that's according to figures published recently by the environment agency.waste, wet wipes and condoms, were released into waterways for more than three million hours last year. mps on the environmental audit committee heard from someone who confronted the officials after noticing sewage building up in the local river. there was a narrative, and the narrative was that the public knows we do this, it is just common and we cannot afford to do anything about it, so what is the problem? you don't want to pay any more money. and that was this underlying culture, and we said the public does not know about this and would be absolutely horrified. so the first thing was to try and understand what was really happening. and what the environment agency was telling us at the time was the water quality is good, the sewage is not spilling very much, and i think the language is very interesting here, which is the language is used to tone down the problem. a spill is what you do with a cup of tea. it is not when you discharge four days, volumes and volumes of raw sewage into

so the first thing was to try and understand what was really happening and what the environment agencywas the water quality is good, the sewage is not spilling very much, and i think the language is very interesting here, which is the language is used to tone down the problem. a spill is what you do with a cup of tea. it is not when you discharge four days, volumes and volumes of raw sewage into the river. another witness was feargal sharkey. yes, that feargal sharkey who once belonged to the punk band, the undertones. he told the committtee how he'd started campaigning for cleaner rivers. simply approaching the environment agency and asking what i thought was a very innocent and very straightforward question. that was some five years ago and i'm still here working on the answer. what was the question? where has our water gone, and what little water we have, why does it smell on occasion? as somebody who also spends a lot of time fishing, whether you can give an overview to the panel on the health of the rivers of the uk, and evidence you have seen of the impact of this pollution. the

the environment agency has a duty to police this space.e checking, they have to do the monitoring and they do the enforcement. do you think that enforcement is up to scratch? if more needs to be done, they must do more. if sewage is going into our waters when it shouldn't be, and there is evidence and data, some action has to be taken. that is... that is how we keep the environment clean and well looked after and sustainable. but some water companies are breaking the law. this storm overflow is on the river usk, in wales. there's loads of paper, toilet roll, sanitary towels in the trees over there. up, and off you go again. look at that. absolutely foul. so, this... this is how we treat our protected rivers. local resident angela jones has recorded untreated sewage being dumped several times a day. i can't tell you what this is doing to the wildlife. the usk is a protected river. it's a site of special scientific interest and a special area of conservation. angela swims in it every day. for me, wild swimming is very much who i am. i wouldn

the environment agency has a duty to police this space.the checking, they have to do the monitoring and they do the enforcement. do you think that enforcement is up to scratch? if more needs to be done, they must do more. if sewage is going into our waters when it shouldn't be and there's evidence and data, some action has to be taken. that is — that is how we keep the environment clean and well looked after and sustainable. but some water companies are breaking the law. this storm overflow is on the river usk in wales. there's loads of paper, toilet roll, sanitary towels in the trees over there. up, and off you go again. look at that. absolutely foul. so, this... this is how we treat our protected rivers. local resident angela jones has recorded untreated sewage being dumped several times a day. i can't tell you what this is doing to the wildlife. the usk is a protected river. it's a site of special scientific interest and a special area of conservation. angela swims in it every day. for me, wild swimming is very much who i am. i wouldn't

the site's being closely monitored by the environment agency, which has ordered that improvements aremunity's concerns and it's capping an extensive area of the site. a few miles away, it's made learning very difficult for children like ruby, poppy and ben. you can't work and your minds just set onto the landfill. it makes me feel sick, i have headaches all the time, it puts me off my work. it won't go away, like, _ no matter how many air fresheners you get, it won't go. chanting: stop the stink! hundreds joined another protest this week, demanding that something's done to stop the silverdale stink from overpowering the whole area. phil mackie, bbc news, newcastle—under—lyme. party leaders in wales will face each other in a 90—minute television debate this evening, with a week to go to the senedd election. the pandemic has cast a shadow over the campaigning so far. 0ur wales correspondent hywel griffith reports. connecting with voters, pressing the flesh, the usual campaign choreography has been constrained by the pandemic. the party leaders all say they can help wales recover but the

the latest air quality report is due out later and the environment agency has told the operator it mustste management company, we recognise that we are hosted by the local communities in which we operate. we are acutely aware of the community's concerns regarding our landfill operations. an accelerated engineering capping operation is under way which will seal an extensive area of the site." a few miles away, it's made learning very difficult for children like ruby, poppy and ben. it's the same here in the classroom. you can't work and your minds just a set onto the landfill. it makes me feel sick. i have headaches all the time, it puts me off my work, it puts me off my food. and then the smell will come in and, like, it won't go away. _ like, no matter how many air. fresheners you get, it won't go. it's horrible. chanting: stop the stink! hundreds joined another protest this week demanding that something's done to stop the silverdale stink from overpowering the whole area. phil mackie, bbc news, newcastle—under—lyme. the duke and duchess of cambridge are celebrating their 10th wedding

