we're doing that epa as well. we're looking to hire new risk assessors, recent college graduates in our north carolina facility. so if you're from, recent college student, you're from north carolina were looking to hire the risk assessors to a post relocate in research triangle park. the same time we're training across the country people to go into the water management systems jobs. this is where public waterworks, the public waterworks workers today, 40-50% are eligible to retire. we're going to have a shortage so try to get out there and you don't do so have to have a college education to work for water supply company. there's jobs across the whole spectrum. but 40-50% are eligible to retire today's web to make sure we have people trained to what i water systems. our public water drinking water, sewer water systems, going into the future. >> administrator, you are the epa administrator and what is your message to conservatives? i'm a conservative but i believe that god entrusted us to be good stewards of the ear

pollution from manufacturing class is measured by the epa. think they would say that is incorrect. our reporting is correct. anchor: is there any indication of the new trump administration will approach regulation of formaldehyde any differently than it is being dealt with now? >> we know from the first trump administration, when they rolled back many environmental regulations and rules, they like to take a more industry friendly stance. everything he said on the campaign trail makes us think he will continue to do this. pete sessions, a staunch ally of trump, wrote a letter to the epa saying he wants to focus on revisiting what the biden administration did on formaldehyde as soon as possible. they are already focused on how to do this. anchor: i know you have also published stories telling people how they can limit exposure to formaldehyde. >> you want to look at the list of ingredients on your products. sometimes products will have labels about whether they do or do not have formaldehyde. the best way when you get new products is they emit

the west virginia epa case, established a majority opinion, major questions doctrine.this is the epa through executive actions trying to do things that were major policy questions that should only be resolved by congress. it was actually the supreme court again who came in and sort of, that was the check and balance. the supreme court telling the executive branch you may not do this. this is a -- this is a law-making authority that only congress has. and that, i think, was huge win and, you know, the only caveat there epa came back and tried to do it again but we will see where that goes. but the other thing i wanted to note, i'm not sure that it's binary thing either the executive branch or congress does it. i completely agree with the panel that the federal government should be doing a lot less especially the executive branch and you can imagine a world and i think we used to live in this world and we could again where we have a presidential election and half of the country is okay with it and the other half of the country is okay with it. this is a catastrophe and h

so when we talked about from brands in china, we talked about epa itself. so why is facing for those challenges? so what we see is says dot most the x and those sectors x and that changes. so 1st thing is consumers, consumers in china have change. so the foremost sentiment is not as strong as before, especially comparing. we've pre coates situations pre colby's times. so formal payoff, missing allison's money, stop destro anymore. so the more cautious right now is bandy dumble price countries right now in the bank, especially for the high end production. so that's one thing. and the other thing is about the competitions. so we see comedy shows from the ball way and are the chinese or we ads as well. they're introducing more products like personal photo book phones and both. so like a futures in china. this is creating social boss and really attracting those consumers in china. so when they're reading this kind of social boss is easily attracting those consumers why more price closures and looking for a value in china. but what we see is that at the desk do

and if we come to epa, epa collins you much usually see in the high and the high end cause you immerse, but uh, we have to look at it. is that consumers in china right now, even in the high end, they're looking for discount as well. so even though it is limited to the input from the subsidies, the overall across economy situations impact is larger. well, as regards to talk to you about effective date, thank you. to apple siri could be listening to use those without the consent. apples agreed to pay $95000000.00 to settle a court case alleging that its voice activated assistant violates it uses previously. i followed on this complaint that the voice recordings were shared with the policies, including advertises. the tax on is denied any wrongdoing and the preliminary settlement filed and the open california federal court. and that's our show for this week. if you'd like to comments on anything that you've seen, i'm at a finnegan on x twice. remember to use the hash tag h a c t c, or you can drop us a like counting the costs of i'll just say or don't net is our email address. as always,

the west virginia versus epa case that established in the majority opinion for the first time this is the epa through executive action trying to do things, major quality questions that should only be resolved by congress, the supreme court came in and that was the check and balance, the supreme court telling the executive branch you may not do this. this is a lawmaking authority only congress has and that i think was a huge win, the only caveat is the epa came back and tried to do it again. we will see where that goes but the other thing i wanted to note, not sure it's a binary thing, the executive branch does it or congress does it, i agree with the panel up here that the federal government should be doing a lot less especially the executive branch. you can imagine a world and we used to live in this world quote again where we have a presidential election at half the country is okay with that and the other half is also okay with it. the last several cycles half the country is livid, end of the world, this is a catastrophe and half the country is ecstatic. that only comes about when y

