can you look into it e.p.a. should of. myself and another staff person we had prepared the letters and we were we were ready to write to the colorado oil and gas commission that we felt that this practice cause him in a substantial risk to public drinking water source and that e.p.a. was going to take over the investigation however soon as we got that to our political appointee supervisors they cancelled that investigation so e.p.a. did not investigate legitimate complaints from citizens in garfield county. if you lived in or in a rural residential area and you were in a low lying area your house was in a low lying area that could accumulate the gases when they come off the tank battery and so forth you may be breathing those for twelve hours a day one of the concerns of the agency with respect to the oil and gas industry is how much volatile organic carbon how much volatile gases come from the industry especially from storage of oil or storage of gas. last summer in an effort to track down how much volatile organic carbon

so until e.p.a. takes a more commonsense, transparent, open approach, we need to step on the brakes. and this bill just simply does that. it places a one-year moratorium on e.p.a. from using aerial surveillance. this will give the agency time to come clean about its activities nationwide and make the case that these flights are an appropriate use of agency authority and taxpayer money. unless the e.p.a. does that openly, the level of trust between farmers and ranchers and the e.p.a. will continue to erode. in the meantime, passage of this legislation will help provide our farmers and our ranchers and others in rural america with much-needed regulatory certainty. i offered an amendment on this issue during a recent farm bill debate. it got broad bipartisan support, 56 votes. ten of my colleagues on the other side of the aisle joined me in this effort. so it's not a partisan issue. i urge my colleagues to continue their support of this effort to bring accountability and transparency to the environmenta

the e.p.a.-mandated oil spill prevention control or spcc requires that oil storage facilities with a exassoy ty of 1,320 gallons make modifications to reduce the possibility of oil spills. it requires farmers to conduct a containment facility which must contain 110% of the fuel in the containers. these structures along with necessary inspections will cost tens of thousands of dollars. in some cases higher than $60,000 for a single farmer in my district. the program tates back to 1973 shortly after the clean water act was signed into law. in the last decade it has strictly come down on agriculture and the rules have been amended, delayed and, tended dozens of times, creating enormous confusion in the farming community. the e.p.a. failed to reach out to producers. the e.p.a. lifted a 2006 rule that suspended requirements with oil storage of 10,000 gallons or less. the rule applies to more than just fuel. it applies to hydraulic oil, crop oil, vegetable and even animal fat. last summer i headed up

>> all of our plants are in compliance with all of the e.p.a.egulations including all of the new ones except for a couple which we have already announced we will shut down and replace with a gas fire and power plant. our fleet is clean, up to date. it is modern technology. we just opened up a brand new facility in southwest virginia last week which may be one of the last built in the united states that is probably the cleanest plant in the united states. >> i think you have done a great job for people. congratulations. i know you came on in the height of the great recession. we are buying stock. everyone bought stock. it was terrific. you have done a fabulous job. thank you so much for coming on the show. >> jim, it was great to be here. >> what can i tell you? this is the kind of stock that when the market pulls back because of europe or whatever think about this one. it has been consistent the whole time and will remain consistent. . and inspires the things you choose to do. you do what you do... because it matters. at hp we don't just believe

now the e.p.a.employment prevention agency. [ applause ] these times call for new leadership to get this great country out of debt and back to work. and the choice is very clear. the status quo of the entitlement society versus a dynamic change to an opportunity society, that's what we need in america. [cheers and applause] we need a president who will say to a small business woman congratulations, we applaud your success. you did make that happen. you did build that in america. [ applause ] big government didn't build newark. you built america. small businesses don't come out of washington, d.c. premade on flat bed trucks. that coffee shop, that flores in virginia beach. that bakery in bradford, virginia, they were all built by american entrepreneurs with big dreams. not a big spending government with a wide open wallet full of other people's money. it is remarkable in 236 years of the american experiment what the engenius people of this magnificent nation can do when they are given the opportunity

. >> federal regulations have made it tougher to meet e.p.a. guidelines burning only coal.ice of natural gas has been dropping, and we're finding it in more and more places, setting up a tough battle between coal companies and the natural gas industry. when the new regulations are fully phased in, colorado utilities are going to burn a lot less coal, converting some plants to burning natural gas, shutting others down all together. >> we went in and reformed all the rules. >> colorado's former governor brokered a deal with the state's largest electricity producer. >> over time, the use of coal will depend a lot on what kind of research and development can lead to cleaner coal alternatives. if they're not there and they're not economical and they cant compete with gas or renewables, then they'll go away. >> suarez: the united states is in the midst of a gas revolution. more deposits are found with every passing year that can be drilled economically. right now, gas is really cheap to burn and cleaner than coal. >> so, by transitioning from coal to natural gas, you can reduce c

