four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. was a set up to protect the. and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of this persons and the e.p.a. says you've got to cut back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same amount. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the decisions that are a series of trade offs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released who are the head of the d.n.c. so if you say i would either. they employ limited use of

use a tremendous amount of dispersants and the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make the decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released who are the head of the t.s.a. so if you say i would to either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from day one ms jackson forget about cleanup forget about a natural resource to average just for rele

on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved use carex it under the surface of the water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons of corrected a day into the coal when they decided to do the subsurface injection the use of robotic arms to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the gulf that it never did for. four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. is a set up to protect the. and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount. this person's who e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineerin

in her correspondence with the e.p.a. head and guess what happens next after the dust is eleven months of interference the e.p.a. magically issued for exemption to uranium energy they could now mind and go lead a few days later she emailed the e.p.a. bigwigs who machines all friendly with to say thanks again for your leadership we greatly appreciate all the time you invested in this project and hope it's the start of a closer working relationship between the industry and the agency. so if you think the people who call the shots in the us are people who care about the people of goalie in texas or drinking water or planet earth in general think again the people calling the shots are the people who can pay four hundred thousand dollars to a lobbyist in washington tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter at the resident. and all right and that does it for now for more on the stories we covered go to youtube dot com slash r.t. america for the latest and greatest information coming out of all the stories we cove

the e.p.a. and look forward to joining the senator from massachusetts in joining her. with that, mr. president, i yield the floor. ms. warren: mr. president? the presiding officer: the senior senator from massachusetts is recognized. ms. warren: thank you. i want to start by thanking the senior senator from virginia. both for advancing a nomination that we will vote on this afternoon and for your comments about gina mccarthy. she is, as you say, a quite remarkable person, and she will be a wonderful director of the environmental protection agency, and i very much appreciate your comments about her. and i know ms. mccarthy does as well and the people of massachusetts do as well. thank you. i rise today, mr. president, to do something very simple. i ask my colleagues to give a simple vote to the president's nominee to head the environmental protection agency. this is not fancy or ambitious. it's just a basic principle of good government in our constitutional system. when the founders of our republ

the e.p.a. should not be able to define and expand its regulatory jurisdiction in this case under the clean water act without undertaking a formal rule-making process that provides everyone, individuals, businesses, other stakeholders, the opportunity to give meaningful input. the clean water act authorizes e.p.a. to regulate the discharge of pollutants into -- quote -- "navigable waters." again, that is a very clear term, "and a halfabland a "navi" the act defines it as "the waters of the united states including the territorial seas." now, the trouble is clearly understanding what constitutes -- quote -- "the waters of the united states." for decades courts have considered the meaning of waters of the u.s. and yet uncertainty still remains. recently in 2006 -- about seven years ago in a rapanas decision -- the supreme court considered heath the army corps of engineers properly determined wet lands in michigan as being in -- quote -- "waters of the united states." now, although the court determi

they've said it about the e.p.a. at least. they've said iter many, many times, and they've introduced amendments to try to strip existing powers from the e.p.a. with the department of labor they won't say it, but obviously they don't want them enforcing wage standards and workplace standards and stuff like that. that's against what the republican party is for. this stuff is really, really criminal, and well, it's just, you know, they say that gina% mccarthy hasn't answered the questions they put to her. they put more than 1,000 questions to her, more than 1,000, 653 from david bitter of louisiana alone. that's just crazy but it's -- i don't know what obama can do about it. >> it's going to be tough probably will happen, these things usually slow down. i can think of a few questions i'd like to ask david bitter. michael tomasky special correspondent for newsweek and the daily beast thanks for being here. >> we turn now to a possible break through at the white house. democratic from north carolina told reporters that there was a

employees which surprises yet it speaks to that revolving door so these former e.p.a. employees are helping determine exactly what wal-mart's policy should be moving forward and to get them out of a germ perhaps. correspond emirates producer rachel carson yes and prime interest producer bob english and you guys for joining me glad to be here. well when you drop your children off a school each day you expect them to gain the knowledge that they need to survive in society and live up to their civic duties but that's what we pay teachers for after all isn't it well one the illinois high school instructor is actually being disciplined for teaching students about their constitutional rights the residence or harshness takes us back to school. high school teacher john dryden if facing discipline from his school board in illinois for daring to teach kids about their fifth amendment rights can you believe the audacity here's what happened dryden went to his mailbox at the school to find a stack of survey forms for his kids he wasn't told whether or not the survey with mandatory