are able to get visibility into their own risk which is critically important for agency cios to understand their environment and the risk they are in and for cisa to get across government visibility into risk trends which will then the agency directive we issued is an example when we issue these directives cdm particularly as it matures gives us the ability to look into agency networks and understand the pervasiveness of a given risk and drive refocused remediation. >> very good answer. with batman chair i yield back. >> thank you madam chairwoman and first thing i want to talk about is a macroissue and that's where we are in cyber security . when i was on the intelligence committee and i represent nsa also so i focused a lot in cyber security and we are nsa is very good as it relates to russia and china and those issues but we moved to cisa and i think cisa has been given a task that they just can't do the job that they need to do because of a lack of resources and lack of personnel but i do want to say that, the personnel there is doing a great job and they just can't do it all. i really was upset when we

the latest air quality report is due out later and the environment agency has told the operator it mustll operations. an accelerated engineering capping operation is under way which will seal an extensive area of the site." a few miles away, it's made learning very difficult for children like ruby, poppy and ben. it's the same here in the classroom. you can't work and your minds just a set onto the landfill. it makes me feel sick. i have headaches all the time, it puts me off my work, it puts me off my food. and then the smell will come in and, like, it won't go away. _ like, no matter how many air. fresheners you get, it won't go. it's horrible. chanting: stop the stink! hundreds joined another protest this week demanding that something's done to stop the silverdale stink from overpowering the whole area. phil mackie, bbc news, newcastle—under—lyme. the duke and duchess of cambridge are celebrating their 10th wedding anniversary today and to mark the occasion, they've released a new photograph. a decade ago, two—billion people around the world tuned in to watch william and catherine ge

the latest air quality report is due out later and the environment agency has told the operator it mustit's the same here in the classroom. you can't work and your minds just a set onto the landfill. it makes me feel sick. i have headaches all the time, it puts me off my work, it puts me off my food. and then the smell will come in and, like, it won't go away. _ like, no matter how many air. fresheners you get, it won't go. it's horrible. chanting: stop the stink! hundreds joined another protest this week demanding that something's done to stop the silverdale stink from overpowering the whole area. phil mackie, bbc news, newcastle—under—lyme. now it's time for a look at the weather with stav danaos. hello there. we are finally getting to see some classic april weather for the next few days. we are ending the month with april showers and sunny spells after cold and frosty starts. and we have seen those shower clouds bubbling up across the country through this morning. low pressure is clearing away into the near continent. it is allowing higher pressure to slowly build in, but there is st

that i think we can expect from an administration that's trying to center climate and environment across all agencies at the u.s. administration level but we really have got to accelerate the commitment to increasing our you know our reduction in emissions is going to be something that we've got to push forward we've got to hold this administration accountable to deliver on that we've got to do it also in a way that pays respect to environmental justice and moves resources to those on the margins of society those that we know been harmed in a being harmed 1st and most by the unfolding climate crisis center the u.s. and china are at loggerheads when it comes to so many issues i mean there is so much diplomatic tension between both countries right now and it wasn't clear until almost last minute if president xi jinping was actually going to be participating in this earth day summit how important is it that both the u.s. and china are going to be involved. day mahomet and to my fellow panelists i think is bay in port and both the optics in terms of understanding that this issue is a non-negotiable issue

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covid is it's kind of -- there's certain students that have been able to thrive in this environment having the agencyhave been able to support them. but we are seeing there's about 15% of the population that has really fallen off the radar. one of my neighbors is a public school teacher and she's talked about -- this is in a pretty upper middle class neighborhood, 10% of students she's not able to connect with. there's another probably quarter of the students who are able to engage but they just don't have all the socio-emotional support. so it is something we have to be worried about because we're going to build on them and these kids are going to suffer. >> no question about it. the los angeles unified school district is the second largest in the country and students there have not stepped in a classroom for more than a year. a new report found that an alarming number of students in this district are now at risk of not graduating. 20% of the class of 2021, 43% of the class of 2022, 37% of the class of 2023 and down it goes. as the poster child of online education, did you expect this? was this prev

