e.p.a.'s main operating count by $240 million and the air we breathe and the water we drink are endangered by the policy decisions that are being made in this bill. the consequences will be felt in communities across the nation. now, i understand from many cutting the e.p.a. is an easy target. but i want my colleagues to understand what this amendment would be cutting if adopted. this account funds programs that are important to both sides of the aisle, including permitting for construction projects across the country, toxic risk prevention and parts of the successful brown fields program and pesticide licenses. i understand the money would direct more funding to states in appalachia and appalachia is suffering, from raging environmental harm. unfortunately, i cannot support deeper cuts to the e.p.a. i oppose the amendment and reserve the balance of my time. the chair: the gentlewoman reserves. the gentleman from virginia is recognized. >> i yield to the chairman such time as he may coe de-si

e.p.a. where the e.p.a. imposed $75,000 cost per day on a couple for placing gravel on dry land to build a home within the existing subdivision. then there is andy johnson, the wyoming rancher who was facing $20 million in fines for his stock pond which the e.p.a. alleged violated the clean water act. this is despite the fact that stock ponds were exempt from federal law and that he had obtained the necessary permits. it took mr. johnson five months in court to reach a winning settlement which freed him from any obligation to pay the e.p.a. the waters of the united states rules, which i'm happy to see this administration working to roll back, embodied the perfectly as the obama e.p.a. pushed the limits of its power under the clean water act to even regulate some ponds and man-made ditches. per now for wasteful spending, there is environmental justice program, a program that is supposed to support business development in disadvantaged communities, which funded an effort to increase knowledge of environmentall

the e.p.a. from watershed esapeake implementation plans to hijack states' water quality strategies. over the last several years, the e.p.a. has implemented a total maximum daily load blueprint for six states which strictly limits the amount of nutrients that can enter the chesapeake bay. the e.p.a. has basically given every state in the watershed an ultimatum. either the state does what the e.p.a. says or faces a takeover of its water quality programs. congress intended that the implementation of the clean water act through which the states and the federal government work together. this process was not meant to be subject of the whims of politicians and bureaucrats in washington, d.c.,. my amendment ininstructs the e.p.a. to respect the important role states play in implementing the clean water act. i want to make it clear that my amendment would not stop the e.p.a. from working with the states to restore the chesapeake bay nor would it undermine the cleanup efforts under way. my language remove

chemical tonight will tell you the story on how a major chemical company duped the public begin duped the e.p.a. in order to keep their highly profitable toxin on the market in your body and later in the show a company with jared kushner formally head is the c.e.o. he was in charge of the company well now it's under fire for seeking the arrest of people who can't pay their rent in baltimore maryland so don't go anywhere america's lawyer stores now. in nine hundred sixty five dow agro sciences bought a pesticide called clear pyra photos brought to the market the pesticide became widely used on crops all over the world due to how effective it was it killing mosquitoes answered roaches and other insects that pose a threat to the global food supply fifty two years after it was first introduced the pesticide is used in more than one hundred countries around the globe on more than fifty different kinds of commercial crops if you live in the united states and you've eaten apples lettuce peaches oranges bananas or potatoes in the last fifty years chances are you've been eating food that's been sprayed

might have been tony on this is america's lawyer earlier this year the e.p.a. decided that they were not going to ban a commonly used pesticide called quote pirate for the pesticide had been a constant state of jeopardy with us for going to agencies for years in newly appointed to the eighteenth scott pruitt decided to end the discussion once and for all by saying that hey it's a good pesticide we're going to let it go there's a very good reason why this pesticide has been in limbo for so long scientific reports on the toxicity of this compound were showing that it had the potential to severely damage the brains of children and reports were shown that thousands of people across the globe were dying every year because of exposure to this chemical tonight we'll tell you the story on how a major chemical company duped the public again duped the e.p.a. in order to keep their highly profitable toxin on the market in your body and later in the show a company with jared kushner formally head is the c.e.o. he was in charge of the company well now it's under fire for se

so i'll make sure the e.p.a. hears loud and clear the impact the e.p.a.'s proposal will have on iowa's corn and soybean farmers and the biofuel producers in my state and all the jobs connected with it. that's not a way to make america strong once again. i yield the floor. the presiding officer: under the previous order, the senate stands adjourned until 10:00 a.m. tomorro

