my guest tonight is the head of the environmental protection agency. don't tell her i-- the show with a tire fire. please welcome lisa jackson. cheers plaus thank you so much, miss jackson. okay. ma'am, are you the current administrator of the epa, environmental protection agency, i'll bite. environment. why do we need it? well, we already have it. the environment is the air that you breathe. >> yeah. >> the water that you drink. >> uh-huh, i don't drink a lot of water. i drink mostly bollinger. >> the land where you live, where your kid goes to school, maybe where you play. >> yeah. >> so if it's dirty f it's unhealthy f the air is full of pollution you can't be healthy. >> stephen: i mean, but i've got my own kind of environment because my audi s5 has climate control. i get in there, closed the windowsnd i can control my climate, heated seats, the whole nine yards why do we collectively have to worry about all of our environment it thaunds like we're all sharing the planet. that sounds socialist. (laughter) >> well, we are. we are sharing the plan et

obviously the environmental protection agency, both in terms of the water issues, use of wetlands where they have concurrent jurisdiction with the corps of engineers, air permitting, endangered species around the port are all issues we're going to have to deal with. >> narrator: but first, pebble must deal with the state of alaska. all of the state agencies, from conservation to fish and game, will be coordinated by the large mine permitting team at the department of natural resources. >> the permitting process for pebble will be a big challenge. i don't think there's any doubt that it will be the largest, thickest environmental impact statement ever done in alaska, maybe the nation, maybe the world. >> it would be far and away larger than anything else that's been developed thus far. it will change our world once the applications are actually submitted. >> this is the inspection report from pebble. >> narrator: alaska has a long history of mining, with some of the world's most industry-friendly regulations. the sheer scale of the pebble project means that many of the agencies reviewing

it was richard nixon who created the environmental protection agency. ronald reagan went after led and gasoline. george h. w. bush went after acid rain. these were republican presidents everyone. i dare say they would not recognize some of the members of their own party in the house today and they certainly wouldn't vote alongside them. the worst of this dark vision has not yet come to pass only because the senate has either voted down or refused to act on the worst impulses of the house but let's be clear. votes counted. they are how we know what really matters to the people we elected. they are how we hold our officials accountable to the public. after all the rhetoric and political cheap shots have died down, votes are all we have got. in this case more than 200 of them. forty-two years ago when we pause as a nation to mark the first earth day our environment faced grave and gathering threats. we had seen oil washing ashore in santa barbara. los angeles was the smog capital of the world. the waterways of our heartland where so desecrated and polluted

first of all, i am truly disappointed with the environmental protection agency. this is an agency that is supposed to be oversight, we believe as people that superman is going to come rescue us and that is the first thing that people need to do. politics for me has no place here. this is a human rights issue. politics does not play with people that way. that is what we need to make it. because it is going to be all of our crisis. i think that there is a lot of things that could be done and the first thing i work with communities on is to leave the politics out and here is why they can do that. they're now affected. what they see is what they believe. they have to take measures no matter what politics are going to do at this moment. begin to save their own house and their own family and that is what is important to them. i am out in communities all day long throughout the united states of america. the frogs turning into hermaphrodites. they see green water. i did not grow in an era where we thought that was acceptable. these people at a community level are startin

twice as much as it spends ten years ago and more than the entire budget of the country's environmental protection agency for instance the us government keeps way too many secrets even even government entities responsible for evaluating these things like the office for government information oversight. these officers have may have done studies and said well you know a lot of this material doesn't need to be protected so it's in many ways it's a huge waste of money u.s. security agencies regularly fight in courts to keep volumes of decades old documents classified like the files on the cia's bay of pigs operation in cuba when the u.s. tried to overthrow fidel castro in one thousand nine hundred sixty one but the sharp increase in secrecy over the last decade is due to america's expanding counterterrorism programs rather than on classified historical files the power that the national security state has acquired under president obama is greater than any time history. during the cold war period the government indicted only three people for disclosing classified information however the obama administration al

independent safety standard should be developed so the commission has recommended the environmental protection agency and the nuclear regulatory commission which this committee has jurisdiction over should begin working together to define an appropriate process for developing a generic disposal facility safety standard and associate the implementing regulations. the fifth recommendation relates to prompt efforts to develop one or more consolidated storage facilities. developing consolidated storage capacity would allow the federal government to begin the orderly transfer of spent fuel from reactor sites to safe and secured centralized facilities independent of the schedule for operating a permanent repository. the arguments in favor of consolidated storage are strongest for stranded spent fuel, shut down plant sites of which there are ten across the country. stranded fuel should be first in line for the transfer to consolidate a facility so the plant sites can be completely decommissioned and put to other beneficial uses. the availability of consolidated storage will also provide valuable flexibility

