as e.p.a. administrator -- e.p.a. administrator, requiring the agency to be up front with he cost and benefits of all regulations going forward, to our -- to the permitting reforms in place, where we've gotten our permitting down to cases.ix months, in most to the guidance documents being ade available on a public database. today's decision on science transparency, where we are american to the public for the first time, what are the science studies that we regulatory r our the data for those studies can be sure they public.lable to the and i want to, again, thank you for hosting this. kent, thank you so much. great to see you again. i appreciate c.e.i. hosting this event today. want to reflect that back to you. i appreciate the work that you've been doing. to explain your work and show your work. please stay healthy. just to ask our audience for 90 seconds of your time, as we wrap up, you will directed to a e short survey. it will take less than two minutes of your time. shape the programming going forward. as you kno

six years after the waxman-markey climate bill passed the house, the obama e.p.a. finalized its markey climate regulation. which was quickly killed dead in the starting block by the five republicans on the supreme court. the clean power plan never even went into effect. it had no regulatory core or backstop that was indisputably within e.p.a.'s authority. so when the clean power plan's novelties got smacked down, nothing was left. john kerry, bless him, led us into the paris agreement. but it wasn't signed until the last year of eight years of that administration. it being so late, the fossil fuel interests behind trump hauled us right back out of it. so there we were after eight years in which democrats sometimes controlled both houses of congress as well as the white house, and we had at the end of the day no law, no regulation, no treaty. i'm hanging up the time to wake up poster after more than 275 of these speeches because i am going to trust that we bring more spirit and determination to the climate crisis this time, as president biden has promised that we wi

get us from the e.p.a. f.l. thank you very much for being on the show today. thank you and his our science correspondent eric williams with your questions on the corona virus. what lessons are we learning from covered 19 that might help us deal with the next pandemic this excellent question has way more answers than i can go into here but some lessons are obviously more importance than others at the top of the list i'd say is what we've learned about rapid response a sars cove to completely out ran our ability to get on top of it early because it could spread faster than we could react i don't want to go into why or who supposedly did what wrong early on because because i think it makes no sense to play the blame game but it does make sense to look at how we can speed up international response to spillover events like the one that started this pandemic because if you can be certain of one thing it's that they're going to happen again in the future and that means in my opinion giving the w.h.o. or a successor organization the money and real backing it will need

performing knowledge states that will be able to meet to get your sense of the mexican didn't get from the e.p.a. f l thank you very much for being on the show today. thank you and he's our science correspondent eric williams with your questions on the coronavirus. lessons are we learning from covered 19 that might help us deal with the next pandemic this excellent question has way more answers than i can go into here but some lessons are obviously more importance than others at the top of the list i'd say is what we've learned about rapid response a sars coup for 2 completely out ran our ability to get on top of it early because it could spread faster than we could react i don't want to go into why or who supposedly did what wrong early on because because i think it makes no sense to play the blame game but it does make sense to look at how we can speed up international response to spillover events like the one that started this pandemic because if you can be certain of one thing it's that they're going to happen again in the future and that means in my opinion giving the w.h.o. or a successor

fully just still it and and if we're not fully explaining things to our patients and as a food lines e.p.a. leaves a signature have a difficult position of having to say to people yes you did consent and to receive this vaccine 3 weeks ago and bullets actually we're going to delay it for 12 weeks and some of our patients maintenon to us since i actually i wouldn't have gone to that vaccine had had i known that this was going tested regime we feel that what's really vital here is that the public have high confidence in the vaccine bowed out and high confidence that if we say we're going to do something that's what we day has been very very very organized and patients have come to that face back seen them being given their equipment in time to come to their 2nd 3 states there so obviously do is provide a real that you stickle and night mag to then have to cancel days and then have to try and set up systems do very very quickly to make sure that we're cool they say she's in 12 weeks time and as best we can to call them to have the same vaccine when actually a truck we are not sure the vaccine

to distribute bottled water 2017 lead levels are measured below 15 parts per 1000000000 that's the e.p.a. action level and the state ends water bill subsidies study demonstrates decreased fertility rates and increased fetal deaths since the 2014 switch 2019 pipes are being replaced 7 of 15 officials accused of fouling flints water and failing to address the crisis take pleas with no jail time 2 years ago on this show legalities from detroit is for environmental justice was already pointing the finger at snyder he was the one that put people in harm's way by putting emergency manager in him as it was him and his cronies and his agents that act the water switch over and if it wasn't for people inside d.e.q. that notified me that they were falsifying the test results and i went on ed schultz show and announced it but the people in flint knew it from day one people need to be held accountable because if you if i went to flint and i poisoned one well i would be in jail for murder but obviously you can be the governor and poison the whole city and not be held accountable as we tape this week s