of federal regulations which fail the majority questions doctrine at issue in west virginia versus epa likely the most important supreme court case of our lifetime decided last year. and third, the president's power to use executive authority to shutdown redundant federal agencies to reorganize the federal government accordingly. that's what we're going talk about today if -- [applause] thank you. now before i get into those details of the first five agencies we will shut down, and the basis for resending a broad swath of federal regulations it's first and most importantly worth understanding why it hasn't happened yet. this vision is not an original vision. [laughter] i'll be the first to admit that. good presidents, excellent presidents -- from reagan to trump have spoken to the same ideal i give credit to donald trump for taking my steps than have been taken in a generation in the direction with the schedule f exception late aid by many in this room that was a step forward. but in order to actually get this job done we're going to have to confront several myths that have been perpet

now the head of the air division of the epa. now, you know this this is not just an esoteric issue, is that stephen griles? no, no, that's jeffrey holmstead. the on the the cdc, according to the cdc, one out of every six american women now has. so much mercury in her womb that. her children are at risk for a grim inventory of of really terrible diseases autism, blindness, mental retardation and cognitive impairment, a liver, heart, kidney disease. i have so much mercury in my body. i got my levels recently that dr. david carpenter who is the national authority on mercury told me that if i were a woman of childbearing years, i would have children with cognitive impairment, he said. probably a permanent. i could loss of 5 to 7 points. well, today are 630,000 children who are born every year in this country who've been subjected to levels of mercury in the womb. the clinton administration was addressing that this new data that we've gotten over the 15 years, you know, as an emergency, which it really is, this is a national epidemic

if you go through all of the agencies and the department of agriculture, interior and energy and epa, virtually all the sub secretaries and the political appointees are polluters as i show in my book from the worst industries. there is nothing wrong with having business people in the government and that is a good thing to bring competence and expertise. as i show in my book in these cases of all of these individuals i have entered government not for public service but to specifically subvert the chart -- the largest -- the laws they are charged with enforcing. host: is there anything the bush administration has done right? guest: the diesel rule is a good rule. you are brave that against 430 perhaps now 500 really catastrophic decisions or disastrous decisions some of them catastrophic and it is not much of a record. i have gotten great reviews for this book even from republican publications like "the new york post." this is not an anti-republican book, it has traditionally be the dutchman the party of conservatism but they have taken conserve out of conservatism. host: arlington heig

does give, the nominees the chance to talk about how improving the department of defense improving epa, the department of transportation and other cabinet positions are going to work for the american people how having a stronger country suspect burden by regulations i can't bull can't move forward while he may see it agency a threat i see it as an opportunity for people to see the president trump has appointed people that are reflective what vote that american people with he overwhelmingly made in november. >> of course, and "wall street journal" does a nice job of going through, the senate, and where they see each nominee i know you will lead epa nominee lee zeldin's hearing thursday part of as you know duffy's hearing tomorrow what are your expectations what are you thinking about asking in temperatures are a of getting some reveal about how they will behave? >> well, lee zeldin served in the house great representative from new york seen all types of issues best way to solve the problem regulatory environment last four years epa loaded up with climate issues that stymie to develop an

i don't think that's particularly part of the cut to the epa or pick a similar issue with the department of education. and yet that's the types of things if we do that we will be able to overtime get a handle on our finances. >> host: on take your medicine, democrats will ask the question, and have in recent weeks, why is it only time to take our medicine when a democrat is in the white house? what would you say? >> guest: i would say that's not the case. we are willing to have these cats when we were an office as well. they just rejected them. they have power, agenda and the one accused the debt limit to rollback the entirety of our agenda. it were to roll back the tax cuts. they want robocalled derangement and patience. they wanted to roll back the border wall. we were in a position where we had to recognize what's critical to keep the economy going. we have not been let that happen. if they had commented here's a debt limit increase and we what tenures the spending caps and we have $4 trillion in spending accounts which we had in her budget we would've said great, let's do it. and wha

