christie todd whitman to exempt hydraulic fracking from safe drinking water act regulations my own point of view as a technician i just thought it very alarming the e.p.a. technically had described how toxic these materials are toxic at the point of injection and still come out with a summary that says they don't need to be reported to regulate. and that led me in the fall of zero four to object on technical grounds then the inspector general of e.p.a. began an investigation of my complaints. and. several months into that. congress took the report from e.p.a. saying that fracking did not present a risk. along with other information and exempted hydraulic fracking from regulation on the safe drinking water act that lays you and i as the american public in this position we cannot know. what the industry injects in our land wind it is exempt from being reported. down the colorado river about nine miles to the west of silt is the town of rifle. m. phone thought through. this is only losing one was . this is before. this is three. hundred years. it's been the worst fifteen years i'm i'm fifty

. >> christie todd whitman got elected, right? >> sean: i'm still here.houldn't serve liquor in the green room, i can tell you that right now. >> i knew that he was the governor a long time ago. >> you guys are doing great. >> somebody knows theirive ics. >> sean: you said before we came on the air this was not one of our topics. i asked what you guys want to talk about. you said you don't think the economy is affected by government. >> years and years ago i interviewed jimmy carter and we talked about why he lost. he said that certainly the helicopter crashes and all, so the economy -- i asked him how much the president and the congress affect the economy, and he says he doesn't think more than 10%. he goes businessmen have to make it happen. >> that may have been the problem with the carter presidency. >> i cannot believe that stuff happened under george bush, whether you want to blame it on him or not, doesn't make michigan difference, but the economy is run by businessmen. we were upset by what happened. regulations came in because of what happened wi

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