britt: has epa appealed the mandate? admin. regan: epa presented the best case it could. sen. britt: you have not appealed? admin. regan: the courts in its writing expressed serious frustrations with agency decisions in the past and expressed serious frustrations on where we were on endangered species and the like. you can only tempt fate for so many times and what i pledged to do is to respect the letter of the law. sen. britt: i hope you consider appealing that and helping farmers use a weight to make use of the 11 safe ways to use it. >> thank you. feels like everyone has heard me say this one million times so -- but it matters. as we continue our progress to return to regular order, this hearing provides an of the critical opportunity to look up why it is so important to families that we work in a timely, bipartisan way to pass our funding bills and make sure we are actually providing the research necessary to keep people safe. safety is about more than how strong our military is. family wants to know -- families want to know if they have clean air and clean water. fishers

to be at epa than right now to thanks to president biden, epa has put forth $100 billion to invest in america just unbelievable. and with that funding we're going to tackle climate change, advanced environmental justice and create jobs all around the country. we're moving as quickly as we can to get this money into american communities that are producing results just last week administrator was in grand rapids michigan where light pipes are being replaced. his visit superfund sites where cleanup is underway after years of delay. he's been to communities where electric buses are already taking kids to and from school. projects like these are happening all around the country and it's all made possible by the president's investing in america agenda. so as we implement these programs, as we continue to glory, we knowke we have to focs on workers who will carry out this transition. have goodand will paying union jobs and expand opportunities for workers who too often haveen been left behi. at epa were pushing ourselves to think creatively and officiously about thisio work, creating high-qu

this is new for epa. we are stepping out on a limb and we are doing more partnerships with the industry. how do you codify rules that set the playing field at a level where everyone has equal instructions and the guardrails for investments, but not block out any technology. there are ways to look at how we aggregate and use data. there are proof systems that we are building in so there are new technologies that come online. it's a little bit of an experiment, but we are excited about it and what's exciting about it is the industry has to save that product and control those emissions. >> i guess it is unusual. the epa has been doing regulation for a long time, but when you have this amount of innovation going on to make the roles not have that innovation is really a challenge. some other countries. >> the first thing i tell some of my team who says this is the way we've always done it and i say well, that's exactly why we are not going to do it. we cannot do things the way we always done it. this entrepren

it's not just the epa.also arming it agents with guns and spending money on am education in. ammunition. tell me what heir doing with that money and where this money came from. >> so in terms of militarizing the federal agencies, at open the books.com we've been the subject matter experts since 2016 when we put our piece up at the "wall street journal" why does the irs need guns. just since 2006 the internal revenue service has spent $35.2 million on guns, ammunition and military-style equipment including just since the pandemic $10 million that's been peak years, they've purchased a million dollars worth of ar-15 smith & wesson rifles and shot guns, for example. maria:s that is extraordinary. adam, thanks very much. we're going to keep a spotlight on this and continue this conversation. we is appreciate your time. we know that congress is going away, many left already this week for a 37-day reaccess. but when they come back, they're going to be dealing with these appropriations bills, and this certainly wi

yet epa allowed imidacloprid on the u.s. market a year later. after decades of exposure, the consequences epa scientists once warned about are now confirmed by the task force on systemic pesticides. >> and unfortunately, these chemicals are often, and i would say most of the time, released before there is adequate information to show whether they are harmful in thenvironment. i think neonicotinoids are a prime example of that. >> epa assesses risk posed by pesticides prior to their release on the market. safety studies are typically conducted and paid for by pesticide manufacturers on their own product. epa says its decisions are informed by the best science available. in addition to studies by manufacturers, epa scientists review pesticide studies from peer-reviewed scientific journals and data from a wide variety of sources when they are available. but studies on pesticide safety that come out after a pesticide is on the market may not be evaluated by epa until a pesticide comes up for review, a process that canake as ng as 15 yrs. farmers lik

the courts have directed epa's do this and they have to do it. the question is, when will we have the rules in place that we actually know what the rules are? >> i would offer, as long as we look for an expansive definition of what is or is in a jurisdictional wetland under the clean water act, you will have pushback and it will continue to go back and forth. if the army corps of engineers or epa wants to regulate farmland in a way that's specifically excluded by the clean water act and the 44 permit amendment, i suggest they come back to congress and seek that jurisdiction. >> i don't know if i'm supposed to respond, the time is up. the reality is, the supreme court has created this directive and federal courts are directing the epa to do this. it's not like they are doing it on their own, they have court direction. >> single judges have said something about a significance -- a significant nexus. when the decision comes down in days, weeks, months, the administration will reopen the rule and provide compliant rulemaking for that decision. >> i'm