. >> the e.p.a. has made clear that they're working closely with the department of agriculture to keep an eye on yields. there is no question that the drought is very serious, and the president is committed to taking every step to help farmers and ranchers. >> reporter: still the u.s. agriculture secretary tried to temper concerns, saying americans won't see an immediate jump in food prices. >> tom: crop insurance should cover many farmers for their losses, losses that likely will be counted in the billions of dollars. diane eastabrook traveled to central illinois where insurance adjusters already have been driving from farm to farm looking at the damage. >> you don't have the height with the plant that you usually have. >> reporter: country financial claims adjuster steve worthington is appraising just how much damage the drought has caused the harms brothers corn crop. >> okay kevin and norman. we're gonna measure off 17.4 foot of row here, and then we want to harvest and shuck the ears off the pla

submitted a final rule on if the company can continue to pay fines and still sell engines that do not meet e.p.a. guidelines. the stock has been under pressure as it has been threatened with losing the ability to sell new engines that don't meet current emissions standards. the details of today's final rule filing were not discloses, but shares jumped 10%. an interim rule allowed navistart to continue with its sales if it paid a fine. all five of the most actively traded e.t.f.'s saw modest gains. the biggest for the russell 2,000 and nasdaq 100 track funds. and that's tonight's market focus. >> tom: the virtual world of the internet has changed businesses from newspapers to retail. but the real world of video games continues to favor established names and not new- comers. tonight's word on the street: gaming. debra borchardt is a markets analyst at thestreet.com. deborah, first of all explain the business differences between the digital gaming and traditional video games? >> well, a lot of the diblgital gamers, the way that they earn mon seputting advertising within the games or trying to get t

first list of the chemicals that were being used was this very very short and an interesting west that e.p.a. put together it certainly was in convery hands and we know we found out very rapidly that it was no small list they don't tell you everything that's in a product you may only get five percent of what's in that product and the rest of it is proprietary or they just don't get it they don't have to. boil and gas deposits below ground contain toxic compounds that are brought to the surface during drilling these compounds pollute the environment and can cause health problems but the impacts of drilling are made even worse by the chemical products that are injected during the process dr colborne has documented over two hundred products used in colorado drilling over ninety percent contained chemicals with adverse health effects. there is not only prove that there's anything harmful in the fracking fluids that are used to fracture the wells you know our flaws are not toxic and we did a lot of it as well. mis understanding of what is actually in the fluids i have fracking fluid taken right o

>> well, i think what the e.p.a.uge difference, a huge improvement. now we're at a point where to get any small incremental improvement, the costs are so extensive and then the e.p.a. continues to underestimate the costs, overestimate the benefits and the regulations that continue to come out, make it harder and more expensive to put people to work. these are good jobs. we need to be energy self-sufficient in this country. we need to have energy security. i look at it as energy security, economic growth as well as environmental stewardship. i think we can do all three of those. we've done it in wyoming for the entire history of our state, and we can continue to do that, but the president opposes the keystone excel pipeline, bringing energy from canada into the united states. we ought to be exploring some more energy off shore, on federal land and in alaska. and american energy. >> woodruff: what's the unemployment rate in your state? >> a little over 5 pjt. we have good jobs, energy jobs. we have one of the best-run

of social security and unemployment insurance stupid even people like richard nixon who created the e.p.a. kept tax kept taxes on the rich above seventy percent but those few blips aside conservatism whether it's under the name of the republican party or not has always been a force trying to drag our nation backwards in nearly every instance in history conservatives have sided with the rich and powerful over the middle class with the c.e.o. over the worker with the health insurer over the sick with the oil baron over the environment in fact one has to wonder why anyone given the history of conservatism in america would proudly call themselves a conservative or republican for that matter todd akin may be the latest crazy to go on to become a republican u.s. senator but he's certainly not the first and the way things are going he won't be the last here it is tonight's daily take but i don't want to talk about conservatism the political ideology that is touted by today's republican party by corporate america and even by some democrats according to a recent poll by the pew research center con

