my e.p.a. staff over the last put in 22,000 hours of to the l assistance states in order to help comply with the whips. sure. senator cardin: that's very and you need to do that. enforcement saying -- [indiscernible] the concern is, will you at the end of the day agreements?e administrator wheeler: again, sir, as the obama administration argued to the supreme court, the tmdl is not legally enforceable but we can use our permit we orities and we are and have and we will continue to do so. and that's under the mpds make sure the states are going to be able to achieve their targets by 2025. so.ill continue to do the comments that spurred all this was back in a january meeting with one of my career a public meeting where his comments were taken out of context, which was tmdl issue.the it does not mean we don't have other authorities. those inue to use authorities through our permitting process to make sure all the states meet their we'retions but, again, if going to -- first of all, nobody has fail

after the e.p.a. refused to do anything about the out of state pollution that was traveling to each one of these states both states 'd had filed petitions with the e.p.a. to investigate the matter but the e.p.a. flatly refused to do their job as usual the court of appeals ordered that the p.a. start doing their job finally something that the agency has never been willing to do certainly in the last 15 years but even the conservative supreme court has said that the e.p.a. can't get away with ignoring the clean air act so corporations have to buckle up and get ready for a new round of enforcement that's all for the not find us on twitter and facebook at facebook dot com slash r t america's lawyer you can watch all our t. america programs and direct t.v. channel 3 to one also stream them live on you tube and be sure to check out our team's new portable app you can watch all the programs any area that you want your favorite shows on that might have been tony and this is america's lawyer where every week w

is a specialist on digital epidemiology at the swiss federal institute of technology the e.p.a. f l and he joins us now good to have you with us you just attended i believe a press conference on the new swiss proximity tracing app which was co-developed by the e.p.a. f l how is the up going to slow the spread of sasco to. well we're less interested i guess and slowing the spread we really want to sort of prevent another way from happening i think that's where the apps will shine the most because they will support the consecration which is so important to break the transmission chains but that hasn't happened with with all the apps already existing we certainly know that the australian covert $1000.00 app only found one k's in a month do we know what the problem is. well so one has to be seen that before today it was essential impossible to really build a contact tracing app that would work on all sean so all the apps that have been released before today have had these severe issues that they didn't work properly especially on i phones because the operating system just wouldn't a

to come in it's time for e.p.a. to exercise your authority and to everybody's great surprise they agreed to do that . so hewlett packard became a superfund site until became a superfund site national semiconductor advanced micro devices i.b.m. you name it they were there and they were all superfund sites. the cost of cleanup for i.b.m. as well as all the other companies has been tremendous it's an enormously slow and tedious process. if you look right over here also this is a major residential neighborhood just directly across the street from this industrial site. most of the people living here today are unaware of this huge toxic plume. and those same chemicals that are still right under where we're standing are now beginning to seep back up out of the groundwater through the soil and they're actually coming into the offices of these software engineers a google. and this is the one that e.p.a. said might take 300 years to clean up. this is so complicated the devastation is so enormous that we're really talking cent

i used to work for the e.p.a. in illinois and one of the most interesting things about this is that it takes years for for any piece of litigation to come down from the federal government when it relates to environmental policy and environmental protection so you have families who have had issues with their water with lead poisoning for the past 35 years because of this plant and they were just beginning to see some level of relief and terms of in terms of the litigation back 2 years ago and the regulations that were given then for the reopening of the plant for them. you know basically right their wrongs was a multi-stage process they're not even finished with one and now they are basically issuing the issuing statements that they can't do the other 6 or 7 because the code 19 and it really is garbage and so if you can use that excuse that. i have to ask you know you were in working on a 2 as it's like we're going to see this job all across the board with bart making that decision are we going to pretty much just

president down there this has just been forming the last year and probably different from here in my e.p.a.'s measurement is it over 20 meters through honest like 600 to meet that 5th ice here so the heat has been melting very safe place here and has been dropping down you know for for the 1st year. is definitely going on and on we have like every day there are earthquakes here but small but every few weeks we have like 3 rick that earthquakes you know but it's trembling going on in the mountain for the last year like every day before that for many years you did not say it was a big news if there's any kind of earthquake here but now it's like every every day and i very few weeks quite big earthquakes that many times they've been feeding base ashtrays down in the farms and the whole thirsty of the loaf but. when will an as volcano erupt nobody knows but the iceland has been making careful preparations. when the volcano erupted in 2010 it was on the news for days the ash cloud reached a height of almost 10 kilometers if the earlier figure called were to erupt as violently as it did in the 1