an e.p.a. told cbs that prosecute chartered the plane after his flight was significantly delayed, in order to ensure he did not miss a critical meeting and ethics officials were consulted. the colorado governor's office offered pruitt a ride on his government aircraft, but the e.p.a. declined. >> there needs to be an explanation of what that cost and why it was necessary. >> reporter: eric schaeffer is a former director of e.p.a.'s office of civil enforcement and now runs the environmental integrity project. >> especially when the budget is shrinking for your agency, the expectation is that you will travel as economically as possible. generally, that does not include chartering private jets for your travel. >> reporter: we called and e-mailed the e.p.a. a half dozen times. we wanted to know why it was necessary to use a military jet, and, also, why they turned down that invitation to fly with colorado's governor. an e.p.a. spokesperson d anthony. >> mason: julianna goldman doing air traffic con

an e.p.a. spokesperson declined to comment. anthony. >> mason: julianna goldman doing air traffic control for the administration. thanks. in a intriez today, saudi arabia's king ordered that women there finally be allowed to do something they do in every other country on earth-- drive cars. holly williams is in istanbul tonight. holly. >> reporter: for over two decades now, a determined group of saudi arabian women have been protesting against the ban on them driving by illegally taking to the road. some of them posting videos of that online. i met with some of those women in saudi arabia in 2014, and they told me that the freedom to drive was symbolic in a country where they have very few rights. saudi arabia is, of course, an ultraconservative state. one muslim cleric claimed that driving would harm women's reproductive organs. but things are very gradually change for saudi women. they're now permitting to vote in local elections. they're allowed to play sport at school, and more and more of them are going to university. anth

and so, that's what the e.p.a. is going to be looking for, if they say, and what we'll also be looking at. >> sreenivasan: and how do they measure is that, especially if the barrels had been dumped years and years ago. we don't necessarily know how strong those barrels were, how watertight those barrels were and if the water kind of seems down there during a flood, whether it kind of picks back up and goes somewhere else or it actually seems down into the aquifer. >> each superfund site is different. some have contaminate mechanisms for the pollution, like a pond. so, for example, if that were to be breached, that could spread contaminants. some have a cap of clean soil over old... older, contaminated dirty soil. and, you know, the worry is if there is significant flooding that can be removed and all that commingling and moving off site. in the case of these barrels, those barrels were new barrels. apparently, somebody who works on the site told us that they had been filled within the last month, last few weeks, by

over 35 years, e.p.a. superfund enforcement program has enabled thousands of site investigations and cleanup and has required viable responsible parties to either conduct the work or pay for the cleanups of these superfund sites. in other words, hold parties accountable for the action and correction of their activities. . any cut to these funds clearly place the corporate interest over those of the health and financial well-being of the american people. according to the e.p.a., the superfund enforcement program's efforts to negotiate settlement agreements and issue orders for cleanup work accounts for approximately 69% of all the cleanup work currently under way at superfund sites around this country. for every $1 superfund enforcement program spends, private parties commit $ toward cleanup work -- $8 toward cleanup work. the fund something eseng to saving taxpayer dollars and the roars of the superfund trust fund to address truly abandoned and orphaned sites. as of august 1, 2017, there were 1,845 superfu

and we have e.p.a. administrator who spent $58,000 on noncommercial flights to go to different places. with $58,000. ou can do a lot with that. $58,000, you could hire a v.a. spinal cord specialist for one year and secretary price spent over $400,000 of your money and that is a lot of spinal cord specialists and we are talking about raiding the public funds and raiding the public trust. that's why i have introduced the swampfire act. and what it will do is stop this from happening in the future. this will prohibit senior cabinet officials from using noncommercial flights unless they certify under penalty of perjury that no commercial floits were available. in this case, you have secretary price flying from here to nashville. i guarantee you there are lots of commercial flights and no reason he had to take a noncommercial flight. in addition to what we are seeing with these three cabinet officials, we have this culture of corruption that really needs to stop because this flows from the top. with the pres

. a lot heads the e.p.a. woman who never set foot in a public school and wants to privatized them heads public schools guy who wants to get rid of the energy department runs the energy department guy who killed teenagers just because he didn't like them having sags heads the department of agriculture. and guy who prided himself on hunting jews he's the new surgeon general i don't know if you are if you do that you get the point and in fact this week scott pruitt head of the e.p.a. said quote science should not be something that's just thrown about to try and dictate policy even last year did they say. yeah we should let science always get the way of our any article laws for example just because science says ingesting lead can cause brain damage vomiting and seizures doesn't mean we shouldn't do it. we should let cities like flint michigan experiment and that's why we here at the p.s.a. didn't do anything about the lead poisoning even though we knew about it nearly a year before we issued an emergency order le