six years after the waxman-markey climate bill passed the house, the obama e.p.a. finalized its markey climate regulation. which was quickly killed dead in the starting block by the five republicans on the supreme court. the clean power plan never even went into effect. it had no regulatory core or backstop that was indisputably within e.p.a.'s authority. so when the clean power plan's novelties got smacked down, nothing was left. john kerry, bless him, led us into the paris agreement. but it wasn't signed until the last year of eight years of that administration. it being so late, the fossil fuel interests behind trump hauled us right back out of it. so there we were after eight years in which democrats sometimes controlled both houses of congress as well as the white house, and we had at the end of the day no law, no regulation, no treaty. i'm hanging up the time to wake up poster after more than 275 of these speeches because i am going to trust that we bring more spirit and determination to the climate crisis this time, as president biden has promised that we wi

i remember begging the obama e.p.a. to come to west virginia to see how the regulations with no time to transition were destroying more of our state's economy. they were destroying our families. they really didn't seem to care. the only response i got in one of my hearings was, well, they'll come to pittsburgh. well, that's not coming to west virginia. look, i'm not here to just put down the biden administration. i want to work with the administration, and i'm going to be in a position to do that, as ranking member on e.p.w. i want to be part of the solution. i am not a climate denier. we all need to take care of our planet. we must be good stewards of our earth and our water. we know it is the right thing to do. the free market is already moving in that direction, which was part of the presentation yesterday. private companies are cutting their emissions. that's awesome. as we see the emissions figures, they've gone way down over the last 15 years. consumers moving towards greener products? that's great. i think find m

i created the e.p.a.! i ended the draft! i signed the equal rights amendment! i could name all my kids without looking at flash cards. plus, i never paid anyone to spank me. the american people did that for free. mr. president, i served with richard nixon. i knew richard nixon. richard nixon was me. sir, you are no richard nixon. but you are a dick. niou! >> stephen: the ghost of richard nixon, everyone! the president might be choppering off to mar-a-lago, but the maga menace isn't going away. case in point: some democrats in congress are worried their colleagues might kill them. okay. boy, i read that casually. ( laughter ) that took me by surprise, and i knew it was coming. it means it's time to play the murder mystery game "clue... klux klan instigators." and they're all guilty. and they're all mr. white. more specifically, democrats think some of their colleagues aided the rioters before and during the attack on the capitol. so this week, more than 30 democratic house members signed a letter demanding that authorities investigate "suspicious" visitors at th

republicans used to take it pressie nixon created the e.p.a. and george h.w.tablished the global research committee. but after a massive bush by the fossil fuel industry, g.o.p. lawmakers and some democrats, there has been a shift toward devastating denial and inaction in the face of scientific consensus. culminating in donald trump who was a climate denier. he called global warming an expensive hoax. he curtailed the clean power plan. he promoted coal and fracking. he said wind turbines caused cancer. he deregulated the oil and gas industries. all of the while natural disasters raged across the united states and the world made work by climate change. during donald trump's term eight million acres of land in california were burned by wild fires. last year alone we broke records for the frequency of named storms. 30 of them. president biden promised to make cliemtt climate change a priority. but that just brings us back to where we were four years ago. greta thunberg who is known for challenging leaders, and also a leading voice on climate change that wrote sev

state of michigan and we expect the settlement now at $641 million will only grow as it includes the e.p.aing firms. so no, we'll never be able to make the residents of the city of flint whole. no matter how much money, no matter how lengthy the prison sentences are of anyone who is charged, and if they're convicted, they won't be made whole. all we can do is hold people accountable and to make the promise that while the three of us are in charge of the executive offices, nothing like this will ever happen again. >> governor, one of those activists briefly referred to the proposed $641 million that will be distributed to those impacted by the water crisis. a district judge expected to rule on it by this thursday. how will you ensure the money goes to the residents who need it? >> so we've been working, one of the things that is i think my least favorite as effect on being governor is that my name is substituted for my predecessors against the former administration. that decisions around flint happened then and yet we have worked in conjunction the attorney general as she said, very closely

it will require researchers to publicly disclose their raw data before the e.p.a. rely on their conclusions. and, stocks bounced back on the dow industrial average gained more than 167 points to close above 30,391. the nasdaq rose 120 points, and the s&p 500 added 26. the u.s. sets another record for covid-19vnfections, as cination lags behind projections. we discuss the president's ongoing refusal to concede the election with current and form u.s. senators. pro-iran militias in iraq grow increasingly hostile to the u.s. and, much more. the ungdited k is under national lockdown tonight, as a highly contagious mutation of covid-19 has hospitals buckling there under the strain of new patien. daniel hewitt of independent television news reports from >> reporter: on the first full day of this third lockdown, even some semance of normality feels right now a distant hope. a few were making the most of the smfraldoms that remain as the prime minister revealed a big jump in the number of people with coronavirus. >> people understand overwhweelmingly thaave no choice when t

domestic climate policy and i'll be led by one of america's most distinguished climate leaders former e.p.a. director gina mccarthy as the head of the new office and my national climate advisor gina will chair the national climate task force made up of many members of our cabinet to deliver a whole of government approach to the climate crisis this is not it's not time for small measures we need to be bold so let me be clear that includes helping revitalize the economies of coal oil and gas and power plant communities we have to start pretty new good paying jobs kapinos abandoned wells reclaiming mines turning old brownfield sites in the new hubs of economic growth creating new good paying jobs in those communities where those workers live because they helped build this country were never going to read the men and women who dug the coal and built the nation. we're going to do right by them make sure they have opportunities to keep building the nation in their own communities and getting paid well for it while the whole of government approach is necessary though it's not sufficient we're goin

