the issue at epa was epa was not overseeing to make sure that those actual controls were being i wa implemented. >> lack of compliance. >> right. >> we might look at some mechanism to ensure that. mr. lewis? >> we haven't found anything that would require legislation. ours was a case of complete lack of oversight or attention to this. the requirements were already there for that to be in place. the focus that this act has put on the periodic risk assessments and audits has been good and that is working to start bringing these things. >> you have cited some successes in bringing about compliance and also implementing the intent and purpose of the law. mr. lyle, the air force has cited what they have done to try to get the proper use of these cards. ms. richards, anything you see we need to do from the law or procedural stand point? >> no, sir, not at this time. the law very wisely puts in place the regular risk assessments and reporting to the oigs and the requirements for us to take a look back at what the departments are doing. i think as that plays out over time, it will better inform any cha

aig in hear from epa that regard. we will find from that the epa did not provide effective controls required by the 2012 law. the ig found that half the credit card purchases sampled improper, ored, erroneous purchases. --fact, again in that report it is quite startling. epaof the reviewed transactions were not in policies, with epa according to the law. that dhs spente $12,000, all purchases and charges at one particular coffee shop in california. , weve a little starbucks are not supposed to show any labels. they bought $12,000 worth of thisucks coffee at california location in 2013. this is just the coast guard in that one starbucks, pretty heavy bill with this credit card. to more than $31,000 that dhs spent at that starbucks. again, looking at different reports that have been filed. a recent report suggest that the bureau of land management used government charge cards to buy $800,000 in gift cards. this is another recent report, the office of inspector general, the u.s. department of interior. agency thather aga

to joel cockin, grimes versus the obama epa represents once again the fight between the two wings of>> the democratic party used to believe in economic growth. now the democratic party has really become more about redistribution. while the environmentalists really don't want growth because economic growth is bad for the environment in their minds. >> while grimes campaigns to separate herself from washington, mitch mcconnell wants to tie the two together. >> a vote for allison grimes is a vote for barack obama. >> i spoke to the senator recently in washington. >> and a vote for mitch mcconnell is a vote for kentucky. >> but allison grimes has painted herself as being a supporter of the coal industry and the jobs it once provided. >> but the most important vote she'll cast is the first vote when she gets there to make harry reid the leader of the senate. >> so vicious. >> and harry reid famously said, coal makes you sick. >> what will you do if you become majority leader for that coal mining industry? >> in the bill from the environmental protection agency, we will seek to restrict th

it's not in my committee, it the epa committee.eystone pipeline, i've actually raised support from three democrats to 11 and did everything i could to get a vote on the senate. >> it didn't happen. >> it's because i'm not running the senate. mitch mcconnell and harry reid are running the senate. i promise if i was running the senate, we would have had the vote. >> bihe thinks that's the probl. >> even show she supports the pipeline and she's the chair of the committee, that's not enough. >> she was the top vote on the keystone pipeline. she was unable to get that. she also said her first move to get harry reid as senate majority leader. why would you make your first vote for him as opposed to someone favoring our state? >> even if she hadn't gotten every vote she wanted, landrieu's influence has won her some real successes. in addition to opening up more area for drilling, she also helped get one of the few export terminals for liquefied natural gas through washington's regulatory maze. >> i helped walk it through when the country

that is why richard nixon created the epa. the father of conservation was a conservative republican from iowa named john lacey. this is not a partisan issue. it is an issue important to iowans. >> charles collins has heard joni ernst say she would work to repeal obamacare. have you given any thought to how situations in my situation will not lose coverage? another person says, his employer dropped coverage because obamacare. >> every iowan and american has the right to quality, affordable health care. obamacare is not the answer. he said he read every single page of the bill. what we have seen in iowa is it is a tax to iowans and americans of $1.2 trillion. it is taking personal health care decisions out of our hands and placing them with bureaucrats in washington dc. the insurance commissioner announced that plans through the exchange will go up 19%. i don't see how this is affordable for anybody. when the president and congressman braley promised us we would see an average reduction of $2600 per family. families are paying m