employees which surprises yet it speaks to that revolving door so these former e.p.a. employees are helping determine exactly what wal-mart's policy should be moving forward and to get them out of a g.m. perhaps. correspond emirates our producer rachel courteous and prime interest producer bob english thank you guys for joining me ok glad to be here well imagine there's no poverty it's easy if you try but i'm not talking about the beatles legend john john lennon's one nine hundred seventy one hit song a growing group of academics say that the solution to poverty is simple get rid of country borders paul nyack is a grad student who founded open borders dot info and he says a global open border movement would cost nothing and improve the lives of millions of people and boost the world's g.d.p. but is this really a simple as just opening the borders or should we really look realistically go along with this plan and can we expect other countries to screen a same quest reports as congress debates immigration reform there's one proposal you won't hear on capitol hill what if

she is not mitt romney's nominee for the e.p.a., she is not rick perry's nominee for the e.p.a.she is barack obama's nomination for the e.p.a. it is her position as it is the president's that we should enforce the clean air act, the safe drinking water act and so on. when the president's put up nominees for e.p.a. that i didn't agree with, i didn't filibuster them. i said okay, i'll vote no. let them -- let them go. so it's -- it's really a sad day for me on the environment side of my committee. on the public works side of my committee, it's a good day because we're making progress. we have now about a half dozen amendments that have been cleared on both sides. we're waiting to try and make them pending or clear them, and we're asking all senators please get your amendments in because this can't go on forever. we need to pass this bill. 550,000 jobs are supported by this legislation. hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of businesses are looking forward to our doing this. that's why we have this amazing array of support. so with that, i would say to senator merkley the floor is yo

pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity to twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither pack not attacked they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in the trial the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared.

usually supreme court nominees come and the court which ultimately decides things like labor laws an e.p.a. laws it's in the hands of a one vote republican majority which would become a democratic majority if the republicans in the senate would allow obama's nominees to be confirmed but for four years they haven't let it happen then there are the hundreds of bills that republicans have blocked since obama took office in two thousand and eight just last year republicans blocked bills to increase the federal minimum wage put transparency back into politics set a minimum tax on millionaires and billionaires prohibit discrimination in the workplace protect the equal rights of the disabled and to ensure that women receive equal pay for equal work. it despite all of the blocked appointments and all of the filibuster legislation president obama still says he's intent on working with republicans president apparently still believes he can reach a so-called grand budget bargain with republicans despite their absolute refusal to raise taxes on the wealthiest americans who are sometimes paying the low

pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration on. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in the trial the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. t

issues and disputes against federal agencies they get to decide cases about regulatory bodies like the e.p.a. in the labor department another reason the d.c. circuit is so important is that many of its judges go on to serve in the supreme court for. the current members of the supreme court first served on the d.c. circuit ginsburg roberts scalia and thomas because the d.c. court had four vacancies and even with a four to three majority until just this week it has also been at the center of a battle between the president and the republicans over executive appointments republicans have filibustered obama's nominees to keep the conservative majority on the d.c. court although they had no problem with george w. bush appointing four judges who all breezed through the senate by the republican judges on the d.c. circuit have declared war on obama in january they threw out the president's recess appointment of three national labor relations board nominees accusing him of exceeding his executive power which is particularly ironic since the president was forced to use his recess appointment power in t

guess they didn't hear about the coalition of beekeepers and agriculture advocates who just sued the e.p.a. over inadequate toxicity evaluation or maybe they do know all about the evidence and just don't want to ban the pesticides anyway do you see the need to get annoyed named in the lawsuits are manufactured by bayer and syngenta bayer has thirty two lobbyists in washington alone and fourteen of them previously have government jobs and sixteen out of syngenta twenty eight lobbyists held government jobs two combined they spent over seven million bucks buying politicians in washington last year so guess what honeybees farmers and people who like all of the lots of fresh fruit chances are no nic it's a noise aren't going anywhere anytime soon at least not in america tenses are you could be screwed and we could all be facing of the mageddon sometimes very. tonight let's talk about that by following me on twitter as the resident. well we've all heard one or two skydiving horror stories in our day most of them happen while a private company takes a taurus for a jump but unbelievable video was