this we're now in the situation where the e.p.a. has one of the worst death rates in the world so boris johnson has been saying that . this is something that he bears responsibility for as the prime minister but it's the the u.k. and his government did everything that it could have to forwarded those deaths now of course this is being picked up on by opposition politicians by kids stallman who's the leader of the of the labor opposition party the scottish national party has been saying criticizing the prime minister as well saying that this is patently not true every time that he has made a decision they say he's made it too late and the travel restrictions are not the example of that they're pointing to saying that they've been calling for tougher restrictions the u.k.'s borders for months that should have been tightened up a long long time ago and yet again. they say the forest runs and has chosen to fudge the issue a half baked policy is what kids dhamma cold it saying that this is essentially something that it is taking trying t

federal government, things like the e.p.a. and the interior department.ut i also anticipate him to work closely with states, which have made a lot of progress reducing emissions over the last four years, and lean on these states to achieve its goals. so it's going to be tricky to see how he kind of hobbles together the numbers to reach his goal. but he's going to try to do that because it all comes back to the paris deal. he's going to anticipate, although -- i anticipate he will put that goal in the u.s.'s -- [indiscernible] host: one more quick question before we get to calls. with so many competing interests out there, we know the president is pushing a $2 trillion stimulus bill, there's the covid relief action that he put forth yesterday. how does climate change or how did climate change get so far up on the agenda of just day three of the administration? guest: i would say this has been years in the making. i like to call it sort of a puzzle of all these facts that are have come together to make climate change a front burner issue. even in the middle

federal government, things like the e.p.a. and the interior department. but i also anticipate him to work closely with states, which have made a lot of progress reducing emissions over the last four years, and lean on these states to achieve its goals. so it's going to be tricky to see how he kind of hobbles together the numbers to reach his goal. but he's going to try to do that because it all comes back to the paris deal. he's going to anticipate, although -- i anticipate he will put that goal in the u.s.'s -- [indiscernible] host: one more quick question before we get to calls. with so many competing interests out there, we know the president is pushing a $2 trillion stimulus bill, there's the covid relief action that he put forth yesterday. how does climate change or how did climate change get so far up on the agenda of just day three of the administration? guest: i would say this has been years in the making. i like to call it sort of a puzzle of all these facts that are have come together to make climate change a front burner issue. even in the midd

for is the robust continuing education and utilization with other cities and planning departments, e.p.a. on challenges that we need perhaps in similar as it is spread across the country in different kinds every responses. this department has always been the leader in innovative planning and pilot programming. i hope we will find a resource for each of our staff to stay current, look at future skills, to continue to form technology but also in the real art of planning. as you indicate, it would need to be program and budget-driven to approve development application by staying strong and creative in the art of planning itself. i appreciate the addition of additional departments to dill e skill level and i hope we will have some support for robust continuing education to stay ahead of the curve. thanks. >> commissioner diamond. >> i want to thank fellow commissioners for their comments. i want to follow up on a point raised by commissioner fung. that is how we plan in times of uncertainty. i would like reassured we are budgeting for scenario planning to address different outcomes. i think

and certainly i look forward to working with my e.p.a. counterpart on this issue.i think it's -- it's very, very important to mitigate the effects of these contaminants as soon as we can. you can look for us to stay committed to that. sen. peters: i appreciate that, yen. you mentioned in a number of questions about the changing nature of warfare and we are on the cusp of major changes as a result of technology alluded to some in the last answer, whether it's a.i., automation, directed weapons, we know we're in a technological revolution that will change the way we live dramatically. when that happens, it also changes the face of warfare in dramatic ways. and it's not just the complexity of our tools, but as you mentioned, it's the strategic an operational environment as well. it's going to require some really -- some creative thinking outside normal policies and how we prepare for this change. and i think a lot of that requires changing some of the culture, particularly if you have a large bureaucratic organization like the department of defense. like any large bur

just last month, the e.p.a. finalized another big rule that requires e.p.a. to prepare a cost-benefit analysis before coming up with new regulations. now, how is that all unreasonable? americans shake their heads and they wonder why we would pass things that don't have any kind of a cost-benefit analysis. what's it going to cost? what kind of sacrifice are we going to have to make? we put that into effect, and it's something that i think people are very claifl for. throughout his tenure, andy has been focused on what is in the best interests of taxpayers, not just the washington bureaucrats. that's clear with this rule and countless others. you know, one of the good things about andy is i already mentioned that he knows more about that process than anybody else does, more about the e.p.a. he has always been a star. he started at the bottom. when he was first put into that office and was confirmed as e.p.a. director, he gave a speech over the e.p.a. he didn't know i was there. i went over there to hear it. he had 300 of the people with the e.p.a. all listening