today, e.p.a. lists more than 80,000 chemicals in its inventory, many of which are in regular household products, products that our children are exposed to every day. and we see a young person here, a child getting a bottle. it's made of plastic, and we don't know really what's in there. i think we can all agree that a chemical that comes into contact with a child should be tested to see if it's safe. now many if not most chemicals in products are safe, but we know that some are not. there have been too many cases of toxic chemicals showing up in our everyday lives that have horrible health effects, and we found that out only after our families have been exposed. recently "the chicago tribune" exposed the latest example of untested chemicals wreaking havoc in o bodies. the tribune reported that flame retard ants are widespread in furniture, electronics, and other items throughout our houses, our homes. in fact, the average couch contains two pounds of chemical flame retardants. we see it here, a so

the e.p.a. the f.d.a. the a.t.f. the n.e.a. courtesy of the iran libertarian whack a doodle zx who support by corporate fat cats instead of our country being run by the will of we the people another platform is an end to the federal income tax courtesy of rich guys like the koch brothers mitt romney who want you and me to pay the entire cost of running our government and opposition to hate crimes laws courtesy the far right who want to demonize gays african-americans and latinos they have more stand your ground shoot first laws courtesy of gun sellers like wal-mart who want legal cover when one of their guns is used to murder a member of your family. they want to reject a rejection of multicultural teaching in our schools courtesy of those like pat buchanan who believe that only white european history has any significance they want the promotion of creationism over evolution in our schools courtesy again of the religious right who thinks the earth is only five thousand years old they want to outlaw pornography again courtesy of

they get sick through reconciliation republicans can virtually eliminate government agencies like the e.p.a. the u.s.d.a. and the f.d.a. that is sure the water we drink the air we breathe and the food we eat and the medicine we take are all safe to reconciliation republicans can slash taxes on the rich even below the historic lows they're at down while also raising taxes on middle and working class americans. and keep those taxes in place for the next ten years. they can slash taxes on corporations continue to give new tax subsidies to corporations like iran these bain capital that send thousands of american jobs overseas through reconciliation republicans can put even more burdens on american students who are already drowning under a trillion dollars of student loan debt by slashing pell grant spending and making college a luxury that only the rich can afford basically as grover norquist promised republicans can accomplish ninety eight percent of their corporatist agenda through reconciliation through only fifty one votes in the senate the only thing standing between the united states as w

radioactive waste management going to the department of energy and nuclear regulatory commission the e.p.a. welcome to both of you gentlemen thank you first of all was there anything in that the paul that was in error or not at all i mean this is a well we've set a precedent now with nuclear accidents that i think is going to remain with us we're certainly concerned about the future and certainly the future of residents in japan and and kevin the the it's been sixteen months now is the focus shima anywhere anything close to being out of the woods well just in. the last couple weeks there was a breakdown and the cooling system in the unit for pool for high level radioactive waste storage so the fear for many many months since the beginning of this catastrophe was that the unit for pool could suffer a catastrophic drain down of cooling water from a large earthquake but what was shown repeatedly now over the course of months is that simple breakdowns of the mechanics will start that pool to boiling and if it boils for long enough for a couple three days it's going to boil the cooling water do

and now the e.p.a. is the employment prevention agency. >> these times call for new leadership to get this great country out of debt and back to work, and the choice is very clear, the status quo of the entitlement society versus a dynamic change to an opportunity society. that's what we need in america. >> we need a president who will say to a small business woman congratulations, we applaud your success, you did make that happen. you did build that in america. the government didn't build america, you built america. small businesses don't come out of washington, d.c. premade on flat bed trucks. >> now we're going to discuss this speech a little bit because they are all chomping at the bit. the last time governor mcdonnell's hair moved was in 1982. when he said his great granddaughter was leading a platoon and he was proud of that, it's in the gop platform that they do not want women in combat. >> on the front line. >> and this guy's been responsible for the platform. this is governor transvaginal ultra

the health care proposal the dodd frank bills with regulation of the financial industries what is e.p.a. is doing to regulate every source of energy out there to as he said in his own words necessarily make energy more expensive to taking apart the health of the bipartisan health care program we have the most of these instances is the opposition where the rebel republicans have generally been on the opposite side of the president has been bipartisan remember the health care bill. passed on partisan lines only democrats supported it whereas republicans and democrats opposed it same with the health care repeal bill that was put forward recently i think there is certainly a lot of. liberals or or what would say that he is not so far left and has actually come i mean a lot of the things and provisions that he wanted within the health care bill it didn't quite go that far so what do you i mean i'm not out there saying well he's actually not that far left but there is no mistaking the roll call vote as a bipartisan opposition partisan passage all over doing a bit of a i do have a big i think