the epa warns that ingested could cause serious health problems specifically for your heart and lungs. there are hazmat crews on the way and the health department's warning to avoid reading it in. we have not heard of any official shelter in place order. >>> in november, people of martinez saw ash falling from the sky from the refinery, people were later told not to eat vegetables at the time. the refinery recalled that the dust had spread the catalyst in the incident. >>> the white house announced a new plan for more testing and research into trank, they are stopping short of recommending new restrictions. the cdc found that xylene was found in a most 11% of drug overdose deaths in june of last year. that is up from under 3% in january 2019. the biden administration will explore making silencing a scheduled drug, several states have already restricted the drug. >>> governor gavin newsom said he is updating the opioid plan to include tackling the rising threat of trank. he is also increasing antidrug trafficking work along california's border with mexico. california's department of pu

i remember when i was at the epa we would be asked around state of the union time. to send over the i think they put a word limit on a hundred words that the president might say in the state of the union speech about the environment and if we got a sentence and if we were we were thrilled to think that almost 20% of the speech was dedicated to the environment that state of the union speech was dedicated in the in to the environment. it's really something and it shows i think how the president and the white house staff were really starting to think about how we need to as he as he put it he said the great question of the 70s is whether we're going to clean up. the water and the air and the land that had been so poorly degradated and polluted over the over the decades before and then the following month. he sent a very extensive environmental message up to the congress which outlined a 37-point program including 23 major legislative proposals and 14 new actions. that could be taken either by administrative actions or executive order. and those there were five main poi

is epa going to redraft some of those rules inoi light of the nw supreme court decision? >> we absolutely well. i think i was -- as administrator, if i were secretary come in my four years i had the challenge of trying to finish the implementation of the obama world and begin the implementation of the trump rules so as a state agency i was sort ofcy pulling my hair out at the pendulum swing and the regulations,m so what we attempted to do was have a more balanced approach as we designed oural regulation, recognizing tt designing the regulation of this magnitude takes around two to three years, so we wanted to get started. i believe that we have a framework in place that obviously the supreme court has weighed in s on and has given us more specific directions van the agencies received, so what we are going to do over the next coming months is to codify the new language of the supreme court and begin to move forward with the regulation thatth i believe will provide more certainty for our farmers and for those who are trying to protect the most precious wetlands. this is the

anything environmental in the country before there was an epa. the epa is not created in 1970. there was nowhere go. if you had an environmental problem here in the in rancho mirage your palm springs and you're getting flummoxed not getting action in sacramento, you might send a postcard to douglas and he'd respond and he'd say, give me everything, every information. you can't people, these green grassroots groups, countries start sending douglas reams of their about what's going on local places. and douglas would farm it out to david brower at sierra club or howard zinn i saw at the wilderness society. and then douglas kept hiking and, hiking. he hike in in kentucky to stop a dam and he won. he hike bobby and ethel kennedy along the olympic peninsula of washington state and no road he to the buffalo river in arkansas river where the protest so big people were putting barbed wire the river so canoes or kayakers would get entangled there were shootings on and there's bill douglas canoeing down the buffalo. now i didn't see he's a great supreme court justice. okay. okay, you got

we give it to epa. epa makes the call. then it is a responsibility to figure out ways in which we can help farmers comply with whatever regulations. we don't make the regulations. >> okay, i'm going to move on. next question, regarding china. a big concert in my district, 95,000 farms. you said early at that foreign-owned land is 40 million acres, and that 1% of 1% is owned by the chinese? >> roughly 384,000 -- >> that's a lot of acres. >> it is less than 1% of 1% of -- >> i am here to tell you, mister secretary, this is a big concern. one acre that is bought or owned by the chinese communist government or any agent there off is a big concern, especially when it is near the air force base in my district. something has to change. >> i agree with you, congressman, that we have to be very careful about the ownership of foreign land near any of our defense installations. that is what a recent incident in north dakota was brought to our attention. i agree with. you >> i had to give up my real as it often is to do this job. fear