it was president barack obama they say who's green policies led to the epa restrictions on coal-firedwer plant emissions that shut down the mines. >> if somebody wants to build a coal-powered plant, they can. it's just that it will bankrupt them. >> he has no idea, no idea, what he's done to this little part of the country. whether he cares or not, i don't know. he's killed us. he's killed this part right here. i'm telling you. it's gone. it's gone. >> reporter: we talked to one of the few miners still working in harlan county. >> i thank the lord for my job every day because there ain't a lot out there. >> reporter: steven adams asked us to pass along a simple message to the president. >> dear mr. president, would you please leave us coal miners ñkw÷ alone and let us work and provide for our families?xd that's the only thing we're asking for. leave us alone. just let us work. >> reporter: but with the obama administration's recently proposed epa regulations, the chance that these men might keep their jobs becomes all the more remote. >> when those kick in it's basically going to be t

epa overreach is unbelievable. one power plant in the state meets the parameters set out by the president, who my opponent supports his policies. i think -- what are we supposed to do? let's have something that makes sense. the president says we need to lead on this. if the president is leading the globe on this issue and china and india and japan and all the other nations are not following, he is just taking a walk. he is taking a walk at the expense of the men and women in the coal fields. .000 jobs and more to come this is a travesty. we have got to stop this. >> do think the scientists are wrong? >> i don't necessarily think the climate is changing. we need to find a balance in changing this. without hurting the heartland of this country. listened to the scientists. i know there is a consensus and i don't disagree with them. at the same time, we do not need to choose between clean air and clean coal. i know that we have the technology that can meet the demand and that is why had challenged the president and the

it is the biggest problem we have. 2e administration has issued regulations through the epa. pursuing a goal that cannot pass when they totally controlled the congress. one would guarantee there is another -- and there's not another coal fire plant created. industry.fter this they want to shut it down. if you look at the rest and we know what it is, global carbon emissions. no industrialized country in the world is going to do this. germany, for example, which used to be the greenest country in europe is now importing coal. the indians have called greenpeace a threat to their economy. the chinese are building a coal fire plant. the australians just repealed their carbon tax which was their version of what president obama trying to do here in the united states. aen if he felt and it was and it will have zero impact and what we need to do in congress and will not been able to get any votes a because harry reid would not let a single vote on coal of occur, not a one. again, restrict the funding of the environmental protection agency so they cannot go down this path. place, -- is

purchases at epa. we'll find from that report that epa did not provide effective controls for the 2012 law. more than half the credit card purchases sampled, now, listen to this, they took a sampling. about half of those that were sampled were either plo hibted, improper or erroneous purchases. in fact, again, in that report, that's quite startling that 94% were not in compliance with epa policies according to the law. we have evidence that dhs spent $12,000, aum purchases and charges. at one mar coffee shop. i've got a little starbucks here. we're not supposed to show the habl, but they bought this at one location in 2013. now we've been looking. this is just the coast guard and that one star bucks. pretty heavy bill with those ket cards. but now we're up to $31,000 that d.h.s. spent at that starbucks, again, looking at different reports that have been filed. : recent report suggests that the bureau of land management used government charge cards to buy $800,000 in gift cards. this is another recent r

far from easing up on regulations, the epa recommended even tougher carbon dioxide restrictions set toffect next year. environmentalists applaud the move. the coal industry believes the proposed rules will be devastating. for her heart allison grimes who declined to speak with us despite repeated requests for an interview has gone out of her way to distance herself from the administration and from the environmental elite of her party. >> i will fight to make sure that coal has a long-term place in our national energy policy. >> shortly after the administration rolled out the new regulations, grimes laid into president obama in this radio message. >> your epa is targeting kentucky coals with pie in the sky regulations that are impossible to achieve. it is clear you have no idea how this effects kentucky. >> later grimes famously declined to say whether she even voted for president obama. >> to joe, grimes verses the obama epa represents once again the fight between the two wings of her party. >> the democratic party used to believe broad based economic growth. now the democratic party h

and how much of that is epa? >> i have knowledge that cheap natural gas is a problem for coal competitiveness because once you measure this on a million btu basis, i've been told by the experts, natural gas is selling somewhere around $4 a million btus. and coal has trouble competing with that. but we have to take this in its totality. this is not something that's occurred really in the last few years. there's been an effort by many in the enenvironmental community to make sure there's another coal-fired power plant constructed in the united states. but, remember, when folks brag about, well, we've been able to keep 200 brand new coal-fired power plants from being constructed, those would have been state of the art with technology power plants that would have been built, perhaps it would have been fewer emissions going into the atmosphere over the last several years. so this has been about a sten-year fight, not a couple year fight from all of our perspective. >> and that's true. and a lot of that has to do with

