long running environmental battle police removed activists from a german forest excuse me cleared for coal mining the protest to say they will not give up. i'm filled jail welcome to the program germany's chancellor and key party leaders have ended an initial crisis meeting and aimed at resolving the brow of the head of the country's domestic intelligence service and america's coalition partners the social democrats want hans-georg mohsen to bizarre following his controversial comments about recent far right protest in the city of candidates talks about his faith to do to resume early next week. could the president of germany's domestic secret service bring down the government that's what the papers are asking social democrats a conservative hun's georg masson must go if not they could quit angela merkel's governing coalition and there's anyone at the head of a security institution of our country has to be absolutely trustworthy and it's obvious that this trust no longer exists so there must be consequences. for now conservatives are backing masson he's accused of improperly passing on sen

but exported coal. the united kingdom moved manufacturing offshore and then claimed hey everybody wants to take the left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing. the whole problem is so complicated. why is it for instance if you look at nitric acts said production. thirty-five times more greenhouse gases to make a unit volume of nitric acid than it does in the united kingdom. there is the crazy patchwork of stuff. it means possibly some of the shell games would work. very detailed overall regulation. it's just get can be a nightmare. as more regulation the answer. there has to be rules with how much they can dump into the community. i remember sitting on my couch. and i was watching the news in the local anchor and reporter was basically saying there had been at a chevron oil risk finery explosion. just north of uc berkeley. and everyone who lives there was called to shelter in place. it's how unsafe the air was. it blew my mind because i have not grown up in a community like that. did you hear t

what coal mining is about?ork to here, whether you're on a boat, plane, train, or in the sky or driving on a car, it's because of a mine. >> anthony: mining causes damage to the environment. of this, there is no doubt. but what cannot be grown, must be mined. there ain't no cellphones, for instance, without mines somewhere. >> anthony: does anybody think it's going to come back, big time, like 30 years ago? >> miner: my personal opinion? every time a republican is in there it goes up. >> anthony: right. [ laughter ] this used to be a solidly democratic state. what do you think made trump attractive? >> richard: that's easy for me. hilary shows up here and she openly said she's going to put a lot of coal miners out of work. wrong answer. >> anthony: how many kids you got? >> miner: i got three. >> patrick: six. >> miner 2: four. >> anthony: if you saw your kids had other options, would you recommend that they join the family business? >> group: no sir. >> anthony: you would say no. >> richard: i'd about guarante

you need coal to burn and water to generate steam.o they have located these coal fire plants near water bodies will stop that is rivers and lakes and drinking water reservoirs. when they burn the cold, they're left with ash. doesn't have to go into a pit. it simply could have been moved uphill and stored try and a lined landfill, or even recycled in the concrete. ,ut instead, to save some money and for their convenience, the betweens dug big kits their plans and the river simply because water runs downhill. so they would suck water out of the river, mix it and create a polluted mess with this ash -- they call that slurry -- and then just flush it downhill into these unlined pits. it is obviously a foolish way to store this stuff. it is obviously risky and dangerous. and it obviously police on a good day. but on a bad day when we have a serious hurricane, this unnecessary choice puts communities and waterways and clean drinking water at risk. amy: frank, can you talk about the law that north carolina past six years ago prohibiting stat

questions about people want to invest in coal and so forth you know the coal that's be mined becomes more valuable it's very difficult to bring on production now it's very difficult to get investment for production and the type of investors that tend to come in want return on their on their investment very quickly which is limited cap ex suspended teachers and made it difficult for demand supply always reach where demand wants it to be and jim given that you say you know prices have been relatively high for a couple years now are we seeing. major investments in coal that maybe just a few years ago of people would have been shocked by. no to tell you the truth that's the that's the real story the story is that there hardly is a story despite two years of elevated prices both thermal and metallurgical coal you really have not seen investment come into the sector significantly to to lift production and try to take advantage of those high prices nor have you seen the larger mining houses really try to ramp up production so as a result what you've kind of reached is coal being in somethin