epa makes the decision. it is our job to figure out ways to help farmers comply if they can. >> i understand. those of us in this room do not stand up for our ag, no -- producers, no one else will. how much were you involved in the rewrite of the rule that went into effect, were you able to provide impact -- to the process? >> do you want me to respond in writing? >> respond in writing. we will keep within expectations i said. >> i yield back the time i no longer have. >> it's gladly received. now, i recognize the congressman from michigan. >> great to see you. i'm proud to be the only one from michigan on the side along with the senator, the queen of agriculture, on the senate side. you came to my district in 2021, to the town hall of farmers, on the capital gains tax issue, you are struggled it of saying there should it exception for farmers. i want to make that note. i'm a former c.i.a. officer and pentagon official. i look at things from a national security ladd's. -- lens. reauthorizing the farm bill is

however, epa's reviews recently released esa workplan needs additional modification to ensure it does not cause severe disruption to american agricultural industries. agri- retailers in the certified crop advisors which i am one should be consulted in developing pesticide mitigation measures and working with the experts should be accounted for in the epa's picklist methodology, care should be taken for local options that work in each growing area and cropping system because they're all unique. epa must ensure stakeholder engagement of injuries such as farmers, agri- retailers and pesticide for the products that regulate. they do waters of the united states greatly expands the federal government regulatory reach over privately and you said about the epa of ditches and drainages on low spots on farmlands and pastors. none of these features meet the definition and the clean water act in the new rule impacts everyday activities that farmers must do on their working lands. on the energy divided administration on climate policy provided ways agriculture can contribute significantly to solut

as the ministry of the epa, michael is test with the protection of human health and the environment. that includes leading the federal implementation on the clean water act, safe drinking water at -- act. we are eager to hear about the path forward with regard to planning around water. the former secretary of the north carolina department of quality. it is great to have somebody with that state perspective. helping to make calls at the national level. no stranger to the relationship between states and the federal government. they have the noblest of intense. too late to clean air and clean water for people across our country. whether it is wildfires affecting air qualities, we are no strangers to watershed issues hurting farmers, water treatment facilities, cooperation between the federal and state government and epa is more important than ever before. on behalf of my fellow governors, we present that the west is unique in our challenges from scarce water resources to being on the front line for international emission transports, the rising number of wildfires that are disproportiona

there has not been a senate epa environmental efforts for far too long. he is exceptionally qualified to do this job. he believes this position, the long career that includes 17 years with the department of justice, serving in both democratic and republican administrations. let me say that again. 17-year career with the department of justice serving in both democrat and republican administrations. during seven of those years, mr. uhlmann served as the chief of the department of justice environmental crimes section. in addition, mr. uhlmann's nomination has drawn the support of five former epa administrators, including three who served under republican administration. let me say that again. mr. uhlmann's nomination has earned the support of five former epa administrators, including three who served under republican administrations. william rileey, lee thomas and christine todd whitman. his nominations also earned the support of dozens former epa and doj officials. some from a democratic administration. others from republican administrations and some as car

murray's man, scott pruitt is you know is is named epa director aintrator. the trump administration i largely willing to embrace bob murray's deregulatory framework. however, you can't put the genie back inheottle natural gas cheaper than coa now particularly again, you can make an argumen that well, that's only because their environmental gutions fair enough, right but natural gas industry is not ing to have a full-roed opposition to the environmental regulations that allows it to burn cleaner than coal. d so the tmp administration sort of rhetorically embraces the coal industry, but simply can't do what murray wants fully and so he turns to the ohio legislature and through this kind of scandal eliminates, ohio subsidies for solar power and other you know, and other alternative energies in order to have a bailout for coal and nuclear. it was interesting for me driving to indiana yesterday that as soon as i hit the a line. there was this huge solar farm which may or not be trade directly related to this issue but probably is right. so in 2019 murray energy d

epa can make a judgment.hey have to set a stricter framework where the cables can move and get in place. and where you can sheathe some of the tables, particularly ones on overhead wires. >> this seems, because the lead risks are so clear and the evidence is so clear -- like, for instance, people have who been fishing in spots with 15-times the acceptable limits for almost 30 years. every paragraph in the original story, details examples like this lake tahoe with the camping ground there's not question of possible exposure and possible damage my question to you, is what's the precedent for the companies? is there a precedent or some kind of structure or pay settlement that could help investors understand how big the financial risks might be and how it might be resolved? >> i don't think there's a precedent on this scale. this distributable to lead people are getting exposed to lead we don't know the source qwest did lead levels in children who were tested for lead most children get tested for lead around the