in community work so right now i'm working a lot with the un environment and an environment to work with different agencies. the big sign to fix. our time is climate change climate change and hard effects us in so many ways. in africa the discourse the conversation is around adapting to climate change. african countries and developing countries basically not because of climate change per se but they're the ones suffering the most from the impact so how the conversation in climate changes is developed countries must mitigate reduce their emissions and african countries must adapt. so with climate change a number of scientific lines of inquiry but i would say in terms of what we are interested in some of the creatures that we've worked with it's to do with climate change and health. climate changes cause malaria epidemics to be more prevalent malaria cholera all of these things that have to do with the ecosystem changing so now you're looking at how climate change is affecting the disease. disease outbreaks and how now the system can adapt better. to syria strategically important in the western region of ken

environment. while health and human services and partner agencies look for family members and or sponsors who are suitable to take care of the children while their cases move through immigration court and often these children must be noted are coming up to reunite with apparent was been in the us on authorized, often working and sending money home. >> too many of them have someone in the united states that will not for them? and then if they don't, what happens ? >> health and human services and advocacy organizations that work with migrants tell us the vast majority do have a relative in the us who can vouch for them and care for them. that's been through multiple administrations. there was a concern about people not coming forward during the trump administration because legal status was being checked and if they don't have someone there are sponsors who are vented and checked as with any child who is put into custody of someone who's not their parent and there are also foster care situations where families will take in the children. we've seen that in the past and finally, there are a little bi

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environmental protection agency to ensure our nation has clean air, clean water and a safe environment. unfortunately in 2020 the e.p.a. strayed from its mission any number of times. one of those missteps was that agency's emission rule. our nation's largest industrial source of this dangerous greenhouse gas. by passing this resolution, congress today will reject and nullify this dangerous rule and restore clean air and climate protections from the nation's largest sources of methane pliewns -- pollution. let me expwhrain what methane is and why it is so farmful to our climate. methane is a super pollutant. it damages our lungs and our planet. compared to carbon dioxide, methane is a small part of the greenhouse gas emissions. having said that though scientists tell us that methane is responsible for one-quarter of the manmade warming we're witnessing. let me say it again. methane is responsible for roughly one-quarter of the manmade warming we're witnessing today. over a 20-year period, methane is 20 times more harmful to our climate than carbon dioxide, 84 times. for a small molecule

now we have no intention of dismantling the regulatory agencies, especially those necessary to protect environment and assure the public health and safety. however, we must come to grips with inefficient and burdensome regulations eliminate those we can and reform the others. i have asked vice president bush to hit a cabinet level task force on regulatory relief. second i asked each member of my cabinet. to postpone the effective dates of the hundreds of new regulations, which have not yet been implemented. third in coordination with the task force many of the agency heads of already taken prompt action to review and rescind existing burdensome regulations. and finally just yesterday. i signed an executive order that for the first time provides for effective and coordinated management of the regulatory process. much has been accomplished. but it's only a beginning. we will eliminate those regulations that are unproductive and unnecessary by executive order where possible and cooperate fully with you on those that require legislation. the final aspect of our plan requires a national monetary policy

they are cared for in a much better environment while health and human services and partner agencies look for family members and/or sponsors to take care of the children while their case moves through immigration court. children are coming up to reunite with a parent who has been in the u.s. unauthorized, often working and sending money home. too many of them have -- host: do many of them have someone in the united states will vouch for them and if they don't what happens? guest: health and human services and activist organizations tell us the vast majority do have a relative in the u.s. who could doubt for them and care for them. there was a concern about people not coming forward in the trump administration. there are sponsors who are vetted and checked. there are foster care situations where families will take in this situation. there are facilities where children could wait while the case is moved to immigration court. host: if the person that is the sponsor vouching for them, if that person is not a legal citizen, they are allowed to go with them? guest: they are. these are pare

bell joins us via zoom and he led the environmental protection agency, served as the director for competitive institute for energy and environment. remind viewers first what you do and what your mission is, especially on this issue of a changing climate. guest: cei, competitive enterprise institute, is a fairly small public policy institute that specializes in regulation, all kinds of regulation, not just energy and environment. from a free-market perspective. host: how long have you been around? guest: 1984, fred smith started cei with his wife, fran. host: what is the center street -- center for energy and environment there? guest: we have a very small team. your average environmental group is over $100 million per year and cei is $7 million per year and we have maybe a third of our work is energy environment, so we have a small team and we try to hit the highlights on virtually every type of energy policy, chemical risk, plastics, climates, energy, transportation , and all kinds of federal lands, property rights, and others. host: it is cei.org if you want to check it out. as day two of the climate summit gets underway, presi

the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team,the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, es