the coal companies are evil or god put coal in the ground for us to use. both of those are examples of ideology. we can't really argue with those in a rational way and yet those are motivations for going forward and whatever action we take. as sam he was said to me were all ideologues and as this issue becomes more and more important to us we are going to encounter more and more extremists on both sides and that's why we have to work together we have to say all right, this is my ideology and this is yours. let's try to be in the middle otherwise if we just get more and more balkanized we are going to have even less hope. at addressing this addressing this very pressing problem just a bubble with all of your eco- friends. you try to check yourself whether its not participate in certain phone calls or what you do to make sure that you're not in an echo chamber they are not my spaces to be. i think just back to myself two years ago i personally am not compelled by the same talking points that her own movement put out there. and just remembering that what actu

now that strengthened them all in their conviction that coal mining must stop. it's early september just a few weeks before our w.-e. plans to clear the forest here. until coulter says on her way to the activists she regularly brings them supplies i know. today she's brought them some past to share among themselves issues just pick the fruit so it should be edible for a while getting fresh food can be a problem for the tree house dwellers. some of the occupiers are masked so they won't be recognized their resistance borders on illegality as r. w. we actually owns the land. the first of the moved into the forest nearly six years ago some live here all year round. the clock like if we want to reach our climate targets we need forests they produce oxygen coal fired power stations don't get this of course i don't know if it's too ambitious for me to say i want to save this planet. but i do want future generations to be able to see trees for instance. and. the activists come from all over germany in contrast and played in forest as a child. it can have any of that wh

in fact germany has already decided to phase out climate damaging coal fired power plants a coal exit commission set up by the government is discussing methods and a time table cortices representing local people who are affected there demanding a stop to land clearing until results are announced. september the thirteenth nine am three thousand five hundred police officers move in the legal grounds cited for the eviction the treehouses don't conform to building regulations . it's even sure a question there are serious violations of the law here the treehouses do not provide emergency access they were built in contravention of fire regulations. if you do not leave them of your own accord within the next thirty minutes and refrain from using them. i will carry out your a vixen with immediate force on the tree house dwellers were said to be risking life and limb because of fire hazards. one for fire hazards it's raining my friends it's raining. soon a human chain is formed between the police and the activists others lie down on the path. that you like and these people are peace don't use

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taking actions that will help both coal exports and more importantly to the industry. perhaps. extend the life of domestic power plants if and when that happens i think you can really judge how effective the administration has been in helping coal until that happens i think it's it's an open question jim we sure appreciate you being with us hope you'll come back sometime able to talk about that plan as it gets a little closer to any implementation jim thompson the executive director of call and i just market thanks jim take care. thank you enjoyed it. with hundreds of millions of people on the planet in need of clothing so my big brands have been doing something seemingly unthinkable with excess garments burning them for more we go to our to correspond to trinity travelers who joins us from fifth avenue in manhattan here's trinity that's happening home to some of the world's most iconic and luxury fashion brands from luxury shoot. down to get him back you name it they've probably got it but what all the merchandise that doesn't get sold in stores well we're here to answer that

coal four of to make enough money to pay for those roads. department stores have turned into something like dinosaurs now all around the world certainly shopping in cash and powerful for what is next what will those new merged department stores look like. well it's likely that they will look very differently in three years' time it's also likely that they will not keep their names you know monica the first thing that you would notice if you went into one of those department stores is that because to move base is relatively old retail experts have found out that many of the young people here in germany don't even know the brand names of color for or car start so of course the retailers have to do a lot in order to become more appealing to the younger crowd they have to create a shopping experience that's from and not vintage oh right well good luck with that . enjoy your shopping spree now. the passengers are europe's largest budget carrier ryan air will once again have to brace themselves for strikes the airlines pilots and cabin crew in ger