manager who made the decisions that led to these deaths in texas who lied to or failed to let the e.p.a. and other agencies know that they were violating their rules we have no idea who's been arrested for these deaths nobody so how is it that bangladesh a third world nation can seize the assets of those responsible for the tragic factory collapse and bring them to court in just five days while here in the united states we're still waiting for someone to be held accountable for the west disaster it may be because bangladesh despite overwhelming poverty understands the fact that misbehaving corporations and people in power must be held accountable for their actions their negligence can't go overlooked but here in the united states it's an entirely different story here in the united states we have basically two different justice systems is one for corporate executives and rich people one for everyone else. here in the united states we hold people like aaron schwartz and bradley manning accountable for their actions but let people like j.p. morgan's jamie diamond and goldman sachs's lloyd

and has fallen under the scrutiny of hazard material companies it's found under the scrutiny of the e.p.a. among the linda thank you so much for your reporting and please keep us updated as the story develops. well it has been a bad few months for american media perhaps no one knows that better than c.b.s. news anchor scott pelley in a speech he delivered at quinnipiac university in connecticut pelley admitted to the role that he played in the race to be first the first news organization to report a breaking news story he also admitted that many times he has gotten it wrong lesson during or coverage of newtown. i sat on my shirt and i reported that nancy lanza was a teacher at the school and that her son had attacked her classroom it's a hell of a story but it was dead wrong from the newtown shooting to the boston bombing time and again the media has chosen speed over accuracy and time and again there are ports have missed the mark it's a problem scott pelley attributed to overzealous media wanting to get the scoop first. how does it serve the public if we are first. you know what first i

is where cases like e.p.a. case and basically any of the federal agencies are decided there and right now you've got four republican appointees and three democratic appointees and three empty seats and so the republicans are running the first circuit court and so they keep knocking down labor laws they could knock down environmental laws president obama had an appointee for that court for two years the guy finally withdrew about what three four weeks ago i mean kay what are what what is the deal here at what point do the republicans back down or back down is maybe even the wrong phrase at what point do they do what the constitution asks them to do and advise good set. judicial nominees i mean i agree with you i have to wonder if this couldn't be an intentional strategy to say you know there's a lot of work that needs to be done in the. and as long as those feet aren't being held you know they can't handle the case that they might otherwise be able to handle and i have to wonder if this isn't a strategy to make

meanwhile the e.p.a. effectively or expressly denied c.e.i.'s request for fee waivers in 14 of its 15 requests. 14 of its 15 requests. that's 93% of the time versus basically the alternative here which is what they did with these other groups. all a chain in a pattern of behavior that i think is not anything any of us want to see and something i don't think we're going to, quite frankly, i suspect you won't see a member of congress come to the floor of either chamber and say this is acceptable behavior. this is not just about a handful of people in the i.r.s., cincinnati office or somewhere else doing something wrong. this is much deeper than that. i talked about it yesterday. i'll repeat it today. that is a sense that this administration has pursued a real culture of intimidation in the political process both through the way it ran its campaign. but i want to take it one step further. what this really should remind us of is the dangers of government power. let me stop there and remind you we need government. i don't know any anarchist that ser

in fact, the headline says e.p.a.ives information for ree to groups it agrees with 92% of the time, but it denies fee waivers for groups that it disagrees with 93% of the time. we cannot afford a government that systematically goes against groups that it opposes and yet rewards groups that it favors. i want to give you another example that came about yesterday. more than 573,000 birds are killed by the country's wind farms each year, including 83,000 hunting birds such as hawks, falcons and eagles. now, nearly all the birds being killed are protected under the federal environmental laws which prosecutors are used to generate tens of millions of dollars of fines and settlements from businesses, including oil and gas companies , electricity generators over the past five years. as a matter of fact, b.p. oil company was fined $100 million for killing and harming migratory birds during the 2010 gulf oil spill, and pacific corp, which operates coal plants in wyoming, paid more an $10.5 million in 2009 for electrocuting a nu