one you started going to be no more scores no e.p.a. what you can do. it would be with. me could you. buy me due to the way you covered up. by bits of. expediency is mean what do i need to do this love. not constantine but done off and his crew hunted down. i'm sunken submarines. 24 soviet submarines were lost in the baltic sea alone. gives us a path was one of the best known serviette baltic slips up mariners to come under the shelf for 06 submarine and after his very 1st mission was awarded the hero of the soviet union medal sank several enemy vessels want to keep on going can't get enough of a private boat. in may 943406 left on its 3rd mission with 37 crewmen aboard never to return. no one knew what happened to it all went to look lost historical muscle feels awful for you learn your store genius look at me push me give me the excuse or stroke of the enough for you. to be allowed by the warden you come. to me. you were dumb as a fellow new words. morning was more snow more. each in yours a little you started on the floor the stalk my meal through on your door the flo

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abnormalities and lived with a life long health issues equated with the disaster now do you think the e.p.a. pressure implants would push the factory to do better but not so fast to look 66 the company that owns the wood river refinery has suspended all work on the lead abatement program they were required to complete this means that the thousands of lives the factory has put it risk over the years are still subject to lead unhealthy water and poor air quality the reason tobit $1000.00 and the department of justice seems to be helping the polluters issuing a problematic new policy the deal j. recently said it would suspend the collection of penalties for violations of consent decrees and other enforcement orders is david baron managing attorney at the environmental nonprofit justice that settlement agreements and civil litigation are only as good as the government's willingness to watchdog the consent decree and make sure that the parties comply. that is that is huge news because i think we are all relieved a little bit when we started seeing you know because of the stay at home orders the

average workers into a fine pace that is then dumped into public waterways which clearly violates e.p.a. guidelines everyone knows you put the bodies in the barbecue pit not in the storm drain. common courtesy. but yes cities just want to keep the gravy train going new york city wants to sell those broadway ticket chicago wants the money from selling sausages and in st louis once the income that comes from people buying bus tickets out of st louis so cities and states are opening up but many employers are not giving their workers appropriate protective gear and amazon's whole foods didn't want to pay to protect their workers so instead the aprons that just said heroes on them i'm not getting and p.f. chang's has told employees that they should cover their faces with chunks of teriyaki chicken and if they see someone sneezing they should kill them with a karate chop to the neck p.f. chang's is also now in a protracted legal battle over their racist assumption that working at p.f. chang's means you're an expert at the karate chop i may have made up everything i said about p.f. chang's but

bank bailout and that would be bad for the economy so just when it comes to the regulations at the e.p.a. or f.d.a. public health and safety could also be at risk or at least be some sort of oversight as to which regulations are scrapped they're absolutely should be. donald trump everything is god and all the things he doesn't want he got anything that stands in the way of making a dollar. you know safety be damned environment be damned pollution be damned let's bring back coal let's bring back all these archaic things as long as it promotes the almighty dollar he lives and dies by the dollar and i got news for him there is more in this world than money believe it or not believe it or not there are things in this world that are more valuable than money but unfortunately we have a president that doesn't believe that he believes that money in the economy is important but they're going to ask these frontline workers to put their lives on the line i'll tell you what brigitta i think congress should go out and do these frontline jobs 1st just like i said with health care you want health care

essay of course individuals should have high expectations on the cooperation between member states in e.p.a. and union but that we have summits that fail to come to a conclusion it's not a new phenomena that's how it's been all the time in the european union and the right of that was difficult already oh old read it from the beginning to find a compromise and of course now when the needs are much much bigger there's a need a much more money into this of course is not easier to come to conclusions especially not when you're not meeting face to face so i don't think that we should use this this is not in my view this is not what we are seeing is not a failure of european union we have a lot of difficulties of course but they say these are not new difficulties and we can manage them not a not a failure brule america is a clown show and the french president emmanuel macro says if the is going to die it will die from inaction you say that you get disagreements all the time in the you but this is a critical situation this is a life and death crisis you would expect better under these circumstance