that's where the epa comes in.nts by as much as 30% by 2030. >> this is the single worst blow to kentucky's economy in modern times. >> while kentucky is expected to meet a much lower goal, the new regulations have become an easy political target. >> i'm not barack obama. i disagree with him on guns, coal, and the epa. >> there's no question that epa regulations have hurt coal. but what politicians won't say is fracking has unleashed a natural gas boom that makes it hard for coal to compete on price. and after a century in harlan county mining -- >> the easiest to reach coal seamed is depleted. it's now very difficult to get to what's left of the coal. >> as one group of retired miners told me, new mining practices play a major role in the job loss. >> you have all this mechanization going on and people leaving. but it's come to the point now where they don't do underground mining if they can get away with it. they do mountain top removals and surface mining. you can mine a whole mountainside within a year or two,

epa. iowans. >> we have talked about privatizing social security as an option. >> ernst has been highlighting instances when braley seemed to responsibilities. >> i was insulted brailley would be on the vet transaffairs committee and miss 79% of the meetings. veterans risk their lives for our country and bruce brailey didn't have the respect to show up to support them. >> these dueling attacks have been going on. this week, a poll found voters identified missing congressional hearings as a bigger problem than privatizing social security. the poll found that ernst was now ahead by 6 points. experience. >> the truth is both parties are more interested in political games than problem solving. both are failing kansas. >> that's why i am running for the united states senate as an independent. >> polls in kansas show voters now prefer orman and the margin is getting wider. joining us to talk about the implications of this anti-washington mood is michael schur. what do you make of this? >> there

senator pryor likes to talk about how he is led on epa -- he has led on epa regulations yet we passed legislation and he can't get a vote on it. he likes to talk about the keystone pipeline. we passed legislation to permit the pipeline. he can't get a vote on that. why is that? because he likes to talk one way in arkansas but votes like a liberal when he gets to washington, d.c. that's why a vote for mark pryor is a vote for barack obama. >> next question from mr. ompson and goes first to mr. swainy. recently as , as 2011 the president was willing to cut a deal. he was willing to raise the eligibility age on medicare. he was willing to make changes to social security. to the frustration of much of his party's del quation in washington -- delegation in washington, but conservatives balked because it included tax increases. he insisted on that. in hindsight, was conservative inflexibility on this matter a mistake? >> yes. yes, it was. social security is one of the most successful programs of legislation that's ever been enacted in the united states of america. and it's not really in tro

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. >> stop the epa? vite obama? i am voting for you, jimmie odom. >> thank you. but it's jeremy? >> whatever, john johnny. fight obama. >> according to the city for public integrity, they have mentioned the president or his policies more than 100,000 times. more than a third of senate ads have a reference to president obama. all together, the president has been mentioned in ads more than 300,000 times this year. last month, the president decided to delay using executive authority to reform immigration and that is now hurting the democratic party with latino voters. a key constitwains t the activists say it is becoming difficult to register hispanics and poll numbers for mr. obama and democrats have dropped farther among hispanics than among the population at large. in the north carolina senate race, education continues to be a key issue this fall. democratic incumbent kay haguen has been hammering tom 'til is, the state house speaker over cuts to the state education program. >> speaker tom 'til is cut $5

the epa says new cars last year have the best gas mileage ever. we're now averaging 24.1 mpgs, that's revolutionary compared to when we started worrying about miles per gallon a few decades back. >>> and another rare sight tonight. they're not used to this in the waters off southern california. a large pod of sperm whales put on a show for hours. they appear to be mothers and their young. and at one point they were playing with dolphins in the water. they are big, up to 45 tons each. they eat upwards of a ton of squid per whale per day. this is the largest group ever spotted so close to shore. they took up three square miles of ocean before moving the whole pack south. >>> when we come back here tonight, the vital message behind a striking image. the story behind the hundreds of backpacks strewn across a college campus. >>> we're back, and we begin tonight's making a difference report with a new and troubling number. it was revealed today the suicide rate in this country rose over 2% in 2012. among college students in america incredibly suicide is

epa remediation people, community involvement people in washington. a whole variety of people on all sides of the debate. and so it was -- i didn't encounter the kind of situation that you found. there were two chemical traumas unfolding in aniston. i focused today on the pcb fight. the other is a fight to safely dispose of part over the u.s. chemical weapons stockpile. so aniston was one of eight continental u.s. sites where u.s. chemical weapons, designed to kill people, sarin and vx and mustard agent were stored. this is a double exposure that people there were facing. and so i worked to interview people that were involved with that as well. and those interviews were cordial but brief. >> i'm in a slightly different situation because, as a journalist, my mission is to bear witness. it is to go see things on behalf of larger society that larger society can't go see. whether that means going to the front lines in iraq, or if it means watching the exhumation of a mass grave in rwanda. these are not meant things to see. -- not pleasant things to see bu