s coal capacity and coal emissions and they also told us that because there's been this uptake of renewable energy that hasn't resulted in coal being used and so germany is ending up exporting more electricity to its neighboring countries and it imports and climate at. and others argue well if it's doing that then it doesn't actually need to burn coal that old to produce power so we have on the one hand the push for new renewable zz but on the other what people say is an addiction to coal but we have to keep in mind that coal is cheap so maybe this is why germany break it off what does this all mean what you've just been reporting right now for the efforts to phase out coal is that still realistic will it's probably going to take longer then people will then basically it seems like it's quite a way off there is a cult commission that's being set up at the moment and that's been set up to advise the government on a phase out there are reports it could really release recommendations for a timeline by the end of this year we just have to wait and see what it recommends to jared reed thank you

as all coal plants in the u.s. combined satellite images reveal construction is underway at hundreds of power plants across china that's the spy the government saying operations at those sites were suspended last year environmental group coal swarm says the plants could increase china's overall coal power by twenty five percent lowering levy if that is one of the report's authors and the senior analyst for the global air pollution unit at greenpeace he says china is using the construction of coal power plants to boost its economy it's definitely a very conflicting picture china continues remarkable development between energy at the same time there is already massive being overcapacity in coal fired power plants china already has many more plants that it needs many local governments and companies have gone to new ute to build new ones even though the central government has been trying to discourage them. and ordering them to stop trying to spin trying to move to a new economy model that relies less on investment and

we repaid president obama's coal moratorium.e ended the role that was killing you, it sounds so beautiful -- the epa's so-called "clean power plan." it was a killer. it was costing this country a fortune. a killer. it had such a nice name, such a nice title. it was putting everybody out of business and it took away our strength, our wealth. from the job killing, a very, very expensive paris climate accord. a killer. [applause] president trump: these are killers. they were putting our country out of business. we have ended the war on beautiful, clean coal. [applause] president trump: in just the last year, our coal exports have skyrocketed, exports to other countries, but 60, 60%, can you believe that? the united states is now the number one energy producer in the world, and that just happened recently. [applause] a lot of money in the back. we are fixing the one-sided trade deals that had stolen american jobs, there was a massive transfer of wealth out of our country and we are bringing it all back. there are all coming back. [a

now i could stand up here and talk about coal for a half an hour. couldn't do as good a job as he just did. because seriously, he's in the business. he knows. he said you know, we were dead. and now we're a vibrant -- really a vibrant industry again. another industry that's vibrant, affects you a little less but affects everybody, the steel industry is coming back like i've never seen because of what we've done. [applause] we've done -- with all the dumping, they're not doing so much dumping anymore. but the steel industries are coming back. when they do dump, they're paying a lot of money on their dumped steel they're sending and it goes right into the coffers of our country. and that's ok. but u.s. steel is opening up eight plants. nucor and others are opening up plants. some spending close to $1 billion on a brand new plant. the steel industry is one of the great things to be talking about. so the manufacturing jobs are back. they're coming back and coming back at levels. economic growth last quarter 4.2. new unemployment claims hit a 49-year low

we can tell from the bird's eye view that the coal ash basins are stable and containing the coal ash.r: while there is the belief by duke energy that the coal ash is not released into the water in this area, they do say another byproduct of coal production has. they are tiny byproducts of the coal combustion process that have a similar consistency to sand. i touched the product myself and was assured that it could do no harm to me and that in their experience this is not in any sort of way a danger to the environment in this area, ana. >>> america's most feared and violent street gang is making headlines again with a series of killings on the east coast. on tomorrow's season premier of "this is life," lisa embeds with groups on the front line trying to combat this deadly gang resurgence. >> so when de maris was brought here, there were people waiting for her? >> yeah, when she arrived there was ten members of a local ms-13 clique. >> do you think all ten knew they would be killed that day? >> some people were less involved, they thought they were coming here to rough her up. but i don

on a peak day, this plant over railcars full of coal.nd what is left over when they burn it is this toxic coal ash. now, if f you had all o of these millions of tons of a toxic bstance anand you just dug a raw gash in the ground a and dumpedt inin there, you would be behavig recklessly. that is what they are doing. this is a crime scene. amy: that is vice president how gore speaking outside the duke energy plant with you, reverend barber. that was before the storm. duke energy now says at least 2000 cubic yards of coal ash were released amidst tropical depression florence's massive flooding in north carolina, enough ash to fill something like 180 dump trucks. as we wrap up, what this means? >> one of those areas is in goldsboro, one of the sites that was already leaking that t peope have been fighting. and they tell us all the time, the coal ash is not wisdom. we say, then white is an in the rich committed is, the cocommunitities of the politici? it is poisonous.s. it was alrlready leaking. it was are ready broken. it was are ready must