the white house epa california, they are putting pressure and extra costs on truckers like y you.f we didn't have truckers, the economy was so bus. they want you to go electrics that are you asking what is the epa doing after hundreds of billions of dollars in taxpayer money we got 45%, like half of u.s. tapwater nationwide cancers chemicals in it. >> the thing about this administration right now, you would think the sky is falling with this climate alarmism stuff and the fact is truckers do not have a lot of confidence in the trucks in these battery vehicles. range they are capable of doing what they will have the power to do, there isn't the reliability and it's one thing is truckers we look for, nobody wants to be broke out on the side of the road and we talk about driver shortage attention problems other, this is because a driver that has a truck is not confident driving, he's not going to stay in the occupation to do that job he's going to leave and find something else. liz: are you worried biden white house is basically outsourcing green energy to california in california is

and former epa advisor.y. >> thank you for having me. >> we'll start from the beginning of july. it was reported as the hottest week for the planet as a whole, according to the world meteorology can organization. to which the united nations has attributed climate change being quoted out of control. authors of a recent study exploring the effects of climate change have called this extreme weather, the new abnormal. do you agree that we are already seeing climate change actively transforming our reality? >> without a doubt. you know, scientist and folks coming from the front lines have been warning us for decades that we were going to find this moment because of our addiction to fossil fuels. now with extreme heat we have two billion people across our planet actually that are dealing with extreme heat. we have 100 million folks are in our country dealing with it. we've seen wildfires, we've seen floods, and now you know this is just biblical sets of heat that folks are dealing with. there is no way to deny tha

you actually look at the law firms that filed amicus briefs in that case, it was for to zip on the epa side for big law with no big law firms filing on behalf of west virginia. so something very stark is going on here, i think this is very bad for the courts ultimately and i alluded to this last night. we have an adversary system of justice, the courts, the justices, they all depend on hearing from both sides in the case and controversy. if one side has all the resources of the m law one and the other side does not that can make a real difference. particularly in cases that are labor-intensive, and i don't need to tell folks in this room that sometimes election law cases can be particularly labor-intensive at the trial court level. so two of the system in one direction is just bad for the system, it's bad for the judges. i also think it's bad for the whole legal profession because it starts to communicate this view, at least implicitly that there's only one right answer in these controversies. there is only one respectable side of these disputes going all the way to the supreme court a

there's an effort now by scientists in texas who want to get rid of the 1930s epa chart because it hasoblem, he can't blame today's heat waves on co2 when heat waves were worse in the united states when co2 went to the atmosphere. stuart: it's a good debate, a very good debate and i'm glad you're on the show today. i'm sorry, i'm out of time, i'm very sorry i'm out of time. will bring you back again, it's a good debate. senator joni ernst going after john kerry, the climates are because of his talks with china. what is she saying? >> she's focusing on the wrong enemy. this is what she says john kerry is focusing on fossil fuel being the enemy when china is the enemy. pull up the quote, she told fox digital once again joe biden's climates are just off burning the same fossil fuels he rages against wasting taxpayer dollars to undermine the world stage while his head is stuck in the clouds, john kerry needs a reminder that fossil fuels are not the enemy, china is. the ccp is seeking to undermine the u.s. at every turn but the biden administration continues to back to beijing, the world's

the epa sensors are the best. those low cost sensors, everybody is using them anyway and they can be helpful to get right down to your neighborhood. the smoke is going the other way tomorrow. everything starts blowing that way. that will help in a big way. if you look at the futures for tomorrow, it looks surprising but there could be a few drops of rain through the central valley. a weak area of low pressure in the state. but you will notice the clouds tomorrow. a few high clouds through the middle of the day. the real story is this image. the daytime highs. it is still hot tomorrow when you cool down 10 degrees where where you were today. but you are not 105 anymore. you are going back down to the low to mid 90s . that big bubble of heat will migrate off of us. and we will go to the four corners. the seven day forecast shows you, look at oakland, you'll get to the upper 60s and sit there for a little while. san francisco, you'll be back to your lovely low 60s gray and damp. when you look at north bay valleys it

the epa calls this "beneficial use," and members of the coal industry claim reusing coal ash provides an environmental benefit. >> there are a wide variety of things we can use coal ash for, rather than throw it away. the most prominent uses are, uh, using coal fly ash in concrete. every ton of fly ash we put into concrete is a ton of cement that doesn't need to be made, and not making that ton of cement has saved over 11 million tons of co2 emissions last year alone. used properly, coal ash is a safe material for beneficial use. the levels of metals in coal ash are comparable to the levels of metals in the dirt and rocks in your backyard. we believe the best solution to coal ash disposal problems is to quit throwing it away. in parts of the country, these historic coal mines have a tremendous problem with acid mine drainage. you've seen the orange-colored creeks and those kind of things. coal ash can actually be used, uh, to modify the ph in those settings and relieve that acid mine drainage. so that's an example where you actually want to put the coal ash in contact with the water b