because of the overtaxation, the overregulation epa, osha, so on and so forth. the thing i find interesting, given an opportunity when i was in congress, to rein in the epa, regulationsonsible to good american companies so we didn't ship them overseas, i did exactly that. my opponent, on the other hand, when she had an opportunity to epa, was unwilling rein them in. to be very clear, it is not true. they have determined that the tax breaks for american overseas to ship jobs is up on their website, saying that is not true. that is no loophole incentivizes american companies to do that. i think the key is to make sure good representation that is going to actually try to draw jobs into the united states and not scare them out through taxes and regulations. >> do you have a 30-second response? >> there are indeed tax breaks my opponent supported that actually give companies ship those jobs overseas. they get a tax benefit for doing that. people.ese i met people who had worked there for 30, 40 years. had tothe woman who scrape the tape off the floor after she trained

. >> i've been told over the years that it's hard to organize over an epa rule. nobody is going to say section 111 d. it's not that inspirational. but a big piece of steel running through a farm is something that gets people upset. it's easy to understand. before you know it, 2011, we kick into overdrive in the summer of 20111 thousand people get arrested. before you know it, there's just a stylistic shift that ends up pushing the policy and the politics in a direction nobody could have predicted. >> it's a combination of unique timing and a political moment where congress isn't doing much. so the appeal of stopping something as opposed to getting something done becomes heightened because we're relying on congress to get something done. >> we've seen a growing scenario going on politically. i don't know if everyone remembers "ground hog day" the movie. the same day over and over again. environmentalists feel like the longer we wait for a position, the better. . fact is some folks in the industry are -- i'm not sure that's so true either but it gives you a sense e

the epa did not respond. the five-day campaign. and by wednesday they said can you please stop. 10,000 women have called. and by friday, they said, please, we've got to do our job. i said, well your job is to recall roundup. and they said, well we'd prefer to meet with principles in d.c. so we've gone and we've met with them. they've made some promises, but you know, it's -- they're not following through. so we're going to go back next week, and we're going to stand outside the epa, meet with whoever we can on their way in and we're going to offer them free glyphosate testing. so we'll see. and we're going to continue to demand to recall roundup. >> i just wanted to add one thing that actually could be in the soil. dr. warren porter who is at the university of wisconsin who researchers pesticides and the effect on people, is that one of the -- he says one of the things that glyphosate does is it basically ties your hand behind your back so the other chemicals, the pesticides that are in your food become more and more powerful. so t

with an epa estimated 42 miles per gallon highway.t's the new efficient. popular tourist destinationt lately, it's also become a hot-spot for car burglars. sharon chin shows how many victims are making themselv easy targets. is. >>> san francisco twin peaks is a hot spot for car burglars, how many victims are making themselves easy targets. >> tourist take in the view from twin peaks thees are eyeing their cars. nearly 100 break ins in the last four months. mostly around twin peaks boulevard at christmas tree park. even if you hide your valuables vandals are smashing the windows, snatching valuables and taking off. >> i need to bring everything from my car i think. >> just to be careful. >> yeah, just to be careful. >> the thieves are experienced a small group of suspects driving different cars likely stolen. >> cars get broken into all the time for random reasons. leave a package and they will steal it. >> whoever is doing this is destroying the image of the city. we are here to have a good time and we're happy. cautious, while we're

but what do we do with the epa and their overreach? particular, the waters over the united states and the legislation that they have written if it is a significant nexus, they can regulate. they can regulate everything up to and including the kitchen sink. we cannot have a federal government that will change the rules. now it requires permission to do normal farming practices rather than prohibition on certain farming practices -- is therestion is, appropriate level of regulation, or do you want them out altogether? and if so -- >> there is an appropriate level . there was a time when we needed the clean air act, the clean water act, and the endangered species act. >> we do not need them now? >> we do need them now, but i think the epa has overreached in congress has to step in. that is why i introduced legislation called the sunset act, which will, incrementally, years, brings all the regulations up for an up or .own vote, so we have a voice and that congress take responsibility for the is it a branch decision. -- the executive branch