$35 billion for drinking water and wastewater infrastructure programs at the environment -- environmental protection agencye next five years. these problems will create jobs, making our communities healthier by building, by repairing, by upgrading, and by modernizing our nation's aging drinking water and wastewater infrastructure systems. here's how. first the measure takes the historic step of reauthorizing the clean water state revolving loan fund for the first time in 35 years. 35 years. and it does so by increasing funding levels for the first time since 1987. this legislation also reauthorizes the drinking water state revolving loan fund, a program whose authorization expires, as i mentioned earlier, at the end of this year. this fund helps to ensure that clean water flows whenever we turn on our faucet. that clean water comes out of it. next this bill makes sure that we're helping our fellow americans most in need, the least of these, most in need by boosting funding for programs that fund projects in low-income areas and rural communities and tribal lands and communities of color that historically h

that need to get this message from congressional colleagues agency leadership be cfos and plenty of other stakeholders in the business environment and we got to do a better job in my view of explaining what this is buying down and there are a lot of different ways to do that. there is some good stuff in best practices but i'm not going to pretend like the answer is ecp it's not that we got to focus on help each other when we are figuring out how that's a type of sharing it like to see more of not just tech the assuring that getting into this budget sharing as well. and again it's going to take a sustained long-term effort to. we are talking about big numbers here are the biden administration's you saw his transitions with over 10 billion-dollar apps in the american rescue plan focused on rebuilding i.t.. there is a reason we picked that number and we view that members of down payment. i think everyone understands that and the scope of the federalizing footprint in what's going to be modernized. a great example where communication occurred but with congress -- congress when they gave $2 billion in these initiatives and it's a gre

that should be regulated were much too cozy with of the agency and i think that it harmed and impacted the approach to protecting the environment so looking forward to your work at the agency. i'm going to be parochial the way some others have been. it won't surprise you on the chesapeake bay. first let me say i'm gratified the administration is focused on environmental protection. as an economic engine from my home state of maryland and frankly for the whole region which is one reason it is so vitally important so i'm very pleased to see the administration's emphasis on restoration protection. in the last administration there were a lot of proposals to cut funding to cut the programs and there wasn't the commitment to the kind of cooperative and collaborative leadership across the states in the chesapeake bay watershed that we needed to ensure the restoration. an example of that in the last administration was a failure to have a robust enforcement when it comes to that kind of cooperative approach. as the colleagues in congress can count on the unit of changes that help provide that cooperative framework that we need to meet t

agency. this idea that comets and protection of our environment should be a red state or blue state issue, that this is a new idea. it is a pernicious idea, not moving us forward. we need to get around this idea that we are united in wanting to leave our children a livable world. it is that simple. host: sounds like you made an update to the book? guest: i'm thinking about it. thanks for the question. host: scott in utah, good morning. caller: good morning. i want to thank you for the work you are doing. it seems to me that some people want to stick their head in the sand, and i see them driving bigger and bigger pickup trucks. like you were saying, the battery technology will just improve. all of the technology will improve. batteries will get wider and more efficient and right now, i am driving a four-cylinder small pickup until i can get my hands on an electric vehicle, but i am a business owner and have had to change my business two to three times to adapt to the times. how long have these people known that this is the way things are going and they just leave, marks on the industry and do n

>> at the same time, new voices were coming into the agency, the environment of laws require the foresty all have a right to voice what they want to do with these forests. they are the orders coming out to see how you are managing their land. >> the forest service is really good about proposing to do new things, provide resources to different constituencies. it's good at saying to the recreation is, sure we're happy to build you another campground or picnic area. and then turn to the timid industry and say -- timber industry, we will provide you more timber. and turn to the ranchers and say we are happy to provide grass for your cows. yes, we're happy to protect habitat for elks. they like to provide goods and services. people are happy when they provide goods and services. in the post-world war ii period, you cannot provide everything that everybody wants all the time without there being some conflicts. >> forest service planus correlated input from the public with data about natural resources. they hoped that by optimizing the variables the new computer models would help determine the

ebell joins us via zoom and he led the environmental protection agency, served as the director for competitive institute for energy and environment. remind viewers first what you do and what your mission is, especially on this issue of a changing climate. guest: cei, competitive enterprise institute, is a fairly small public policy

the san francisco department of environment is the only agency that has a full time educational team,the schools to help teach children how to protect nature and the environment. we realized we needed animal mascot to spark excitement with the students. the city during the gold rush days, the phoenix became part of the city feel and i love the symbolism of the phoenix, about transformation and the message that the theme of the phoenix provides, we all have the power to transform our world for the better. we have to provide teachers with curriculum online, our curriculum is in two different languages and whether it's lesson plans or student fact sheets, teachers can use them and we've had great feedback. we have helped public and private schools in san francisco increase their waste use and students are working hard to sort waste at the end of the lunch and understand the power of reusing, reducing, recycling and composting. >> great job. >> i've been with the department for 15 years and an environmental educator for more than 23 years and i'm grateful for the work that i get to do, es