e.p.a.uitt needed to fly on a military jet because he was on a tight schedule, flying to italy for a summit the next day. he questioned a $14,000 flight aboard a government aircraft on july 27. he flew from tulsa to diamond, oklahoma. e.p.a. says there were no commercial flights. they are questioning the reason for the flight. he met with the hand handle irrigators association. they couldn't find the group with that name on the internet. there was a group with a similar name, but the website was dormant for five years. e.p.a. is pushing back saying he met with landowners impacted on the e.p.a.'s regulations. the trips were cleared through the e.p.a. tonight, even republicans on capitol hill are slamming these cabinet members who are in part of an administration who promised to cut the pork and drain the swamp. >> thank you very much for that. finally tonight, congressman steve scalise is back on the job three months after being shot at a congressional baseball team practice. he got a very, v

certainly lobbied against an e.p.a. rule to prevent the government from more strictly regulating the toxin as a fossil fuel group that counts three of the companies as members the agency ultimately passed a rule strengthening overall benzene regulations but only after the company's filed critical comment letters the trumpet ministration and his e.p.a. has lowered the bar for these regulations so that they don't have to report during force majeure or hurricanes the release of benzene so right now is something like three or four times safe levels there's no safe level for benzene but there's four three or four times acceptable that the e.p.a. is willing to accept for humans to be exposed to it right like that you can have two or three rat hairs in a candy bar but you can add like a hundred different writers in a candy bar not exactly so it sounds like an environmental catastrophe yeah that's what's happening china's cleaning up there in my environmental catastrophes we're going the other way but we've got to go to the sec

contends that one applied according to label instructions e.p.a. there's not expect the use of knowledge for public mosquito control to raise a human health concern people are unlikely to breathe in the most large enough or touch anything with an open sock decide on it to harm them however the european union disagrees with b.p.'s was under the european union so they got together and said i don't like this. but the two is just sitting there making plans about how to get a chemical that certain main concern right now apparently it's like everybody else if you're going to side someone it must be part of some larger conspiracy is there complicity how about works the in the european union has very strict guidelines for assessments on certain anything toxic chemicals pesticides in these things and the idea is that they have come up with a system that if it doesn't if they set up a set of scenarios and it's not safe for people all day and they can't sell it what they say is the assessment has demonstrated that bio sidle products containing knowledge canno

the e.p.a. chairman, especially, attacked. they cannot take commercial this houndinge of and this man is a -- i don't what is wrong with c-span, someone commented the papers you read are mostly liberal leaning and propaganda. thank you. donna, address two thing, her concerns over potential security issues for ome cabinet members and secondly, your organization, she said left wing and funded by soros. you can respond. guest: common cause was founded republican, john gardner, we have received no money from soros. i wish we had funding from george soros, we would welcome the support. are nonpartisan, nonprofit and i in my career, i've been years his work for 20 watchdogging democrats and republicans alike. esterday it was announced by campaign legal center, my former complaint my name is on complaining about funding the e clinton campaign and super pact found to be illegal. entireeen watchdogging my career and continue to do that at common cause w. respect to inurity, i mentioned earlier the program, it is legitimate reason to re

hugh and the e.p.a. they're working in conjunction with each other in order to address the issues but what we find is that they reach these areas which are low income people of color communities that are low resource at the very end so it is our organizational along with the polish in four other communities that are working here on the ground trying to get efforts whether that reentry kits for people who are once again re entering their homes who are getting their homes because and behold it only takes twenty four hours for mold to start forming in. home so coming back to toxic conditions. and yet the state and even the e.p.a. are very slow to act i think so it sounds like a lot of what you guys are doing as well are also informing the community so they're aware that these things are out there and now there's there's also a greater pollution problem already existing in areas of places like like crosby taxes can you tell us a little bit more about that right and wrong you have an organic plant that had th

. >> reporter: she says no one from the e.p.a. or any other government agency has talked to them about the health risks posed by hazardous wastes. do you feel like they're forgetting about you? >> yes, i honestly do. >> reporter: the e.p.a. plans to test the water and the soil near the san jacinto superfund site, they just isn't said when they will conduct those tests. residents hope it happens very soon. elaine. >> quijano: omar villafranca. omar, thanks. michelle miller spent the day with a health official that has been spreading the word about the health risks. >> the big key is that flooded water, as you know, is unsafe. >> reporter: dr. umir shaw is making the rounds in areas that were flooded in houston as the harris county public health director, he's warning residents about the risks they face while cleaning up their homes. >> the enemy of all this is mold, and mold loves moisture. >> seiomi meshak has seen a foot of water, and now mold is growing inside her garage and her house. when you took out the cabinetry and the she

