environmental protection agency. mr. wheeler is qualified for the position. he spent 25 years working in environmental policy and served as a career employee of the agency, a staffer on capitol hill, a consultant in the private sector, and now in a leadership role at the epa. i believe andrew wheeler would make an excellent administrator of the environmental protection agency. with that i call this hearing to order. today the committee will hear testimony on the environmental protection agency work to protect the water we drink, the air we breathe, and the communities we call home. it is my pleasure to welcome back to the committee andrew wheeler in his new role as acting administrator of the epa. as you know, the way this committee works is sometimes there are roll call. i understand there are five rollcall votes starting at 11:00 this morning. there will be members coming and going during the hearing process. i appreciate your indulgence as we come in and out. mr. wheeler has served on this committee in a number of capacities, most recently as staff director

i believe andrew wheeler would make excellent this figure of the environmental protection agency. with that, i call this hearing to order. the committee will hear only on the environmental protection agency's work to protect the air we breathe and the communities we call and it's my pleasure to welcome back to the committee andrew wheeler in his new role as acting administrator of the epa. first, as you know the way this committee works, sometimes there are rollcall votes. i understand i call the hotel so there will be members coming and going during the hearing process so i appreciate your indulgence as we come in and out. mister wheeler has served on this committee in a number of capacities, most recently as a director. it's only getting our community the first you testified before. presidential has come to office, his administration had made it a priority to pursue a seas to protect the nation's environment and allow the economy to grow. just last week, we saw the ministrations growth and jobs policies are leading to incredible economic growth. america's economy grew at an impre

environmental protection agency who then declared that roundup and glad to say does not cause cancer in spite of overwhelming evidence that it does the plaintive also showed that they manipulated the data in their research and they ignored a lot of research that they had seen over decades pointing to the fact that roundup and life is a cause cancer yet monsanto argues that run dop is harmless if used properly and that they have scientific research to back at best and the argument with that goes that well if you have rough poison or enough goes into your skin for instance it could be a carcinogenic as well what's your opinion on this product itself. well if you look at the research they fed rats for example a tiny amount of around equal to three one four hundred thirty seven thousand times the amount allowed by the environmental protection agency in our us water supply a tiny amount and it caused nonalcoholic fatty liver disease tiny amounts of gladness it caused tumors to grow in an experiment done in asia we have evidence after evidence in fact the most comprehensive evaluation of g

bush where she served as administrator of the environmental protection agency for that she was the republican governor of new jersey the first female governor of that state but recently she has taken her party to task and has also gone public with her call for republicans to put the g.o.p. label aside and join her in calling for president donald trump to step down. let's find out why it is. good seeing you again you reason your way there larry you recently wrote an article in which you said i'm a lifelong republican i have campaigned in one as a member of the party i have served more than one republican president we must put aside the g.o.p. label as hard as that may be and demonstrate the leadership of our country needs by calling on the president to step down what led you to do that well the final straw was the behavior in europe when he was there for the e.u. and nato and same to reject our allies actually embarrassed several of them and then embraced putin and refused to take him on over the fact that russia was meddling in our elections and still is at that point he was saying it was a s

environmental protection agency says roundups active ingredient is safe buster after much debate e.u. countries renewed a five year license but france says it plans to ban its use within three years only a handful of countries globally have stopped its use of dollars shiva here's an ecologist and activist who has been campaigning against monsanto and has taken it to court in india she says the california trial sets a precedent as the case has global implications and every aspect of the sandal has acted with malice aggression and. they did it in india under all that's why i salute them in ninety nine i'm still finding those cases they collect general as g.'s trauma hours driving locusts and of the three hundred thousand pounds they want and the captain bear to destress and suicide. extracting nearly seventy billion dollars of the legitimate royalty when they didn't have a prat that case they do not know how i got out of india and appealing in the supreme court opinion and intervening in that dream not today e.b.'s totally captive to the corporations that it should be regulated and the

this pipeline was the first major test of the environmental protection agency which had been created in the nixon administration and grew out of the growing recognition that the environment needed to be protected. it was the geological survey and others who said you can't do that because of the poor soil conditions and you need to elevate the pipeline. so this was developed in response to environmental worries that if you wanted this to last and not damage the environment, you had to take a bath of special precautions. these are designed to help keep the soil frozen far underneath where we are standing and to keep it stable. it is set up here to move back and forth in case of an earthquake in they do move the pipeline from side to side. but it's a fairly strong and good environmental record. malcolm of the notable exception is the exxon valdez oil spill which is not a modern thing at all. it was a major catastrophe. while that was not on the land portion of the 800-mile project that was a perk of the system. to understand the time that it was built, it's important to go back and reme