>> well, in today's environment with body cams beiing among law enforce thcement agencies, typi they want to get it out to the public to build trust between the law enforcement and community. there is simply no reason in this day in time to hide anything, to delay, there is no reason. the brown family can deal with an adverse situation if it is in fact, an adverse situation but having them to wait to guesstimate what happened is cruel and unusual punishment to an extent. >> wayne kendall, appreciate you joining us. thank you so much for your insight. >> thank you for having me. >>> we'll get perspective from cnn legal and national security analyst. she's also a former fbi special agent joining us, as well, joe a former nypd officer and author of the book "police brutality matters." there is a lot going on here. let's just start, we only know so much based on the limited i have video we've seen and verbal accounts of people that have only seen parts of the video. let's take for a second the idea if, a big if based on what we know this is a justified use of force by officers, why the d

>> well, in today's environment with body cams being ubiquitous amongst law enforcement agencies, typically, law enforcement agencies want the get the public out to know exactly what happened in order to build trust between law enforcement and the community. there is simply no reason in this day in time to hide anything to delay, to obfuscate, there is no reason. we simply want to know what happened. the brown family can deal with an adverse situation if it is in fact, an adverse situation but having them to wait to guesstimate what happened is cruel. it's unusual punishment to an extent. >> wayne kendall, appreciate you joining us. thank you so much for your insight. >> thank you for having me. >>> we'll get perspective from cnn legal and national security analyst ash ra agappa. she's also a former fbi special agent joining us, as well, joe a former nypd officer and author of the book "police brutality matters." asha, there is a lot going on here. really. we only know so much based on the limited video we've seen and the verbal accounts that we've been told by other people who have seen pa

and it's, you know, police agencies would be well served to understand the environment they're operatingnd start playing by the rules. >> elliott, why would the footage the family saw 20 seconds need to be in their words in the words of the police red redacted? does that make sense to you? >> it does to some extent. again, if there were innocent bystanders there, minors, people perhaps under investigation at the time, but it's just per perp perplexing, anderson. here is the problem. this is not -- we're not talking about the law now. this is p.r. if they were able to release the 20 seconds and they clearly have the rest of the footage, it was very much in their interest to release the rest of the video to the public because what they did if you saw that press conference today, those lawyers put on a clinic for how to take back the story and the police, the sheriff's department just basically failed there. so now, by creating a vacuum as to what else is in the rest of that footage, they have really stepped in it, and just left more questions for the public. >> yeah, elliott williams, andr

and -- and it's, you know, police agencies would be well served to understand the environment that they're operating in. and start playing by the rules. >> elliot, why would the footage the family saw, 20 seconds, need to be, in their words, in the words of the police, redacted? i mean, does that make sense to you? >> i mean, it does, to some extent. again, if there were, like, innocent bystanders there, minors. if there were people, perhaps, under investigation at the time. but it is just perplexing, anderson. and, look. here's the problem. this -- this is not -- we are not even talking about the law now. this is just straight-up pr. if they were able to release the 20 seconds, and they clearly have the rest of the footage. it was, very much, in their interest to release the rest of the video to the public. because what they did, if you saw that press conference today, those lawyers put on a clinic for how to take back the story. and the police, the -- the sheriff's department just basically failed there. and so, now, by creating a vacuum as to what else is in the rest of that footage, th

certification and execution prior to coming to the department of the environment i was doing similar role with the human services agency. and i was really excited to take the opportunity to join the department of environment because during my career i actually had worked at an e.p.a. detection program, a chemical plant in the southern united states. and so i saw an opportunity to come to environment, i was eager to jump on it so that i could expand my journey with environmental work. and so thank you for extending and for letting me accept the offer. >> trinity, david, jeff, these are the best and the brightest and for us to have them on our team is phenomenal. and every single person in the department is thrilled that they are -- they are part of this team. and that concludes my director's report. >> president stephenson: welcome, everybody. you will have to come back when we can actually meet in person so we can applaud you appropriately in real life. commissioners, any questions or comments? all right. let's open it up to public comment, katie. >> clerk: all right. i'll put the instructions for making a public comme