it's designed to break open the stomach of insects and kill them right now according to environmental protection agency there's no impact on human cells and it's destroyed during digestion they got it wrong february of this year journal of applied toxicology they took the bt toxin out of monsanto's corn applied it to human cells it poked holes in the cells causing leakage the same kind of holes that may kill insects last year in canada they found ninety three percent of pregnant women had bt toxin in their blood as well as the blood of eighty percent of their unborn fetuses so if bt toxin is drilling holes in our interests in the walls and causing disruption of the lining of our digestive track then it could be causing the problems that we're seeing now you mention antibiotics the other type of g.m. crop are roundup ready crops engineered not to die when sprayed with roundup so it's the weed killing technology the roundup ends up in the food the roundup is an antibiotic we eat the antibiotic and not only has all these you know cancer promoting and you can describe the under construction problem propert

what it really comes down to, you remember before there was an official with the environmental protection agencyed because he spoke out and he said their view is you take three people and you crucify the first three people in the business community you come across. and nobody else -- you charge them with criminal charges. in effect crucify them, was his words. and nobody else will even think about even messing with you. that's the kind of campaign the obama campaign wants to run against mitt romney. these are the tactics they're employing. 2008 post partisan. we need to rise above. barack obama, he's given up looking for work like everybody else in this economy. this is such a different candidate in 2012. he's just clinging to his job. i don't think it's going to work. >> ari -- sorry, paul, do you think it's a different candidate? >> yes, it's a different election, absolutely. but, you know, it amuses me, i have to say, i'm an older man, i'm 51. when i was a kid, conservatives were tough. it was john wayne. and ronald reagan. everyone said liberals were wimps, it was alan alda and mike dukakis.

this out >> bombshell dropped by the mayor tonight details in the letter from illinois environmental protection agency suggesting the cancer scare local water appears to be overblown tough to find a lot of people who drink the water. who actually believe that. sounding like 180 degree turn the sauk village story residents turning up all day with visible anchor in writing to 90 illinois epa says to hold on the level onvinyl chloride no restrictions on the use of water from the wells. water could be used for drinking they think cooking or other normal use. the mayor broke the good news packed public meeting tonight simply cannot believe this. >> they tell me i cannot make ice but the water cannot make anything hot with the water what to do? >> business owners a mandatory meeting told to use the water or nothing and not even washing dishes. doing everything we possibly can >> sums up the way residents here feel. told reporters getting closer source of the contamination yet to offer any specifics live >> he swore an oath to uphold the law now chicago officer could go to jail for breaking this edward howar

the state environmental protection agency said that the vinyl chloride levels are still detected in thehis causes kidney liver damage and increases risk for cancer officials are working on emergency planning and are providing residents with bottled water they said they have not identified the source of the vinyl chloride ... alternative processes will not be complete in infrastructure building in time and it will be at great cost ... the reporting was far worse than expected ... there is another alternative which is air stripping quicker and more efficient but the village has to approve this ... there wasn't much to say to the business owners this morning >>the only thing i asked from the village i was here a long time i would think there would of watch out for us when all is said and done if they don't do that i have to weigh my options about continuing to do business here >>we're getting a song and dance they did not answer questions honestly they don't want anyone to know anything ... >>volunteers are getting together to work up a plan on how to best distribute the bottled water to r

off the illinois environmental protection agency has outlined the problem vinyl chloride is in the waterat a dangerous level ... >>we're doing everything possible we are working with the attorney general and other agencies to comply we want to ensure that the wells and the water that we provide the citizens will be healthy ... >>while there is minimal risk with daily exposure and just enough vinyl chloride over decades can increase the risk of cancer the problem first surfaced one year ago and " boiled over years ago when the well into the camp chemical was disabled that's commonly used in making plastics ... but now there are two other wells that are suspect ... >>now find doubt there are still contaminants in the other two wells is troubling and ridiculous >>residents are anchored over high water bills with this threatening substance still there ... >>they ought to be subsidizing what we're doing here it's a lot on our budgets ... >>there's a referendum to build a new system to tap water from lake michigan it will take time to build and it made double the expenditures for consumers in

the environmental protection agency has dropped a rule that would have created huge livestock farms to report on how they handle waste. the epa announced that they would collect the information from other sources. concentrated animal feeding operation with generate more waste and environmentalists pushed for the proposed law to enforce the clean water act. there are reports tonight that former penn state football coach joe paterno secretly negotiated an early retirement package after he was subpoenaed to testify before the grand jury investigating jerry sandusky. the new york times reports the package includes millions of dollars in benefits for his surviving family that continue for years. montero's family says that penn state suggested the retirement package and some of those provisions, such as use of penn state 's private plane were in previous contracts gross margin an artists had removed the hallow depicting the mural. the artist added the halo after paterno's death in january and added a blue-ribbon to paterno's coat to support victims of child abuse. >>> 300 volunteers took par

has been in the bill which for years and years >> within the last two weeks by illinois environmental protection agencylevels of vinyl chloride dangerous on acceptable levels. even exposure to low levels of the chemical over long periods of time can cause impaired immune system damage the nervous system libbers and kidneys as well as increased risk for liver cancer. >> it is scary lived here all of these years drink the water now i drink bottled water but i did four years down the latest turn ongoing battle over the water heater in the spring of president said yes to bring in lake michigan water solution the mayor wants but which may not take too long and to be too expensive to satisfy the state because of current contamination levels. >> you can go to court and ask the judge to issue an order that says it village needs to provide bottled water to residents and come up with the plant immediately that addresses the on safe drinking water in the sauk village >> meeting with the illinois attorney general's office maintains he needs to wait for direction on where to go from here. batt but today did not rea