environmental protection agency says round up the active ingredient is safe last year after much debate eve countries were new to this five year license but france says it plans to ban its use within three years and your handful of countries globally have stopped its use. and an achiever is an ecologist an activist who has long campaigned against bond santa and she joins us via skype from addition in india very good to have you with this is a pretty damning verdict isn't it not so much the amount of money that's been awarded in damages but for the jury said about one santo that acted with malice and oppression. well i was in the jury i totally stand with them because on every aspect when sandal has acted with malice oppression and they've entered india for a lot that's why i sued them in ninety nine i'm still fighting those cases they collected dry as g.'s trauma farmers driving eighty four percent of the three hundred thousand pounds. one in the cotton belt to destress and suicide extracting nearly seventeen billion dollars of a legitimate royalty when they didn't have a practice that

the environmental protection agency has a different view it says the houses were built in the greenbelt illegally but the new head of the agency does admit that in the past there were hardly any checked there we're not supposed to be and that's why i say it was due to weak governance because nobody was supposed to be housed yeah. according to environmental activist high as they say residents were also to blame for last year's catastrophe she says she tried to warn people just to. weeks before the disaster. it will be a clinton downed trees and the forest to beat up with death dead people we have bonnie chap called the people we at mines told us in that particular area they also do a wildfire within the forest so what's happening it's a weekend this way and because the smells will leak and that's one of the reasons several factors contributed to the disaster last year inefficient off citizens that we can or the risks deforestation a massive population growth on the hills of freetown additionally climate change has been causing much less frequent but stronger rain falls that is why op ser

four mpg by twenty twenty five the proposed rule was officially published by the trump environmental protection agency yesterday and is out for a sixty day comment period if adopted the rule would freeze the so-called cafe standards that corporate average fuel economy standards in place at thirty seven miles per gallon in twenty twenty one barring any other further improvement through twenty twenty six there will also officially start of the trumpet ministrations legal assault. in the state of california climates paul climates policy by revoking an obama era waiver that allow the state to set their own carbon dioxide fuel economy standards at a higher level than the federal standards and we spoke on the program about these important policy financial matters in the past and will do so again in the coming days the old advertising slogan for visa it's everywhere you want to be won't ring is true if a plan by the largest u.s. supermarket goes forward later this month we all know about those pesky swipe fees that credit card companies charge vendors and how they are a constant source of friction well now t

environmental protection agency says roundups active ingredient is safe last year after much debate eve countries renewed a five year license but france says it plans to balance he's within three years only a handful of countries globally have stopped its use of donna she is an ecologist and activist who campaigns against monsanto she says the california trial sets a precedent as they've been santé case has global implications and every aspect of the sandal has with malice aggression and they entered india and for all that's why i sued them in ninety nine i'm still finding those cases they've collected trial jeev drawn out. driving well will send jobs at three hundred thousand. one in the capital back. to destress and suicide. extracting nearly seventy billion dollars of their legitimate royalty when they didn't have a practice that case they did last in the high court of india and appealing in the supreme court opinion and intervening in that case to bring no today the e.p.a.'s totally captive to the corporations that it should be regulating and the incentive terminal was really to bri

environmental protection agency or e.p.a. andrew wheeler signed a plan to allow increased greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired power plants the plan cynically titled the affordable clean energy rule rolls back president obama's clean power plan and delegate power to reget to various states to regulate coal states of course are expected to go easy on coal under the trump plan allowing a net increase of the emissions that are quickly changing our world for the worse but technical analysis behind the rule shows that an additional fourteen hundred people will actually perish will die by twenty thirty if the plan is adopted group seeking to keep the planet viable for human beings wouldn't that be nice as the beach boys thing hope to use the two thousand and seven supreme court case that ordered e.p.a. to regulate greenhouse gases as their legal tool to block the trump administration's plans in court and there's also politics of energy regarding climate change in australia as conservative prime minister malcolm turnbull today a

