >>> a crack down on registered sex offenders t

according to the national fire protection agency, fires that start with upholstered furniture accountor every five home fire deaths. >> we have fatalities that are directly attributed to this problem. >> reporter: if you have a smoke alarm, don't count on more than three minutes to escape. furniture fires are more intense and spread faster than they did 30 years ago. especially if you have a contemporary couch. >> our couch will involve a living room within three minutes. 20 years ago, grandma's coach would smolder more. >> reporter: retired san jose fire captain, les perkens, every second counts. reports from the u.s. fire data center, shows most fires respond to structure fires in four minutes or less. the problem is, unlike your grandma's coach, filled with natural materials, like cotton, almost all furniture has synthetic materials. >> it burns very vigorously and produces a lot of energy or heat. >> reporter: creating gases that will quickly disorient you. after one person died in a couch fire in this apartment, fire analysis teams in berkeley did this test burn of a couch, using

but i'm ashamed right now there are no protection agency the bureau of indian affairs with the form of the interior because they've spent all this time talking to us telling us you know what they think we want to hear but if you drive through picher drive down the road it looks the same as it did when they turned off the pumps and they walked away no one cares about the people that live there this is not a safe place to live it's a good place there's good people here and it's not fit they've been whispers about buying this place out since it was named superfund in eighty three and a horrible water all this mine waste direct danger to children they couldn't get the help they need it should have been easy to put a buyout together whether it's a dioxin scare they want to build a lake or highway somewhere buyouts out and all the time and human health dangers here seem to qualify plus starkey graydon's had an ace in the hole oklahoma senior senator jim inhofe chair of the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee over seas and directs the e.p.a. and inhofe oversa

regulations that are coming down, whether it's on financial services or consumers or environmental protection agency or the obama care as its called, they are uncertainly as to what all these regulations will do them and they're hesitant to make investments so they're not sure how to plan ahead. above all, he has to work hard and do everything he can, and i think he's pursuing this very aggressively now to create jobs for the people who don't have jobs. >> on the tick box of his score sheet, some stunning successes in terms of foreign policy many would argue getting bin laden. for you personally, you were at the start of that mission. where were you when you heard that bin laden had been killed? >> i was in my home, and i heard the news. i was absolutely delighted. this terrible person, and it was a marvelous military operation with the possibility of something going really bad. >> very awe addition yus. >> very bold. that's the kind of young men and women we have. these folks are really, really good. >> did you admire the president for the shear awe das city of the decision-making of that? >> you h