e.p.a. wants as much money as possible to flow back to producers in the countries of origin. procurement manager francisco pena is about to test a sample from uganda. the pre-packed coffee in uganda will only be dispatched if she gives the green light. as an expert she travels regularly to africa and discusses cultivation and quality standards with the partners. nothing works without mutual trust. him and healthy among the think of what we have very long term contracts with our trading partners some 12 to 14 months into the future so we're buying coffee on paper that doesn't even exist yet is forgotten. here the coffee's origins can be traced back to the individual farmers. trade a few horses as a fair trade pioneer it's very important for g.e. p.a. to show that we're buying very high quality coffee on fairtrade terms and that we have a very close relationship with the cooperatives we have direct trade relations there are no middlemen here which is something our customers want more information on and care about. the. customers are always happy when they see photos of the farm

i want to show you something on the screen if we can get it up. it's a chart that the e.p.a. -- you want me to hold it up. ok. ok. you going to be able to get this? unfortunately you can't see it very well. but it is a chart that the e.p.a. put out in 2018 and it shows the growth of our economy since 1970. the united states has actually grown our economy, our gross domestic product has grown almost 300%. our vehicles miles travel has grown almost 200%. population has grown. energy consumption has grown. pu our carbon output has decreased over that period of time. it is possible to do. we can grow our economy and decrease our carbon output. we have done that since 1970. in fact, if you look we have actually decreased six common pollutants almost 100% since 1970. while growing our economy. it can be done. one thing i want to make sure we understand is that, look, listen to me, this is not a republican-democratic issue. this is an american issue. this is a world issue. it's not united states versus china versus india. all of us have to work on this together. i have always -- i

trump's objective of having cleaner, safer, cars for the american public, the american public wants to purchase. >> e.p.a. general counsel. i think that this is an issue we proposed to take action on. we are eager to get the opportunity to have this reviewed in the courts. we are ready to defend our interpretation of the waiver withdrawal along with department of transportation's preemption theory. we are very confident that the courts will review that favorably. >> thanks. steve bradbury, acting deputy secretary of transportation and general counsel. the legal issues that are addressed in today's we like to call it the one national program rule, part one of the safe vehicles rule, the preemption issues and the waiver revocation are separable from the standards that will be addressed in the rest of the safe vehicles rule later this fall. and these are very, very important. this is a very important first step in achieving one national program. these legal issues really are the key to achieving what the auto industry and the entire automobile sector has long asked for, which is certainty and clarity on wha

the world's largest brewer aby invest wants to take its asian brand e.p.a. seed public their. use and the man overseeing the i.p.o. is confident despite the turbulence of recent weeks yeah i mean theoretically of course it is possible. conditions. market conditions but we are quite cold fronts so you just interest is there but investors' confidence in hong kong has started to go flat trade volumes are down over fears recent protests could further escalate. but so far as business hasn't been affected. and sales of its core brands budweiser corona and becks remain solid. worldwide sales are also up 2 point one percent the highest mark in recent years. the broom ice or is it a b. in bed hope to raise around $5000000000.00 in the i.p.o. . a sovereign wealth fund from singapore is reportedly looking to pick up around $1000000000.00 of the stock which could help put some fizz back into the hong kong market. 8 years of civil war have crushed the syrian economy and its currency back in 2011 you paid 50 syrian pounds for one us dollars a day the official rate is above $200.00 syrian po

wants to see if he can fix it. >> jedediah: i wouldn't be surprised if the e.p.a. some of these violations because of the health hazards to the public. they are going to say it. they are going to want to do something. the problem is with the money, if you take federal money and you just hand it over, that's taxpayer money. they investigative spending in sathey have been spendinghunf dollars in san francisco and los angeles for years now. it's not making a difference. liberals always think let's throw more money at the problem. the resistance is well this money is getting in the hands of people who are not properly allocating it. it's not being spent properly. it's not investing into the community in ways that seek to prevent these types of things from happening. and just because you stick up a housing complex is not going to fix a homeless problem. you have to deal with substance abuse. you have to deal with what's going on in that community that these people feel so alienated that they're turning to drugs and alcohol. >> dana: getting very upset. listen to this fr