coal fleet environmental group coal swarm analyzed satellite images of the one hundred coal power plants that the chinese government said it suspended in january last year their findings show there is ongoing construction in many of these sites across the country when complete these stations will increase china's overall coal power by twenty five percent the new findings contradict beijing's pledge to tackle climate change it was already a surge in new coal projects between twenty fourteen and twenty sixteen. as part of its commitment to the two thousand and fifteen paris climate change agreement china vowed to begin reducing its emissions no later than twenty thirty this report comes just ahead of the one planet summit on the sidelines of the un general assembly an initiative of french president emmanuel mccrone and i speak now to laurie milli virtue in helsinki on skype he is one of the report's authors and a senior analyst for the global air pollution unit greenpeace thanks very much for being with us so how do we square the findings of this report with the chinese government's stated

in fact germany has already decided to phase out climate damaging coal fired power plants a coal exit commission set up by the government is discussing methods and a time table courters has representing local people who are affected there demanding a stop to land clearing until results are announced. september thirteenth nine am three thousand five hundred police officers move in the legal grounds cited for the eviction the treehouses don't conform to building regulations . it's making sure that there are serious violations of the law here the treehouses do not provide emergency access they were built in contravention of fire regulations. if you do not leave them of your own accord within the next thirty minutes and refrain from using them. i will carry out your a vixen with immediate force on the tree house to as was said to be risking life and limb because of fire hazards. i'm sure fire has it it's raining my friends it's raining. but soon a human chain is formed between the police and the activists others lying down on the path. that you know i didn't think these people are peace d

environmentalists fear coal ash is entering cape fear river.plant home to two inactive coal basins says that's probably not the case, at least not yet. that's the problem we are facing. at this point we don't understand the full extent of danger the people of wilmington are in. so it was thursday when the waters of the cape fear river first flooded into a cooling lake on this natural gas plant's property which was formerly a coal burning power plant. friday we first learned of the breach of the dam, several breaches. the video we can show you of the power plant was taken before the dam was breached. now the question is how long will it take for the coal ash basin to begin flooding into the cooling lake as well. duke energy says there's no visible sign of coal ash in the cooling lake. we have seen helicopters overhead all morning long, monitoring the site. they say there are water samples being taken. they'll take days before they're back. again, at this time duke energy says there's no visible coal ash in the cooling lake, but again, this is su

state arguing state leaders have a bias against coal and rejection of the coal terminal violates thee clause is talking about constitution and rule of law. you cannot discriminate against top commodities. one state cannot discriminate against another state's commodities in this way. >> reporter: the the state of washington ecology department would not issue a water permits. environmental impact report cited increased train traffic which would lead to more toxic diesel emissions and a small uptick in cancer cases was washington state sued the trump administration 31 times including several over environmental policy and democratic governor jay uniquely makes no secret about his disdain for the coal industry. >> we are breathing smoke from mississippi, the rest of the united states. united states. we have an interest in reducing coal smoke from all over the united states. >> reporter: the lawsuitthe agat washington state alleges public officials are using regulatory power to set economic and foreignn policy for the united states as a whole, something only the congress and president can

coal ash is a byproduct of coal crning that contains toxi metals like mercury and arsenic. for decades, it's usually been stored in open-air pits filled with water, though duke energy says the goldsboro site is covered by forestland. but the heavy flooding has environmentalists worried about other duke energy coal ash sites. dad there are other hazards: the flooding breache at more than 40 lagoons on hog farms, spilling pig waste into floodwaters. also in those waters: the carcasses of millions of chickens, turkeys, hogs and wild animals killed by the storm. will hendrick is a staff attorney for waterkeeper alliance, a group conducting aerial surveys in the carolinas to identify contaminated sites after florence. he joins me now via skype from chapel hill, north carolina. mr. hendrick, thanks for joining us. what iyour assessment of th current public health threat from the waters in the floodow area right? >> well, it's dark. it's a significant threat and sadly one that wilcontinue to increase as flood waters continue to rise. hhere are a number of sources of pollution, som