health organization has found in the past that by phosphate probably causes cancer but the environmental protection agency has not ruled on the matter as yet on some toes says it will appeal the case and continues to maintain that its products are not carcinogenic but there are more than five thousand cases concerning the weed killer and it's a fix pending and following this decision the congo faces the possibility of more massive payouts to come i cannot al-jazeera. so there's been quite a bit for action online from agent orange and d.d. d.d.t. to genetically modified crops monsanto has long been associated controversial a controversial other chemicals for years so plenty of people online a welcoming the trial outcome and some are even calling it a victory for all of those fighting the huge conglomerates that have power money and political persuasion as well but best selling author the same target tweeted this isn't about life or say it's about the manipulation of science by corporations and he added that bullying scientists does not pay but eugene who's a surgeon is among others who are using science to

what we are going to do is bring in current environmental protection agency chief andrew wheeler. he is here live on why he thinks this is the right thing to do for cheap energy, jobs and the environment of america. >>> plus, trade talks in place for another $16 billion on chinese exports but one crafty ceo is spinning a yarn that will have most of her clients coughing up more dough. maybe you are one of the customers of joanne fabrics. the ceo is here first on fox business, what she plans to say to the trade representatives of the trump administration. plus, the future of the american work force. free online trading platform and steps to privatization. let's start the countdown. liz: to that breaking news i just referenced. the associated press is reporting right now that president trump's former personal attorney michael cohen has not only reached a plea deal, but cnn is reporting that he surrendered to the fbi, will plead guilty to multiple counts of campaign finance violations. everybody was wondering to what was he going to plea. to campaign finance violations, according to o

new at 6:00 california farmworkers are claiming victory tonight after a judge told the environmental protection agency it must ban a chemical linked to birth defects. d themselves to the yday as they h >> reporter: the court order placing a national ban on the pesticide chlorpy rophos was proclaimed a victory for workers as they harvest our food from the fields. >> we have fought for this for a very long time, way back to when cesar chavez was part of the movement and actually started the movement. this is something they've been working on for a long period of time to try to make sure we ban not just this particular pesticide but many pesticides for the farmworker families. >> reporter: the 2-9 ruling by the 9th court of appeals is a blow to the trump administration's environmental protection agency which refused to remove the pesticide despite mounting evidence that it was harmful to children and especially children and fetuses where it can lead to brain damage and illnesses. harvesting the fruits and vegetables, chemical drift up to a 1/2 mile away from an application, but studies show consumers wit

science being a public it's only the companies though is it because we know that the environmental protection agency that is the e.p.a. it's also said in the past the a good life a state is safe when used carefully well yes of course and the bulk of the research that they have relied on to do that has been presented to them funded by fastow and others in the chemical industry all right so we will leave it there we thank you very much for speaking to us from australia you're watching the news grid and if you're watching us on facebook live you will find out how now rather about the prison inmates being paid next to nothing to help for. just a moment a lebanese politician pushing a bill that would legalize medical marijuana supporters of the proposal face could be the fix the country's economy needs a story for the brain. allan the big shop attentions returned to the caucasus you can see the white cloud here and also took past on the far north of iran if you're really lucky they probably you won't be there want to shasta potentially around the caspian but i think iran is going to go towards tashkent a

but actions taken over and over by the environmental protection agency may do just the opposite.he rolling back of vehicle emission standards for one and now trump critics -- or critics of the epa are worried that a new rule on asbestos can be more exposure. former governor todd whitman is back with me to discuss. she's also of course the former head of the epa. deregulations has been a central focus of this administration. in some cases, it makes sense. some regulations don't work. but in this one, getting back in the asbestos game. why would we want such a thing? >> no, you shouldn't. the only good news about the scott pruitt tenancy was he was more bluster and he'd say things and he'll roll back things to make headlines but he didn't understand how complicated legally it was and he didn't go through the right procedures so a lot of those are being thrown out by the courts. andrew wheeler knows how the process works. i think he's a much more stable human being. i think he's working more with the agency than before. so -- >> but why would he want to do this? >> asbestos is just

that a senate hearing on the operations of the environmental protection agency. >> this week on q&a, discussion on american history and the u.s. congress. this program was recorded at the robert c byrd center in shepherdstown, west virginia. had to have a dinner people in history, say four or five people, who would you have at the t