my passion tonio and this is america's lawyers earlier this year the e.p.a. decided that they were not going to ban a commonly used. call to pirate for the pesticide had been a constant state of jeopardy with us for going to agencies for years in newly appointed to ph d. scott through it decided to end the discussion once and for all by saying that hey it's a good pesticide we're going to let it go there's a very good reason why this pesticide has been in limbo for so long and scientific reports on the toxicity of this compound were showing that it had the potential to severely damage the brains of children and reports were shown that thousands of people across the globe were dying every year because of exposure to this chemical tonight we'll tell you the story on how a major chemical company duped the public again duped the e.p.a. in order to keep their highly profitable toxin on the market in your body and later in the show a company with jared kushner formally head is the c.e.o. he was in charge of the company well now it's under fire for seeking the arres

but he, along with treasury secretary steven mnuchin and e.p.a.dministrator scott pruitt, are being scrutinized for spending more than $460,000 taxpayer on flights while slashing their own agencies' budgets. mnuchin has come under fire for using government planes with his wife. this morning, he couldn't escape the controversy. >> i can promise the american taxpayer the only time that i will be using mil-air is when there are,either for national security or where we have to get to various different things there are no other means. >> reporter: mr. trump's white house hasn't issued guidelines for government travel so there's a wide range of behavior. billionaires like wilbur ross and betsy devos own their own planes and personally pay to use them for official travel. on the other end of the spectrum are housing and urban development secretary ben carson and labor secretary alex acosta who tell us they only fly commercial, unless they're flying with the president or vice president. secretary price apologized and said he won't take any more private fl

the e.p.a. says by air they checked on 41 of those sites, 28 showed no damage, but 13 of those superfund sites were flooded and that has neighbors worried. elaine. >> quijano: omar villafranca, thanks. in crosby, texas, officials ignited the remaining combustible containers at the flood damaged arkema chemical plant. three trailers of highly unstable compounds went up late last week, shooting flames and smoke into the air. everyone within a 1.5 miles of the plant was evacuated. at least 18 people have gone to hospitals, complaining of breathing problems from the smoke. tonight at least 74 large wildfires are raging in eight western states. they have destroyed more than a million acres combined. several of the newest fires are in california. here's jamie yuccas. >> reporter: the hills surrounding los angeles have been burning for three days. with flames coming dangerously close to neighborhoods and freeways. fueled by 100-degree days and thick brush, the lacuna fire is burning in an area that has

the e.p.a. has been scrubbing the word climate change from its website. it removed its climate change page and then got hammered with a series of freedom of information act requests as to what is going on with that and so they quickly scrambled and published an archived version but buried it back in the website. the department of interior has removed discussions of the effects of global warming from several of its pages. the department of agriculture has e-mails showing how staff in their natural resources conservation service were coached by managers to avoid the term climate change and instead use other language. that's where we are. all of those facts, the motive behind it, the fingerprints of the fossil fuel industry, the confessions by participants in those schemes, and where are we? if this -- in this room, silence. nobody will talk about it because the power of the fossil fuel industry is so strong the threats are so blood curdling that nobody dares. we cannot have a grownup factual discussion about climate change in this building either. and, of c

happen to anyone this is america's lawyer earlier this year the e.p.a. decided that they were not going to ban a commonly used the bulk of powerful the pesticide of in a constant state of jeopardy with us played with. agencies for years in the newly appointed to the eighty's shot through it decided to end the discussion once and for all by saying that hey it's a good pesticide we're going to let it go there's a very good reason why this pesticide has been in limbo for so long and scientific reports on the toxicity of this compound were showing that it had the potential to severely damage the brains of children and reports were shown that thousands of people across the globe were dying every year because of exposure to this chemical tonight will tell you the story on how a major chemical company duped the public again duped the e.p.a. in order to keep their highly profitable toxin on the market in your body and later in the show a company with jared kushner formally headed the c.e.o. he was in charge of the company well now it's under fire for seeking the

however, e.p.a. did not dispute the facts in the report. nay: from the virginia task force one, elite team from fairfax county on the ground in katy, texas. the team taking an opportunity to do training on sunday. larry: as donations arrive in texas, the collection that everyone is talking about. right now, houston texans star defensive end j.j. watt is up to more than $19 million as the foundation collects donations for the city. over the weekend he and the other texans players began handing out the supplies that the denations have bought. nancy: that is to great to see. thank you to all of you who helped us stand up for texas on friday. you have given more than $600,000 to the salvation army. thank you. thank you for that. you can still donate to a link at wjla.com. larry: new information, they try to track down the suspect in another shooting death of a teenager. 19-year-old davis gunned down as she sat on the front steps stephen: the investigators are working the case. shooter opened fire and injuring three people killing a teenager. >>