your coal mines and miners, they are working, and they will kill west virginia coal, that is a guaranteeey want to turn our federal courts into the political arm of the democrat resistance, you see it, you see it. [booing] joe manchin voted no on task cuts for american families, he voted no, what you going to say? he voted no on removing obama's job killing regulations. by the way, we have cut more regulations, that's why you have all of these jobs, record-setting jobs, more regulations than any president ever in the history of our country. that is pretty good. [cheering and applause] and we haven't been there for two years. but, time is flying, isn't it? time is flying. we have cut more than any administration, whether it was four years, eight years or in one case, much more than that. joe also voted no on repealing and replacing obamacare which it almost had done, that i will be nice now, we can get a single democrat vote. but if we did, we would have killed it and we would've had great health care. but we are giving you great health care anyway. if you look at the plans we are coming

oil and gas peak investment in infrastructure in coal oil and gas by two thousand and twenty invest in energy efficiency less methane let's h.f. season f. gases more electrification of vehicles. all of these things across the board can be done and frankly the whole human after policy process pulled together the paris agreement is set up to do that we just need to do much more of it much more aggressively so that we don't create future mccain florence's kevin if there is still wiggle room to decide and think to fix the situation but then again when you look at the vital signs of the planet the carbon emissions global temperature of the arctic ice minimum and the ice sheets on the sea level they're not good at all that indicative of a cataclysmic transformation yet to happen so how can we handle this situation in particular. well in addition to the need to address the underlying cause of the fall another six say confound on the mission the tanakh sun and other greenhouse gases. and the see if there are effects on the climate we have to recognize that climate change is already with us

so humans first used only would then wood and coal and wood coal and oil.the term energy transformation sounds like some kind of natural evolutionary process and in reality such a development would be a radical step there's never been anything like it. in the one possible approach could be to make environmental protection more profitable seem. to match the only. release it's a strategy how the us america has been following for twenty years. in one thousand nine hundred five he founded forest finance a company that develops and distributes sustainable forest products sixty. my nephrologist and my experience over the past forty years has shown that you can either save forests nor the world through charity projects alone you need to introduce a different economic system. it's not about different financing it's about a new collective approach to economic activity that doesn't destroy the bases of our wealth namely nature and humankind the forest has done a lot for humankind over the millennia but people just take it for granted and don't pay anything for it ser

states coal output and environmental groups analyze satellite images of the one hundred coal power plants that the chinese government said it had suspended and january last year their findings show there's been construction within these sites across the country these stations could increase china's overall coal power by twenty five percent or a million vets is one of the reports office and a senior analyst for the global pollution unit at greenpeace he says china is using the construction of coal power plants to boost its economy. it's tiffany a very conflicting picture jonah continues remarkable development in clean energy at the same time there is already messy existing overcapacity in coal tar ball lands china already has many more plants that it needs many local governments and companies have dean used to build new ones even though the central government has been trying to discourage them. and ordering them to stop trying to spin trying to move to your new economy model that relies less on investment and construction projects to stimulate the economy but that has proved very hard so t

vee utility is watching a flooded lake near l coal ash dumps at the site. we'll take a longer look at the environmental damage fromte florence, in the program. today marked one year since hurricane maria struck puerto rico. it's estimated that nearly 3,000 people died from the storm and its effects in the months that followed. the hurricane devastated the u.s. territory of three million people, destroying hundreds of homes and wiping out the power grid. one year later, power has been restored. but many homes look the same as the day after the storm hit. the latest summit of the koreas has concluded, and the north's kim jong un sent word that he's eager to resume talks on denuclearization, with the u.s. that's according to south korea's president moon jae-in. the two leaders and their wives visited a legendary volcano in north korea today. afterward, moon returned to seoul and conveyed kim's message. >> ( translated ): he said he hoped secretary of state mike pompeo would visit north korea soon, and also that a second summit with trump would take place in th