and it's fallen under the scrutiny of hazard material companies it's found under the scrutiny of the e.p.a. among the landau thank you so much for your reporting and please keep us updated as the story develops. well a mother's day celebration parade in new orleans turned into chaos over the weekend when three suspected gunmen opened fire on a crowd of spectators nineteen people were injured including two children the shooting happened in the seventh ward a neighborhood in an area that is actually described as a mix of low and middle income families the f.b.i. says that this shows a flaring up of street violence in the city and police are now hunting for the people responsible for this crime they have released numerous pictures and are asking the public to help identify these suspects our senior national correspondent marina has the latest. well so far they have been no arrests announced but we do know that the new orleans police department has released grainy surveillance video they released that early monday morning showing a possible suspect in connection to the mother's day parade shoo

the e.p.a.'s unusual 1,320 gallon regulatory threshold under the spcc rule is not a normal tank size for agriculture. that may be normal in other contexts, but not in agriculture. a 1,000-gallon size is much more common and raising the threshold to 10,000 gallons in aggregate is a much more reasonable level for farmers and ranchers all over the country. so my amendment would allow most arkansas farms, most farms in oklahoma, in fact most farms throughout the country, to use the aggregate storage capacity between 10,000 and 42,000 gallons to self-certify rather than going through the expense and the time of hiring a professional engineer. i look forward to working with the bill managers on this amendment, and i also have another amendment -- i no he that these amendments are not -- they would be objected to right now if we brought up the amendments. this is amendment 801. but at the appropriate time, i would like to ask that it be made pending. who have-woulwhoever whoevermr.r yield? i think someo

havely been -- e.p.a. have regularly been charged. the e.p.a. those waivers were warranted. >>steve: a week after being convicted of killing her ex-boyfriend jodi arias could be convicted today. she'll be in a courtroom where the jury will consider the death penalty or life in prison. she to*eld said in an -- she said in an exclusive interview that she wants to die. she is tweeting. she writes any donations to my family or me are made only to jodi arias is innocent.com. any other source asking for information is fraudulent. thank you and good luck. >>brian: do the ntsb is asking to drop the blood alcohol level down to .5. that means the average person weighing 150 pounds may be over the legal limit in one hour. people weighing less, only one drink. we asked you how you felt about this. brian says this -- no relation -- lowering the limit will have no effect as almost all o.v.i. related deaths are caused by those with a blood alcohol level over the .08 limit. by the way, mothers against drunk driving have not weighed in on this. >>gretchen: talk

question of e.p.a. hurting farmers. there has been some incensetivity in e.p.a. to agriculture but at the same time one of the most important things for the recreation counties in rural areas is strict enforcement of environmental standards. they depend on clean air, clean water for the lakes and rivers for fishing and boating and that sort of thing. and the third point that james made water in california. this is a real problem. the cost of water for agriculture is going up, up, up. and cities will always be able to out bid agriculture for it. a lot of the tent nts of trade we are going to go to the place where the come par or the advantage exist so we're going to import more from mexico than we grow in california or cspan.org or maryland. host: you were part of the study you went to high school reunions in rural counties and talked about changes they are seeing. were these same issues, immigration, e.p.a. and water issues key drivers you saw? guest: not in the areas we chose to study. more remote areas in the grate plains. actually all in many parts of the coun

me that we could have a hearing on the provisions that are in the law, the map 21 provisions that e.p.a. -- the presiding officer: the senate will come to order. mrs. boxer: 30 seconds more. mr. udall: i would ask for 30 seconds more. the presiding officer: without objection. mr. udall: madam chair, that you've committed that the relevant federal resource agencies, map 21, which has similar provisions here, they're in the law, the resource agencies can come before our committee, we can have questioning, you'll be there, we can have the c.e.q. or whoever be a part of that. and i very much appreciate with you -- appreciate you working with me on this. and because you're working with me on this, i'm not going to -- to move forward. i'm not going to off ther the amendment at this time. the presiding officer: the senator from california. mrs. boxer: i ask unanimous consent that i have a minute and a half. the presiding officer: without objection. mrs. boxer: thank you so much. i want to thank my colleague for withdrawing -- for not offering his amendment and i -- he and i see this very, very