we wanted to be as conservative as possible to judge these wipes. the e.p.a. has oversight when they release a sight for general public use, they have a risk range for cancer, and it's 10 -4 to 10 -6. when we counted the wipe, it's a simple conversion where you count the units, and we ended up getting the same units that our detector counted out. if you were to take the e.p.a. conservative value of 1 in a million and convert it to d.p.m., for alpha contamination, for plutonium, it would have to be 40 d.p.m. for there to be contamination in the home. for strontium, you had to have 5,280 d.p.m. in the home before you hit the -6 conservative risk range. we did a total of 229 desk wipes. not one dust wipe approached the 40 or the 5,208 d.p.m. values. therefore, we determined that there was no health and safety risk to any of the homes or artist studios. we did mail out individual results in june to all residents and the artist community, and no one had any findings of health and safety risk. questions? >> we're going to ask the speakers first if they have any ques

and that he doesn't want to give these are just jury verdicts we refer to the evaluations of regulators it was on april 30th that the e.p.a. confirmed that the active ingredient life estate is safe. so here canadian authorities did the same the german federal institute for risk assessment also did the same and for us these are the conclusions that count and on which we base our operations on all phone the whole of the uk and how do you explain the fact that despite these decisions the courts have reached the opposite conclusion and are now imposing huge fines on monsanto or rather bayer to reason grateful for turn this into a kind of these are not legally binding verdicts they are preliminary judgments that we are appealing again. and also you have to distinguish between these court proceedings and the licensing procedure which is an independent process we're not going to rely on the verdicts of juries which as we know can be very emotional and skillfully manipulated. zip in which you and i can food insecure she could that's why we are appealing and we know we'll be proven right by the scientific data. mining on choice th

want to take care of the corn farmers. all thoset mean for waivers to get out. they did. even though the e.p.a. has done a lot of really good stuff for agriculture industry, water, all that's been fixed, we're going to get to the point, i think really quick, where this be resolved and a certain minimum will be required to restore those ethanol amounts. ethanol is, you know, vital to our national security. helps us be energy independent. so i think we're almost there on that. >> keeping fingers crossed. >> and the one thing i would add it, talking about how will it wentt, in my district, 86% for president trump, you know, aty're sitting there looking the other alternatives and see saying, jeez, we've got a texan talking about closing the oil and gas industry. if you're a farmer and rancher, you might have minerals below you. they'rether side, hearing presidential candidates saying they want to eliminate the cattle industry by having a tax to make sure only the super elite can afford to eat cattle. there and look at it from this standpoint. once again, that's the big driver in texas, is cattle. n

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i wanted to make sure that you can get the facts from the very beginning. -- wasn't the governor of michigan involved in coercing some e.p.aals into the , andh from the flint river how they were negligent? i am reminded of how difficult how even whenre, president trump tried to say -- host: let us take your question. the role of the governor? guest: i do know about the governor pressuring the e.p.a. specifically. i know there was a whistleblower at the e.p.a. who tried to blow the whistle on lead levels very early on and he was discredited. this is something that we have seen throughout the entire crisis, when you have scientists or medical professionals who come with evidence suggesting there is led or bacteria in the -- that there is lead or bacteria in the water, and in each case, government officials have not taken it at face value. so the special prosecutor assigned to the case charged 15 people over the course of three years. he got the them cases that former director of michigan department of health and the chief medical executive, they were both charged with involuntary manslaughter for the legionnaires rick. -- of

e.p.a., yet it has the third most significant infrastructure needs in the country. this is unacceptable. particularly for a program so important in a state where water is so critical to our way of life. i want to thank congressman lucas. i want to again thank congressman mast for his work on habs and this important legislation before us today, and i yield my time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back the balance of his time. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. lucas: mr. speaker, i would note to my colleague before i reserve the balance of my time i have no additional speakers, and i'll be prepared to close if she's done with her speakers. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman reserves. the gentlelady from texas is recognized. ms. johnson: i have no requests for time. the speaker pro tempore: the gentlelady reserves. the gentleman from oklahoma is recognized. mr. lucas: mr. speaker, i yield myself such time as i may consume. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman virginia tech. mr. lucas: thank you, mr. speaker. h.r. 335 provides critical research on the harmful al ga blooms and high approximatea in southern florida. and will develop an action plan to mitigate and