. >> woodruff: it is not well known to t general public yet, but the environmental protection agencyunder president trump wants to change which scientific studies can be used by the federal government tregulate industry. the administration-- and business voices-- say studies should only be used if all of the data is publicly available and transparent. but, many scientists and researchers say doinould violate privacy protections for patients in studies. t is issue is now playing a long-running battle over whether to ban pesticidesthat harm babies and children. miles o'brien looks at the science and debateehind it all, part of our weekly series on the "leading edge" of science, medicine and technology. >> o'brien: when fidelia morales moved into her dream home nestled among orange groves c ifornia's central valley 12 years ago, she didn't knowul much about agrre. >> we didn't know that they werh fumigating wite huge machines, that they were spraying these extreme strong chemicals. >> o'brien: it happens on the calm margins of the day. when the wind lays down, growers gear up, to spray

the environmental protection agency's new proposal would weaken restrictions on carbon emissions from coal-fired power plants and give states more control over regulations. we'll have more on the impact of the e.p.a.'s rollback right after the summary. microsoft said it had foiled the latest attempt by russian hackers to infiltrate u.s. politics ahead of november's midterm elections. the tech giant announced that it had removed fake versions of the websites of the u.s. senate and two conservative think-tanks, a so-called "spear phishing" campaign it said was mounted by the same russian group responsible for meddling in the 2016 election. kremlin spokesman dmitry peskov denied that russia was behind the attack. >> ( translated ): we do not know what hackers are talking about. we do not know what is meant by influence on elections. we hear confirmations from america that there was no influence on elections, who exactly are they talking about? >> woodruff: microsoft's president said there were no signs the hackers were successful in obtaining users' credentials. president trump's supreme

the amount is below the maximum recommended by the environmental protection agency but the groups maintainels are deceptive. general mills says it's confident in the accuracy of its labels and settled the lawsuit to avoid the cost and distraction of litigation. the nation's largest grocery chain says it plans to phase out the use of plastic bags by 2025. kroger says it's customers expressed concerns about the impact of plastic bags on the environment. the chain orders about 6 billion bags each year for its stores in 35 states and the district of columbia. brown paper bags will be available for free and they will be able to buy reusable bags for 1 to $2. what's believed to be the first craft beer hotel opens in ohio this week. the dog house opens in columbus with 32 rooms. some overlook the brew dog brewery. it will offer craft beer spa treatments including a hot tub filled with brew dogs ipa. each room has a fridge stocked with beer and cold draft on tap. you know i travel a lot and now you know what's on my bucket list. >> i was going to say it but i didn't want to put you on the spot. bu

health organization has found in the past that by phosphate probably causes cancer but the environmental protection agency has not ruled on the matter as yet on some toes says it will appeal the case and continues to maintain that its products are not carcinogenic. but there are more than five thousand cases concerning the weed killer and it's a fix pending and following this decision. faces the possibility of more massive payouts to come by canada al-jazeera. has now called as an activist who campaigns against monsanto she says the california trial sets a precedent as the monsanto case has global implications and every aspect but santow has acted with malice aggression and they've entered india unfrocked that's why i salute them in ninety nine i'm still fighting those cases they collected dry as jeeves trauma farmers driving eighty four percent of the three hundred thousand pounds. one in the cotton better to distress and suicide extracting nearly seventy billion dollars of the legitimate royalty when they didn't have a plan that case they do not act in the high court of india and appealing in the suprem

laura:in ga mccarthy was the head of the environmental protection agency under president obama. edshe jo me a short time ago. the trump administration wants to weaken those rules that werey a signature pof the obama administration. what is your response? gina: what it really is is a giveay to foreign markets as well as the oil and gas sector. this is all about making sure that the oil industry continues to make money at the expense of american carmakers, thican -- at the expense of consumers, at the expense of our planet and health and well-being. but i want to ashare you that i read this rule and it doesn't follow the signs, follow science,t follow the follow the law. it is going to present years of challenge because they are questioning and weakening a national program tt has benefits for everybody in this country as well as the planet. laura: the trump administration is claiming that having cars ich are very fuel-efficient will be unsafe because it will lead to more drivers on the road and therefore more crashes. what do you make of that? gina: it is a little bit of a bafflin

sourly and working all hours of the day, and part-time >> we go live to capitol hill as environmental protection agency administrator an andrew wheeler will be testifying for the first time after scott pruitt last month. live coverage on c-span. i would encourage president trump to nominate andrew wheeler to the administrator of the. mr. wheeler is qualified for the position. he spent 25 years working in environmental policy and served as a career employee of the agency, a staffer on capitol hill, a consultant in the private sector, and now in a leadership role at the epa. i believe andrew wheeler would make an excellent administrator of the envirnt