tremendous power to cut regulations that they see as putting a damper on an economic recovery namely the e.p.a. and the department of transportation trump adding he wants to make those cuts permanent even after all things coated are over now president trump did when the battleground state of michigan back in 2016 against hillary clinton promising to bring back jobs but political analysts do say that it all depends upon how the economy bounces back after the covert 19 crisis starts to take a fall for boom bust i'm fair and fronsac. stocks dropped thursday as wall street absorbed this week's gains well one of the concerns for investors are the continued and growing tensions between the united states and china president trump said the united states would react strongly if china imposes national security laws for hong kong in response to last year's often violent anti-government protests meanwhile u.s. secretary of state mike pompei o had criticized beijing's handling of the virus pandemic well for their party chinese officials said the country will not flinch from any escalation and tensions join

all of the increased cleanliness levels that we're introducing with hospital-grade disinfectants and e.p.artified cleaning supplies. >> brennan: and everyone has to wear a mask, is that what you mean by visual cue? >> visual cue, certainly from our employees, yes. you'll see our staff with masks, and guests being asked to wear masks as they check into the hotel. >> brennan: you, as we mentioned, have franchises, so other business owners hold on to the properties themselves. is the emergency support that congress and the fed have made available, is it enough to avoid bankruptcies? >> it is incredibly helpful. and we applaud the administration, congress -- we applaud all of the efforts offered to our franchisees. they look at the percent support as a lifeline. 90% of our small business owners have applied for a p.p.p., and 80% have received that. it is enough to allow them to avoid bankruptcy. they view this as a lifeline, an anchor, at a time when they needed it most. one of my franchisees i was talking to yesterday, kitty singh, felt like she was in the deep end of the pool, about to sink,

you know, the president has loosened the restrictions on the e.p.a., which we know is creating an issueblack and brown communities all around this country, inhibiting our ility to breathe, the pandemic is impacting black and brown communities disproportionately in regards to access to health care and testing, in regards to employment, in regards to who is dying from this pandemic. 60% of all the deaths have beenblock and brown people. so -- black and brown people. so seems like that was a symbol for america having its knee on the necks of black and brown people in this country. >> reporter: councilwoman, you were at the protests last night, there are protests again tonight in minneapolis. if there are no charges in the days and weeks ahead, what do you think the reaction will be? >> well, certainly there were protests last night, and there have been protests all day today, and i have been t two of them, already. i believe that we will no get to a place of beginning to think about healing until we have charges against those officers. that is the only -- that's wha i'm hearing from my con

e.p.a. commissioner ronen? >> commissioner ronen: aye. >> clerk: commissioner safai? >> commissioner safai: aye. >> clerk: commissioner stefani? >> commissioner stefani: aye. >> clerk: ye,. >> commissioner yee: aye. >> commissioner peskin: next item, please. item number 10. update on the municipal transportation agency's transportation programs to assist seniors and people with disabilities. this is an information item. >> commissioner peskin: ms. la porte. >> anna la la la porte, deputy director. the previous item was providing taxi rides for essential workers. and i'm pleased that we're also able to shed light on the suite of programs that are offered to san franciscans and. and the next presentation is what is offered as far as assistance for seniors and people with disabilities. several commissioners have asked about this, what transportation services the san francisco municipal transportation agency is offering to support the mobility of people with disabilities and older adults, due to the transit service reductions during the covid-19 pandemic. in response, sta

now, e.p.a. can appeal that decision if they choose to. administrator wheeler, i ask you not appeal that decision. circuit court has appealed. if there's ever a true example of the golden rule, treating other people the way you want to be treated, i think this is it. i want to have your assurances you won't repeal the d.c. circuit court of appeals? administrator wheeler: i want to reserve judgment until the mr. wheeler: i am supposed to have a briefing later this afternoon. i didn't want to reserve judgment until the office of the general counsel -- sen. carper: we look forward to hearing from you further. research shows people exposed to more air pollution may have greater cup of 19 risk light -- like we saw with the sars virus. covid-19 is having a more serious impact on lower income and minority communities, which often experience more air and water pollution. while epa used congress -- funding provided in the cares act to study whether covid-19 can be detected in wastewater, it is clear that there is much to be learned about the diseas