then i will give a brief update on the inflation reduction act funding that is $27 billion that the epa is making plans to distribute for the green house gas reduction fund. last friday, they announced the notice of funding opportunities for two of the three buckets of that gtrf. the one that is most exciting for the green banking idea is this clean communities investment accelerator, which intends to provide $6 billion in grants to entities like green banks so the epa is planning a two phase approach to rolling this money out and the initial funding round they intend to issue between 2 and 7 grants. we imagine those will be regional entities that applications are due in september of this year and with epa intending to announce the awardees in the spring and so we are really gearing up for a second round application to those initial grantees that we imagine will get information on in early 2024. the guidelines on this fund talk about specifically about capitalization funding for community lenders like green banks and guidelines recommend up to $10 million in capitalization along with $1

>> that was really thedo six -- three votes in the covid case in the epa case in student loan case. fact justice barrett who used to teach this area of legislation when she was a law professor at notre dame before she was on thero supreme court, she wrote a separate opinion in the student loan case to try to justify this major question's doctorate explain how it is consistent withhi the normal theories of textualism you're supposed to interpret text in a statute in a way the ordinary reader of the english language with think it's interpreted like the original is him we talked about on the constitutional level there's a parallel theory for statute. justice kagan in the dissent said you guys are pulling a rabbit out of the hat. what a joke about this doctor in question were quelled to enforce the way it's written? twenty-eight texture was would do justice barrett is pushing back and say no this is consistent. so they debate these issues that are very high intellectual level. on the ground it means people who have student loans are going to have to pay them despite the biden administra

the epa is determined to eliminate contaminated lead dust for millions of homes and schools.ials there say and it's one of the most ambitious measures ever to get rid of lead dust and older buildings. the agency is proposing stricter inspections on older home state care, center's and facilities. if lead is detected, the site will be classified as a lead hazard. the head of the epa says there are no safe levels of lead and even low levels are harmful to children. the agency says the new requirements will reduce lead exposure for up to half a million kids under the age of 6. coming up next on kron, 4 news at noon house oversight numbers being briefed now about how cocaine made its way onto white house grounds >> where the investigation stands and what they've learned so far. plus, district attorney brooke jenkins completes 12 months in office. just how effective have for policies bin. >> and if you want to beat the heat here in the bay area and head out tahoe, just a heads up, they'll be under a heat advisory starting saturday afternoon through sunday >> we have some breaking n

yet joe biden has now commanded the epa, commanded the epa, to prioritize climate change over energy available, reliable, or affordable. the epa is now the evil empire as it attacks american energy prosperity, american energy reduction. the epa is aggressively attempting to shut down coal-fired power plants, natural gas-fired power plants while there is no other source of energy to replace it. they're trying to shut down something that has worked for a long time when there is nothing available to replace it. it is foolish, it is harmful. host: that was senator brown's oh. we are taking your call on your top story of the week and crystal is next in pennsylvania. democrat. host: good morning. i have several things i want to say. number one is i am so happy that twitter has competitors like threads and other twitter accounts, the types of twitter accounts, because i'm sick of elon musk. another thing i want to say -- host: do you have a twitter account? do you use twitter? caller: i have a twitter, i'm on threads, i'm on others, but i try to stay away from twitter now because it has bee

we saw the beginning of a significant push to restrict the power of agencies like the epa to regulate and protect the environment, deal with climate change and public safety. this year of course we saw the long cherished conservative goal overturning affirmative action in higher education and quite clearly more to come when it comes to curbing the power of government to protect the environment and public health and safety. this term was more tempered. there was a significant, unexpected causative ruling in the voting rights act case where they did not finish the job of destroying the voting rights act. with the direction of the court is quite clear and it aims to change the country by changing the court's interpretation of the constitution. host: you mentioned the redistricting case, the legislative case as well. but you recently said the court actually makes decisions on certain things that go against the idea of a 6-3 majority. guest: the independent state legislature has a lot -- it was a crackpot idea and they should never have taken the case. it would have been the esteemed conse