where the environmental protection agency is now considering allowing companies to introduce as best into their products in a new way andrew what's the story. well a lot of people are angry about this proposal from the u.s. environmental protection agency it's called the significant new use rule and will would allow special uses of the natural mineral now especially this is particularly known for its fireproofing abilities and pretty much everyone used to use it in construction but then in the one nine hundred seventy s. the world health organization announced that all types of a specificity cause lung throat and ovarian cancer as well as other diseases just by breathing in their tiny fibers and because of that at least sixty countries including the u.k. and australia have banned the mineral outright the u.s. instead strictly regulates it but this new proposal from the u.s. environmental agency would weaken those regulations by letting companies find new and creative ways to use a specificity in what he serves battery parts and vinyl tiles just to name a few of the products that coul

over at the e.p.a., the environmental protection agency, they're rolling back fuel standards for cars. that's a double loser, bad for the environment, bad for the consumer who is going to have to pony you have $1 trillion more at the at the pump. and while the federal government is abandoning leadership, they're also browbeating the states to do the same thing. the trump administration now threatens california's ability to set its own air quality standards under the clean air act, which affects 12 other states, including oregon. how many times, colleagues, have we heard senators come to the floor of the united states senate virtually pound on their chest and say, the states are the laboratories of democracy? basically, on climate change, senator whitehouse, what the trump administration is saying is they're for states' rights if they think the state is right. that is their position on climate. so, it's clear we're not seeing any real movement from the trump administration. two weeks ago the president tweeted several times that water from northern california is being diverted to the pa

i1988, after the federal environmental protection agency and new york state conducted thousands of soil, air and water tinests, the state dete the areas directly east of love canal were not safe to live. but the areas directly north and west were. >> we're going to go directly into the emergency declaration area now. >> thompson: mike base is a spokesperson for the e.p.a., which helped oversee the rehabilitation of more than 200 abandoned homes just north of love canal. >> each one of the homes has new siding, new roofs, new windows, new furnaces. >> thompson: today the neighborhood has beerenamed ack creek village. 39 wells monitor the groundwater nearby. it's literally just a street that separates the habitable from the non- bitable. >> that's all. >> thompson: how do we know that it's actually safe to live here? >> well, our monitoring wells and our sampling that was taken back in the 1980's and '90's truly reflects the answer to that question. >> thompson: but many current and former residents aren't convinced the area's safe, like ella kenny, whose seven-year- old jon son died in 1

. >> renewed scrutiny this morning for former epa chief scott pruitt, head of the environmental protection agencynth after facing backlash over how he spent tax dollars. chief among the complaints, a $43,000 soundproof phone booth he installed in his office. according to a new report from the washington post, pruitt barely even used the booth according to phone logs. he made only one outgoing call to the white house in january and that only lasted five minutes. >> an art admirer at a portuguese museum may have admired a little too closely. according to a local paper, a 60-year-old man is recovering after falling into an installation by the artist anish kapur. the hole is black giving the ill ustian of a bottomless void. luckily for the museum goer, it's not bottomless, just 8 feet deep. the man ignored warning signs and fell into it. he is expected to be okay. you have to be careful when you go to the museum these days. >> i think he was looking for the port hole. he's looking for the worm hole to another galaxy and just tried to ignore it. that's impressive. the artist, though, is the same one t

environmental protection agency or e.p.a. andrew wheeler signed a plan to allow increased greenhouse gas emissions from coal fired power plants the plan cynically titled the affordable clean energy rule rolled back president obama's clean power plan and delegate power to reget to various states to regulate coal states of course are expected to go easy on coal under the trump plan allowing a net increase of the emissions that are quickly changing our world for the worse but technical analysis behind the rule shows that an additional fourteen hundred people will actually perish will die by twenty thirty if the plan is adopted group seeking to keep the planet viable for human beings wouldn't that be nice as the beach boys thing hope to use the two thousand and seven supreme court case that ordered e.p.a. . to regulate greenhouse gases as their legal tool to block the trumpet ministrations plant in court and there's also politics of energy regarding climate change in australia as conservative prime minister malcolm turnbull today