so that's why i say, thank goodness for the epa-- the environmental protection agency.hey made the air cleaner than it used to be. when i was a kid in this town, you couldn't open windows because soot would come in. now we can. thank goodness for water pollution rules. the river just outside the studio was once disgusting. but now, it's different. each here, within sight of the empire state building, within a short disabs of millions of people flushing, i am willing to do this. [splash]. >> i lived to tell about it. the hudson is totally swimmable now. it's great that government has cleaned up the air and the water. but now that they have accomplished that, okay, we have done most of the good we can do and did they shrink? no. the government never does that. they always want to do more. and that upsets one medical doctor. he says the epa now kills people. this doctor happens to be a u.s. senator from wyoming. what do you mean killing people? >> they have come out with a report, the environmental and public works committee of the united states senate. the report is red t

that is why i say thank goodness for the epa the environmental protection agency.hey made the air cleaner than it used to be. when i was a kid we couldn't open windows because soot would come in. and the river outside was once disgusting but now it's different. >> even here within sight of the empire state building. within the short distance of millions of people flushing i'm willing to do this. >> i lived to tell about it. hudson is swimable now. it's great that government has cleaned up the air and the water, but now they have accomplished that. okay, we've done most of the good we can do and shrink. government never does. that they always wanted to do more and that upsets one medical doctor. the epa now kills people. this doctor happens to be a u.s. senator, senator john barosso from wyoming. what do you mean? >> i'm a member of the environmental committee and red tape is making americans sick because of the high unemployment rate. when people are out of work for longs periods of time as we are seeing. those folks are out of work that want to go to work more inc

so that's why i say, thank goodness for the epa-- the environmental protection agency. they made the air cleaner than it used to be. when i was a kid in this town, you couldn't open windows because soot would come in. now we can. thank goodness for water pollution rules. the river just outside the studio was once disgusting. but now, it's different. each here, within sight of the empire state building, within a short disabs of millions of people flushing, i am willing to do this. [splash]. >> i lived to tell about it. the hudson is totally swimmable now. it's great that government has cleaned up the air and the water. but now that they have accomplished that, okay, we have done most of the good we can do and did they shrink? no. the government never does that. they always want to do more. and that upsets one medical doctor. he says the epa now kills people. this doctor happens to be a u.s. senator from wyoming. what do you mean killing people? >> they have come out with a report, the environmental and public works committee of the united states senate. the report is red

that's why i would say thank goodness for the epa, the environmental protection agency.ade the air cleaner than it used to be. when i was a kid in this town you couldn't open windows, the suit would come in. water ol pougs rules thank goodness. the water outside of the studio was once disgusting now that's not true. within a short distance of millions of people flushing, i am willing to do this. i lived to tell about it. the hudson is totally swimable now. so it's great that government has cleaned up the air in the water. but how did they accomplish that? did they say we have done most of the good we do and shrink? no, government never does that. they always want to do more. that upsets one medical doctor. he says the epa now kills people. what do you mean killing people? >> i came out with a report because i am a member of the environment public works committee. the report is red tape is making americans sick. it is the result of the high unemployment rate. people lose their jobs and are out of work for long periods of time as we are seeing right now with over 8 percent

the group called ep has the backing of many electronics manufacturers and the environmental protection agencyobservers believe apple may have designed its batteries with a flaw violation. >>> san francisco mayor ed lee had this reaction on twitter glad to see apple products back on epeat registry focusing on environmental sustainability, leadership in green invasion economy. you may recall the city was halting it's purchase of apple products over the environmental issue. >>> in the south bay today dozens of families spent hours waiting in line. they weren't an add -- they weren't at an amusement park, they were waiting to sign up their children for a backpack with supplies. that was maria, she arrived at 3:00 this morning. she was one of thousands of children and parents who lined up overnight. they came to register for the hack a bag registry. >> i'm not working right now, i haven't been working for two years. i had a surgery and haven't gotten back on my feet. it helps me. >> reporter: sacred heart planned to sign up 1,000 families but when they reached that number, there were still a lot o

well, the environmental protection agency of the federal leha tnt, itsnnual budts on the other side this debate, as opposed to the 553, are 32 free market environmenl aril.ns,ndtheiss got? $9.5 billion versus 38 million. mike bauer did the arithmetic for me, that's 249 tis. [lte trgt?e, just think of the environmental argument. now, obama has said we told the new yorker thathe cterpiece of his condadston in bim change. now, it wasn't just two, three years ago that the leading clate scientists in the world were exposed for cooking the fayi t en climate change because it was going against them. we have been in a cooling for ten years. so you might think this is a little problematic make, assume it as fact and me e ereyo mira. th theower.an not only do they have the 9.5 billion in assets, these left-wing foundations, but, of course, when democratic gislators put through goal wh i do u tnk they fund? they provide money for, quote, environmental organizations which turns out to benti-free market, anti-capitalist, controyour-life, left-wing hochroental ornizaons. 's $570 million annually. it's