chair murray: are you chording with the epa to make sure the army is testing? sec. wormuth: i'm sure that we are coordinating with the epa, if they changes what they determine to be a safe standard, that will have application -- implications for us. chair murray: thank you very much. >> thank you for both of your service. are you aware that the administration has released a draft regulation that would warn -- have contractors report on greenhouse gas admissions -- emissions. are you aware of that regulation? sec. wormuth: i don't think i am aware of that specific proposal at this time. it has not come. >> if we are going to make people track based on emissions, aren't we starting to prioritize emission standards over weapons performance? sec. wormuth: without seeing the specifics of the draft, i cannot speak to the implications. if contractors are being asked to track their emissions and report them, that's a different then having a consequence if there levels are deemed to be not acceptable. i would 9 -- need to know a little more. sen. hoeven: tracking emissions,

this builds on west virginia versus epa. that was a case last year with the supreme court held that certain regulations passed by the epa were unconstitutional. now they held actually the student loan forgiveness plan implemented by the department of education and also unlawful. if that's the case, i'm looking at my presidency if i'm elected president, most of those federal regulations put out by the administrative state are also unconstitutional. i will rescind them according toly and this is a -- accordingly and we'll see in a positive way in the consequences for the decision. >> pay people to stay at home instead of going to work. pay single mothers more money not to have the man in the house than to have the man in the house and now what do we see in the student loan forgiveness case, paying students and the people that don't repay their loans effectsively more than the people who work hard to actually do it. what i said is as u.s. president, i'm going to >> i think the supreme court came down warily on the right side of

yet joe biden has now commanded the epa, commanded the epa, to prioritize climate change over energy available, reliable, or affordable. the epa is now the evil empire as it attacks american energy prosperity, american energy reduction. the epa is aggressively attempting to shut down coal-fired power plants, natural gas-fired power plants while there is no other source of energy to replace it. they're trying to shut down something that has worked for a long time when there is nothing available to replace it. it is foolish, it is harmful. host: that was senator brown's oh. we are taking your call on your top story of the week and crystal is next in pennsylvania. democrat. host: good morning. i have several things i want to say. number one is i am so happy that twitter has competitors like threads and other twitter accounts, the types of twitter accounts, because i'm sick of elon musk. another thing i want to say -- host: do you have a twitter account? do you use twitter? caller: i have a twitter, i'm on threads, i'm on others, but i try to stay away from twitter now because it has bee

then i will give a brief update on the inflation reduction act funding that is $27 billion that the epa is making plans to distribute for the green house gas reduction fund. last friday, they announced the notice of funding opportunities for two of the three buckets of that gtrf. the one that is most exciting for the green banking idea is this clean communities investment accelerator, which intends to provide $6 billion in grants to entities like green banks so the epa is planning a two phase approach to rolling this money out and the initial funding round they intend to issue between 2 and 7 grants. we imagine those will be regional entities that applications are due in september of this year and with epa intending to announce the awardees in the spring and so we are really gearing up for a second round application to those initial grantees that we imagine will get information on in early 2024. the guidelines on this fund talk about specifically about capitalization funding for community lenders like green banks and guidelines recommend up to $10 million in capitalization along with $1

a news brief the other evening, has 20 states already signed up that the law put into place by the epanged in the supreme court that it is illegal and has to go through congress and the biden administration circumvented that. they put companies and consumers in a bad place. neil: i know lucid deliveries were up 1400 vehicles in the latest quarter. but that is not chump change. they seem to be the bigger players but all the major automakers are growing their ev line. you would think that would get people visiting your stores to kick the tires. are they? do they turn around? most of them are very expensive. >> let's start with the fact they are $10-$15,000 over a gas vehicle, then you install a charger your home and people can't afford that. they were hit with the covid impact, people are getting back on their feet, 6% inflation. they can't afford that. they have anxiety, afraid where they will charge it. the infrastructures not in place and the biden administration got over its skis and it is starting to show. we are hitting a brick wall and you peel back the onion on lucid antennas lap

it was republican governor pete wilson who established the california epa. and it was republican governor arnold schwarzenegger who signed the 2006 global warming solutions act that i referenced earlier. the net result in california's efforts is that in 2023, our state has a diverse portfolio of clean energy resources, not hypothetical, operational, solar, wind, and geothermal energy. all while fostering a growing economy that's on its way to becoming the fourth largest economy in the world. it is that long-term vision and commitment to clean energy and a transition to it that will bring the first ever transition to cal caltran's all new electric fleet. it will result in the first transition from diesel trains in the west. it's the same vision that diverse fighter energy sources said after a winter of extreme storms like we saw this last year, we can take advantage of torrential rains with hydropower capabilities or reap the benefits of our expanded solar capacity and battery storage. i raise these examples, colleagues, not just to showcase california's lead