reporter: at any point in time as you're taking a look at this issue is there any chance that fema, the e.p.a. and some of the places that were cut will see more money go into their budget? mr. bossert: i think we'll put money in as money is needed to address needs. this is the same trend i alluded to earlier. in 2005 we had a large spike in disaster relief funding, but we had to elevate the cap on flood insurance. we'll have to do that here. you'll see over the longer span of time even the flood insurance budget is red and black, red and black, based on claims and premiums. we'll analyze it in that fashion. i don't have a prediction for you on that. reporter: i asked two weeks ago about harvey and you said, i asked you about house, i wanted to know if you have an update on the issue of housing since now we have harvey and what else is coming along the way? can you get us an update as to locating housing for those who have been displaced. mr. bossert: in texas? reporter: in texas or wherever. mr. bossert: going back to texas, the governor is doing what we haven't seen before, he's dealing wit

last year maryland petitioned the e.p.a.o find out the impact of 36 power plants in indiana, kentucky, ohio, pennsylvania, and west virginia on maryland's air. but the e.p.a. had yet to act on the request. so now maryland is suing. michelle: joey od toems at the national guard has been singing the national anthem at the ravens game for years but now he is resigning. he calls it an ethical decision. he doesn't want to be caught up in the controversy. he said he is not offended by the protests. he supports them and adds it's something he personally fought for. nancy: o.j. simpson could be a free man in a matter of days. nevada prison official said the plan is in place for the 70-year-old to be released parole as early as monday. michelle: after 27 years they have cracked bizarre murder case in florida. in 1990, the florida woman was shot to death in her home by someone dressed as a clown and holding balloons. the police reopened the case three years ago and collected new d.n.a. evidence. that led them to sheila warren of virgi

the e.p.a. tells the a.p. that it has reviewed aerial imagery of the sites, but there's been no physical visit yet. president trump visited houston on saturday where he met with victims of the storm and volunteers helping with the recovery efforts. >> really i think people appreciate what's been done. it's been done very efficiently, very well, and that's what we're doing. we're very happy with the way everything is going. a lot of love. a lot of love. >> while putting on some classic love to serve food as a shelter, the president made this joke. >> my hands are too big. >> all right. could be seen as some by another controversial move by the trump administration. president trump is expected to announce today that he is ending an obama era program that allows undocumented immigrants who came to the u.s. as children to stay in this country. attorney general jeff sessions is set to hold a briefing on the program known as daca at 11:00 this morning. to help perp suede the president to terminate the program and pu

and we have e.p.a. administrator who spent $58,000 on noncommercial flights to go to different places. with $58,000. ou can do a lot with that. $58,000, you could hire a v.a. spinal cord specialist for one year and secretary price spent over $400,000 of your money and that is a lot of spinal cord specialists and we are talking about raiding the public funds and raiding the public trust. that's why i have introduced the swampfire act. and what it will do is stop this from happening in the future. this will prohibit senior cabinet officials from using noncommercial flights unless they certify under penalty of perjury that no commercial floits were available. in this case, you have secretary price flying from here to nashville. i guarantee you there are lots of commercial flights and no reason he had to take a noncommercial flight. in addition to what we are seeing with these three cabinet officials, we have this culture of corruption th really eds to stop because this flows from the top. with the presiden

papen tonio and this is america's muar earlier this year the e.p.a. decided that they were not going to ban a commonly used pesticide called quote pirates for the pesticide had been a constant state of jeopardy with us for two agencies for years and newly appointed to the aging scott pruitt decided to end the discussion once and for all by saying that hey it's a good pesticide we're going to let it go there's a very good reason why this pesticide has been in limbo for so long and scientific reports on the toxicity of this compound were showing that it had the potential to severely damage the brains of children and reports were showing that thousands of people across the globe were dying every year because of exposure to this chemical tonight will tell you the story on how and major chemical companies do the public again do keep.

the e.p.a.s that it detected extremely high levels of dioxins in the san jacinto river, after a protective cap was damaged at the site. dioxins are linked to cancer and birth defects, and can be spread in contaminated mud. a 12th person has died after being taken from a sweltering nursing home in south florida, in the wake of hurricane irma. it happened on september 13, when nearly 150 patients were wheeled out of the facility in hollywood hills. the building's air conditioning had lost power. a criminal investigation into the deaths is continuing. new tragedy for rohingya muslims fleeing myanmar. u.n. officials report more than 60 of them apparently drowned last night, when their boat capsized off bangladesh. they were trying to join more than half a million others who have already made the perilous journey. today, as relatives buried the drowning victims at a refugee camp, a u.n. spokesman said the story they told is "astonishing." >> the boat left myanmar and had been at sea for two days. sur

e.p.a. administrate pruitt spent on private jets