miners here extracted some nine hundred thousand tonnes of coal per year and the mine closed in one thousand nine hundred seventy three but its legacy lives on as a popular tourist attraction. if you would in the nineteenth century when france began to industrialise it was the city of santa t.m. which was the first to supply cone and thus made the great transformation of the industrial age possible suntan composed to being one of the first french and european industrial cities and even today coal is still an important part of the spirits of the inhabitants of such. scented hands industrial boom led to the creation of the largest housing and cultural complex designed by swiss french architect look. at the site in fear many was planned in the one nine hundred fifty s. to solve a housing shortage the idea was to create a village where the people had everything they needed in close proximity. so in the fifty's we had a new mayor called introduced pitchy and he would like to hold depletion pulled in because we didn't have enough light inside to see and the people used to live in all four

tell them what you said about the coal industry, do you mind?if given an order, i guess you obey. what i said is, you know, for eight years the coal industry absolutely had the boot of government on its throat. and many, many jobs were lost and many towns were destroyed by this, it was just a horrible thing, horrible suffering that happened in this country really for made-up reasons, i think. and what your administration has done is bring us back to life. jobs have been -- [applause] >> jobs have been created, families now have opportunity to provide for themselves and have a great future in education and small towns in north dakota and other places survive because they have a great coal mine, a great power plant and it is what america is about. it is great to see that we again, care about those things. thank you, mr. president. >> president trump: thank you very much. [applause] >> president trump: that's so nice. now i could stand up here and talk about coal for a half an hour and i couldn't do as good a job as he just did because seriously, h

the lake of the coal ash dumps and the coal ash landfill is near together. coal ash is dangerous. the lake and the fish and the humans who go there let alone the adjacent river. well, today flood waters breached the dam at sutton lake. lake water then flooded one of the three large coal ash dumps that lines the lakeshore. duke energy, which owns that plant says they don't believe the breach, quote, poses a significant threat to nearby communities. but they say, quote, they cannot reel out coal ash has escaped from the flooded dump and now is washing into the river. open question. this was shot by the water keeper alliance. they tell us based on their decades of experience in the region that this appears to be coal ash pouring into the cape fear river in north carolina. coal ash is toxic not just to people but to all life forms and they were able to rescue that baby turtle. here on the way to downtown wilmington you can actually see this oily film on the water. it's floating down north carolina, towards the banks of wilmington, north carolina, which is about 9 miles away. i do not

thermal coal companies that derived a majority of their coal. sfers currently has direct investments in two companies which is listed in the board memo that amounts to a little over $1 million of net exposure. and then, we are also recommending the removal of one company from our restricted list that has filed from bankruptcy and since been taken private. >> okay. great. thank you very much. why don't we call for -- excuse me. call for public comment. are there any members of the public that would like to address the commission regarding specifically thermal coal? seeing none, we'll close public comment. i have a question or a request. so as we -- i mentioned the performance and the tracking. i would ask that you go back, and you think about what is the best way to track our gains or losses for these companies from the point in time where we divested, and is it -- you know, what would be our gains or losses to date based upon when you present to us and, you know, obviously you're going to have to make some assumptions about what is the appropria

they say there's no visible sign of coal ash in the waters. a birds eye view for herself. >> i had an opportunity today to go up into one of the aerial inspections by helicopter. we can tell by that kind of birds eye view that the ash basin dams here remain well protected. they are stable. and they are containing the coal ash. >> reporter: while duke energy doesn't believe this industrial waste has gotten into the water, what has environmentalists particularly concerned is that duke energy does say another byproduct of coal combustion has. that's what they call cinespheres tiny bead-like metal particles not easily distinguished from sand. biologists say if these get into the water, they believe coal ash could too. that power plant, ana, on the banks of the cape fear river, the place where raw water is taken in to be turned into drinking water for this area, that plant is 20 miles upstream from the power plant. so the cape fear river utility authority is saying that no matter what happens, at that power plant the drinking water is safe and will