when we look at -- just based on e.p.a. standards, our fleet is about 35%-40% more fuel efficient than the standard car on the road today. >> i would say the former car share member i drove around -- i wouldn't buy those car bus drie around in. is that true that for profit companies are looking to maximize their profit? >> what i would say is the data showed for profit and non-profit had a negative effect of redoesing co2 emissions or a positive effect for the environment. we did see that this effect was higher for the non-profits. i have another hypothesis for the dynamics of the fleet. i also think the pricing of how city car share prices have an impact. they do charge by mile. i think that has an impact on the total number of miles driven by a city car share vehicle. it is contained more inside the pricing of a for profit company. does that make sense? >> sure. for relay rides and theers models where people are using their own car, they may not be he cleanest or a hybrid. is there an incentive to be clean and green in th

it is outrageous that earlier this year the e.p.a. released a personal contact information of over 80,000 livestock and poultry owners from across the nation, including many from indiana. this blatant violation of privacy must not happen again, so i hope my colleagues will support the grassley-donnelly amendment when it comes up for a vote. put simply, this farm bill makes sense. it is an example of republicans and democrats working together to do good things for the american economy and america's people. i look forward to working with our colleagues in the house on a farm bill that we can get signed into law. no one is going to get 100% of what they want, but it is 100% necessary to get this farm bill done. i urge prompt passage of this bill by the senate and for our colleagues in the house to do the same. farmers in indiana and across our great nation deserve more than partisan political gridlock that prevented a five-year bill last year. this year, we need to get it done. mr. president, i yield the floor. i note the absence of a qu

he deserves an e.p.a. administrator. he made a bipartisan choice in gina. gina was brilliant when we had our hearing. enough already. please, it's time to have a vote up or down on gina mccarthy. now, we have a lot of things to do. i mentioned a few. how about the latest threat from the republicans? they're going to -- they decided they're not sure they're going to raise the debt ceiling, and so they now have a bill that they lay out who would get paid first when we default on our debt, and guess what, america, it's not you. it's china. before we pay america's business or american bondholders, we're going to pay china. i would yield the floor. mr. reid: mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i would ask my friend to yield for a unanimous consent request, and also with a request through the chair to my friend, when you finish your remarks, would you be willing to close the senate tonight? mrs. boxer: of course. mr. reid: great. mr. president? the presiding officer: the majority leader. mr. reid: i ask that the record not appear

house and senate version of a coal jobs protection act that could be really important in terms of e.p.a i have a list here of dozens of bills the house has proposed on jobs that are stalled in the senate. >> only counts if you wave it at me. >> well -- >> and highlighted. and highlighted which we know makes it official. so there is a lot of stuff going. on i know paul ryan has been working on budget negotiations. there's stuff going on. it might not be sexy. it might not be something we talk about in its minutiae every day. >> i appreciate the portion of the show where s.e. cupp defends government. i do. >> don't get used to it. >> i do appreciate that. what you're showing there with wills that go to the senate and then die, we already had a situation where it was very hard to get anything done. and the real problem is that each of these benghazi and irs and the a.p. issues are very polarizing and very divisive. so you need some good will to get any of these items passed through the house and through the senate. and these three issues are undermining what little tiny shred of good will

e.p.a. and i do yoga are not really about character or incompetence but the danger of big government itself. and former romney chief strategist stuart stevens writes in the daily beast all successful political leaders have one or two very simple fundamental beliefs upon which they build both their popularity and their policies for barack obama is the unshakable conviction that government can and must be a strong and benevolent force in our lives the benghazi i.r.s. and a.p. stories are like a multi-headed missile aimed at obama's fundamental believe that government is good and will make your life better now to begin with benghazi isn't a scandal of big government it's a tragedy that happened that shows their weaknesses in how we secure our diplomatic missions abroad and it needs to be dealt with all the other discussion about it though it stems from the g.o.p.'s obsession with trapping the obama administration and some sort of scandal house for the ira story well that's not a scandal of big