health organization has found in the past life phosphate probably causes cancer but the environmental protection agency has not ruled on the matter as yet on some toes says it will appeal the case and continues to maintain that its products are not cost of the jennet but there are more than five thousand cases concerning the weed killer and it's a fix pending and following this decision the congo faces the possibility of more massive payouts to come mike hanna al-jazeera. most of india's carola state is on high alert after at least thirty four people died during one of the region's worst floods on record heavy rains are expected during the monsoon season but this is downpours ravaged farmlands and forced more than thirty one thousand people to evacuate for the first time state authorities have opened the gates of twenty five reservoirs to prevent any breaches. in mali people are preparing to vote on sunday in a presidential runoff that's expected to return. to power for another five years is facing opposition though from somalia sissay who's trailed behind him in the first round of voting this round ta

four mpg by twenty twenty five the proposed rule was officially published by the trump environmental protection agency yesterday and is out for a sixty day comment period if adopted the rule would freeze the so-called cafe standards that corporate average fuel economy standards in place at thirty seven miles per gallon in twenty twenty one barring any other further improvements through twenty twenty six there will also officially start of the truck administration's legal assault on the state of california climates paul climate's policy by revoking an obama era waiver that allowed the state to set their own carbon dioxide fuel economy standards at a higher level than the federal standards and we spoke on a program about these important policy financial matters in the past and will do so again in the coming days. the old advertising slogan for visa it's everywhere you want to be won't ring is true if a plan by the largest us supermarket goes forward later this month we all know about those pesky swipe fees that credit card companies charge vendors and how they are a constant source of friction well now

i'm just having a look at what the us environmental protection agency, the epa, says.ate is unlikely to cause cancer in humans. and these are authorities which have the task of keeping their citizens safe, and yet they're saying it doesn't cause cancer. the world health organization's top cancer committee determined in 2015 that glyphosate causes — is a probable human carcinogen, and definitely causes cancer to animals. also, where it is sprayed in high concentrations, there's an increase of cancer in the population. now, from the documents that were made public, we realise that monsanto had a lapdog in the epa working on its behalf, named jess rowland. and his name came up, and he had a deposition in the court, and it turns out that he was working on behalf of monsanto to suppress research, successfully, and he was in charge of the committee at the epa that determined that glyphosate was not carcinogenic. however, we also have a letter from a former colleague ofjess rowland, sending him a note saying i'm dying of cancer, and i want to make sure i've done what is right

four mpg by twenty twenty five the proposed rule was officially published by the trump environmental protection agency yesterday and is out for a sixty day comment period if adopted the rule would freeze the so-called cafe standards that corporate average fuel economy standards in place at thirty seven miles per gallon in twenty twenty one barring any other further improvement through twenty twenty six there will also officially start of the truck ministrations legal us. so on the state of california climates paul climate's policy by revoking an obama era waiver that allowed the state to set their own carbon dioxide fuel economy standards at a higher level than the federal standards and we spoke on a program about these important policy financial matters in the past and will do so again in the coming days. the old advertising slogan for visa it's everywhere you want to be won't ring is true if a plan by the largest u.s. supermarket goes forward later this month we all know about those pesky swipe fees that credit card companies charge vendors and how they are a constant source of friction well now tho

going back decades, how they manipulated the opinions and votes and policies of the us environmental protection agencyted them as if they were independent and even paid scientists who claimed they were independent and had no contact with monsanto. this came out in the trial, in addition to a very, very strong weight of evidence showing that glyphosate and roundup does in fa ct that glyphosate and roundup does in fact cause cancer, which is what the world health organization's top cancer committee determined two yea rs cancer committee determined two years ago. but the world health organization also carried out their own studies, various authorities have carried out independent studies and they say it is safe and the company, in spite of what you said, say it is safe for the public to use. say it is safe for the public to use. interesting that this came out in an eight—week trial. there were toxicologists and epidemiologists talking about the mechanism. the weight of the evidence was clear, a unanimous vote by the jury. i was there for the closing arguments and there for the closing arguments and the p

the fact that more than 800 scientific studies and reviews — and conclusions by the us environmental protection agencyitutes of health and regulatory authorities around the world — support the fact that glyphosate does not cause cancer, and did not cause mrjohnson‘s cancer", says monsanto. joining me now to discuss this further is seattle university law lecturer steven tapia. given that this is a row that has rumbled on for many years about whetherjoel whether glyphosate causes cancer, how has this case come to a relatively speedy conclusion? that's a great question. i don't know if there is for either party to up the process. litigation has its own path and if monsanto decide they want to appeal to the last appeal, this may take years before the plaintiff sees any kind of funds or relief. and the amount of funds or relief. and the amount of damages seems huge, $290 million, almost? california has a very strong tradition of product liability verdict that are extremely large and this is an example of whatjury is in california do. american product liability law is different from state to state. certain