against the rains act to limit the epa's that joe mansion supported. he voted against it. turned his back on hard virginians. i could go on and on on the votes. he said, in 2009, when all of those permits were held up by said thend nick rahall epa is just doing their job. on westd his back virginians. and when he runs these ads and let anybodyver stand up in the way of our west telling ways, well, i'm you, barack obama, nancy pelosi, reid, are standing in the way of our jobs. sitting there helping them every step of the way. he voted for her six times for speaker. if he's elected here in two, what?weeks, guess he's going to vote for her again. >> thank you, senator. congressman rahall? >> there he goes again. becamen tax that never law, that was not even in the bill.if you read the i am for coal. every coal miner in this state in the face and say that, as i have done. have theirud to endorsement in this election. reference has been made to the act, which would have required every regulation of the federal government costing over $100 million be subject to congressional app

the epa did not respond. we did the five day campaign. by wednesday, they said can you please stop. 10,000 women have called. and by friday, they said, please, we've got to do our job. i said, well your job is to recall roundup. we would prefer to meet with principals in d.c. they made some promises but it's -- they're not following through so we're going to go back next week and we're going to stand outside the epa, meet with whoever they can on their way in and offer them free gliofoe sate testing. and we're going to continue to demand to recall roundup. >> dr. warren porter who researches pesticides and the effect on people is -- he says that one of the things that gliofoe sate does is it basically ties your hand behind your back so the other chemicals that pesticides that are in your food become more and more powerful. so there's a really nasty synergy going on between roundup and all these other chemicals that are in the soil. and roundup, there was a certain level of roundup they allowed on food and because of gmos which is basicall

pro-coalen at the rallies, the anti-epa rallies i have been at, testifying against the epa? mr.ohnny-come-lately, welcome to the battle, evan. i am glad you finally recognized what coal means to our state. is whatever voted is the reference, let's look at the facts. we used to be friends. i hope we can be friends after this. evan and i, i am happy to say, is a past supporter of mine. he gave my campaign in 2010, after barack obama was elected president, after the affordable care act was signed into law, after what ever vote it was that he quoted back from 07, after all that he was a supporter of my campaign and i appreciate it. >> thank you. the nexto onto question now, which also has to do with the coal mining industry. virginia is the second leading coal producing state in the nation with thousands of people employed in what is a dangerous occupation, do you think steps taken by the have been sufficient whatep minors safe and additional steps should be taken to keep minors safe in the minds ? and what is being done to protect those minors from black lung disease? >> short answ

a reasonable solution i spent a lot of my summer traveling to baseball games and reading about the epa and the ph levels as far as what i've read about the cleans up and ph h is essentially tar roads and roofs and tar is pretty common substance in our lives and tar in other words, to trap and ski clubs is mainly a hazard when you have fertile animals and wild pigs i don't know know if we have wild pigs in san francisco essentially unless you have wild pigs eating the clay fragments the epa doesn't find them thirty to be a problem so unless we have wide pigs eating them this may not be a problem to be cleaned up at a tune of 15 to $20 million thank you. >> thank you. >> my name is frank swan i'm a resident of san francisco and fee taxpayer in that capacity primarily addressing the commission but i am a member of the pacific rodman gun club my main complaint with the declaration started up in the report is that it is based on a report that was incomplete and concluded there were not enough existing data to demonstrate the soil contaminates identified at the site it doesn't conclude they

what i found interesting is that when i was in congress, given the opportunity to rein in the epa, to give responsible regulations to get american company's so we did not ship them overseas, i did exactly that. my opponent, on the other hand, had an opportunity to rein in the epa and was unwilling to vote no to rein them in. the key thing is we do not want to see any jobs leave the united states. to be very clear, it is not true. politico at has determined that the tax breaks for american companies to ship jobs overseas -- it's up on their website saying that is not true. there is no loophole that incentivizes american companies to do that. i think the key thing is to make sure we got good representation that will actually try to drive jobs into the united states. >> do you have a 32nd response. >> there are indeed tax break's my opponent supported that give companies incentive to ship their jobs overseas where they actually make -- they get a tax benefit for doing that. i've met these people who had worked there for 30 and 40 years. i know the woman who had to scrape the tape off the