human beings back in two thousand and fifteen here in the united states our very own environmental protection agency decreed the chemical was not likely to be carcinogenic to humans the san francisco chronicle reports that johnson's case is the first of about four thousand nationwide to go to trial against monsanto now a subsidiary of bayer and that if the jury finds monsanto responsible for johnson's cancer the two sides have agreed that he should receive two point three million in damages for lost wages medical expenses and other costs but that figure doesn't include the potential punitive damages which could reach four hundred million or more if the jury finds monsanto was recklessly or intentionally causing harm which johnson's lawyers believe they were by not putting warning labels on the product and actively fighting against any research that proves that lives of faith was it indeed carcinogenic so it was simple groundskeeper be the for the takes down a corporate type let's find out as we start watching the hawks. like you that i got. with because i. welcome everybody to watching the world wit

health organization has found in the past that by phosphate probably causes cancer but the environmental protection agency has not ruled on the matter as yet on some toes says it will appeal the case and continues to maintain that its products are not cost an agenda but there are more than five thousand cases concerning the weed killer and it's a fix pending and following this decision the kong lumbered faces the possibility of more massive payouts to come i cannot. well still to come here on al-jazeera isolate the long gone but people in northern iraq say the whole thomas kurdish region only slowly seeing the economy recover. and getting ready to travel one hundred fifty million kilometers we look at the probe that's flying into the face of the sun. the south china sea is a very wet place and i wouldn't touch each of course depression the same as sure the philippines see in the white cloud over luzon which covers it doesn't disappoint two hundred ten millimeters is what you might expect from that sort of white mass of tide over twenty four hours now those to the southern limit to where the further rain w

always related environmentalist certainly argue and scientists and maybe not your ahead of environmental protection agency up until recently food water carbon land how do you arrive at the fact that today is the day we use what should be using in a year we are simple pedestrian icon just instead of money the physical resources we add up all the beans to potatoes the origins that be used the space needed for c o two sequestration everything be used for nature and see how much space is needed to support that and then we can compare that with how much productive space is available on the planet and so we can make the balance and say how quickly are we using our renewable resources compared to what earth can regenerate. and as a humble accountant and his humble account of the do this you identify what you call a giant ponzi scheme. i mean that's what happens if you use more than what you have and say that's normal income that's essentially a ponzi scheme you basically paid the present by depleting the future and that's what we're doing it to logically now it's possible to use more than what you earn financial

other bills, acts designed reduce air pollution, the environmental protection agency comes into existence during this period. environmentalism gets embraced by members of congress in both major political parties. congressmen on the democratic side. people like john taylor and john heintz on the republican side. there's a lot of productive productive action, right? for all of its early bipartisan appeal, environmental consciousness was an uneasy fit for certain elements of the u.s. clinical system, especially for elements of the u.s. legal system. the u.s. legal system, as we talked about previously, is based on an anglo american tradition in which the basic units of society tend to be rights bearing individuals. most of what we do in our everyday life is supposed to be of little interest to the state as long as what we are doing doesn't harm anybody else in the process. sorry, i jumped ahead. one of the most fundamental realizations of the environmental movement was the idea that so many things that we do in our everyday life, how many times we run the dishwasher whether we walk or take a

human beings back in two thousand and fifteen here in the united states our very own environmental protection agency decreed the chemical is not likely to be carcinogenic to humans the san francisco chronicle reports that johnson's case is the first of about four thousand nationwide to go to trial against monsanto now a subsidiary of bayer and that if the jury finds monsanto responsible for johnson's cancer the two sides have agreed that he should receive two point five to three million in damages for lost wages medical expenses and other costs but that figure doesn't include the potential punitive damages which could reach four hundred million or more if the jury finds monsanto was recklessly or intentionally causing harm which johnson's lawyers believe they were by not putting warning labels on the product and actively fighting against any research that proves that lives of faith was it in. carcinogenic so will simple groundskeeper be the for the takes down the corporate titans let's find out as we start watching the hawks. get the. real thing this would. be the bottom. like you that i got. this.