the epa overreach is unbelievable.the new clean air -- for the existing coal-fired power plant, not one power plant in the state meets the parameters set out by the president, who my opponent supports his policies. she must support this. what are we supposed to do? let's have something that makes sense. let's have technologies that are reachable and affordable. the president says we need to lead on this. if the president is leading the globe on this issue and china and india and japan and all the other nations are not following, he is just taking a walk. he is taking a walk at the expense of the men and women in the coal fields. 7000 jobs and more to come. this is a travesty. we have got to stop this. that is what this election is about. >> a point of clarification. do think the scientists are wrong? >> i don't necessarily think the climate is changing. i think we half to find a balance in changing this. without hurting the heartland of this country. without hurting west virginia families. cliques and a bottle? -- >> a

over 17,000 ads have been running in alaska and most are anti-epa and pro-oil.r 17,000 ads in west virginia when it comes to the energy. 87% of them are pro-coal. over 16,000 in the state of michigan and 38% of them are anti-oil. over 8,000 ads in louisiana where over 50% are pro-oil. in kentucky, over 17,000 ads have aired so far and of course, 87% are pro-coal including this ad from the chamber of commerce. >> coal means jobs in kentucky, while the epa and bureaucrats tried to kill kentucky's coal industry, mitch mcconnell is fighting back and fighting hard, opposing regulations on coal, working to block the epa and shut down the bure crafts. >> saving coal jobs is the single most important thing we can accomplish. >> mcconnell is working so the coal industry remains strong. >> now you understand why grimes is not so quick to embrace obama. the president of the united states knows there is no clean coal and the democrats have come to the conclusion that the president's right on that. climate change is something we have to address. >> iowa is an interesting pla

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epa rates them as a top carcinogen. so those are the compelling reasons why i chose to write this story. >> to various degrees all of you are outsiders to pcbs. you didn't necessarily live in an inner-city neighborhood and ellen you didn't live in aniston are corrupt in this community and chris even though it was your family history there's a whole side of it the black, and sends that you had no connection with. how did you get people to open up to you? you were a stranger coming in asking questions. these are painful memories for some people or embarrassing stories. how do you establish that relationship and connection for them to open up in trust you to tell the story? >> i don't know what trust can exist in a caste society like we have today. i really don't know. i think you have to be fooling yourself to think that you can create that kind of trust when you're on the other side of that line. so i guess that would be my short answer. people had all kinds of stories about what i was doing in the neighborhood. even whe

it gave the epa the biggest budget increase in their history. to comecific directions up with policies related to greenhouse gas regulations. what? those policies are coming home to roost. we can't continue in this direction. this is killing our jobs. it is limiting our ability to grow and prosper in the state. pro-coal.100% i will be pro-coal miner. coall make sure our communities get back on her feet and like people get back to work. >> thank you. >> congress and rahall. >> coal is a way of life in west virginia. tickets are lights on. it is not just a business or job. -- it keeps our lights on. states everything to our of west virginia. i have always stood for coal, and standing for coal, and always will stand for coal. what is so important to keep in mind, my friends, is that we need the domestic -- energy policy that embraces all of the above, as long as they are domestic resources. yes, we have oil and gas and was virginia. have other energy sources as well in this nation. as long as they are domestic, we need to stand up and use those res

but what do we do with the epa and their overreach? particular, the waters over the united states and the legislation that they have written if it is a significant nexus, they can regulate. they can regulate everything up to and including the kitchen sink. we cannot have a federal government that will change the rules. now it requires permission to do normal farming practices rather than prohibition on certain farming practices -- is therestion is, appropriate level of regulation, or do you want them out altogether? and if so -- >> there is an appropriate level . there was a time when we needed the clean air act, the clean water act, and the endangered species act. >> we do not need them now? >> we do need them now, but i think the epa has overreached in congress has to step in. that is why i introduced legislation called the sunset act, which will, incrementally, years, brings all the regulations up for an up or .own vote, so we have a voice and that congress take responsibility for the is it a branch decision. -- the executive branch

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the jury is still out and i think you will see some interesting comments on epa. just hope the epa's listening. host: jimmy in rockville, maryland, independent. caller: good morning. two comments. the woman in north carolina reminded me of this. pop that was released in the river in north carolina, was that coal plant related? can you elaborate on that? secondly, with people calling in and talking about renewables, i think it is the case with wind that that electricity cannot be stored. they do not have batteries that are sized enough. it is not a reliable source of electricity. could you elaborate on that also , please? thank you. batteriesdo not have now that could effectively store wind and solar power. it it also takes a huge amount of space for wind and solar. that is another problem. we do not always have the grid needed. we entered into contracts to try to buy some wind and reverse our portfolio and the delivery of that wind was very difficult because it could not be stored. we invest a lot in the country and we will debate whether we will continue to inves