. >> item number seven treasure island a mobility management agency epa grant overview directors as i mentioned following our last meeting the treasure island mobility management agency and one treasure island were successful in getting this this securing this grant opportunity and turn it over to alex pan from tema to to give you an overview of what we hope to deliver. >> hi everyone i'm alex a transportation planner with cta and tema. i'm happy to be here today with now gonzales is the executive director of one treasure island to present item seven a quick update on the epa community change grant for a collection of projects called treasure island connect. >> this is an information item the epa community change program grant program is designed to help equity priority communities tackle environmental and climate justice challenges through projects that reduce pollution, increase community climate resilience and build community capacity. >> it is funded through the environmental and climate justice program part of the inflation reduction act signed by president biden in 2020 to. we'r

if you look at cases like west virginia versus epa, loper bright and someone, the underlying message those cases is congress, do your job. it is the court reminding other branches of government that they have obligations and responsibilities, obligations that they are not fulfilling. it is congress's job to regularly revise statutes and enact statutes. i spent ten years in the city when. i worked in the city. it was the regular practice for congress to revisit the major of the statutes authorizing agency power. every six, seven, eight years, that was something that congress its regular course it stopped in the 1990s because the congressional at the time didn't like the fact that they would lose votes on amendments. and some of you may even remember when that happened in the mid-nineties with several environmental bills starting the practice for those laws where you could get away with it, no longer engaging in the regular process reauthorization, which means our statutes aren't up to date to deal with the problems we need to deal with today. but that's not the court's fault, and i wo

at the rabbinic prosecutor i have spent 45 years fighting these guys litigating is the irs and the epating against every federal department litigating against radical left-wing groups and so forth and so on. i takes a different kind of mindset to fight these people. not litigation paint by the numbers. school choice, we one that landmark legal foundation. bill clinton being held in contempt we felt that complaint in arkansas years ago epa held contempt for destroying records, we did that. i can go on and on and on. sometimes you are representing somebody or woul when you are commenting on a case don't be so defensive. don't worry about a loss. you don't do that in football. you do not do that in any sport. you do not do it in the military. go on the offensive. the worst thing supreme court could have said is we are not interested in this case and you will be right back where you are. let me tie the supreme court said it wasn't interested in this case, it would bear the brunt of what it decides. because this is not going away. this is not going away. the floodgates have opened. this is

what is going to have to happen the new epa director that president trump is going to bring in, he isng to have to get involved. he is going to have to get involved in what is going on in california. it's obvious that these people have no clue whatsoever of what to do, how to do it. and so our new epa director can get involved in this, put some stipulations down on how we're going to help them. and, again, as you said, we need to help california. it is a beautiful state. unfortunately, a lot of that state don't believe in all this blue madness. but, we're going to help everybody out. and, unfortunately, the american taxpayers across the country are going to have to pay that even the people in north carolina, that are under devastation as we speak, in hawaii as we speak. it's just absolutely amazing. >> laura: a lot of people are worried about land grabs and losing -- losing their single family home to high rises with high density affordable housing. a lot of the people are concerned about that as well, senator. hegseth hearing. we have addressed this on the show. but, the left is apop

to see that and maybe to be more specific with your question, , everybody that comes in whether it's epa, a lot of connection pete hegseth on-duty, a talking about that role and will of energy and all those things. it's hard to find one topic that spans every part of the administration as much as energy. >> tell me more about your conversation with pete hegseth. >> i shouldn't have brought that up. listen, to me i take very seriously the role of the senate has in the constitution for advice and consent. so when he came to see me, i have been quite a bit of research on him but not enough. i asked him and he said to me for five names of people that you want me to talk to who can tell me who the real chief is there a very welliver as an elected official the what's out there in the news may or may not be accurate and wanted to know exactly what was accurate. the day before five names. i called a and occult some additional people that he didn't give me because i want to know who he really is i spell that a message of a number of books, i'm going to book but you tell which one you want me to r

we would show up at the obama epa on a friday and we would see things from window guidance on a chemical facility. can we do this? what you think of that? there will be on site at the facility on monday. i think it can be across the board. i think once we can get inflation down, interest rates down then i think we can have proper housing. >> i hope you will indulge me on a bit more of a personal question. you live for many years in a london. you looked in the northeast united states they are back in her home state of south carolina. one reaction i've heard from a number of folks on the political right is that in the wake of donald trump's experience in his criminal trial a lot of people come to believe that if you are someone who holds conservative political conviction it is no longer very wise for you if you or someone of means in particular someone who might be a target to reside in a deep blue municipality or state. someone who is a lifelong brooklyn resident, that is a dismaying thought. i wonder how you think about that. when you think and speak to other like-minded folks people who

it's just a very different situation to have an epa have a cq, have a doctor. that was constituted to deliver equity and justice goals and a just tremendous to have there very few think tanks who equity and justice as a lens so i think about friend dr. anabaptist at the new school who's just doing incredibly rigorous about what would this look like if you really thought about the outcomes for real people where this is going. and so when you have that quality of analysis meeting, people who feel it's part of their mandate from the president down to listen then you're getting to actionable or policies that work instead of a situation where you're just trying to as often as an environmental advocate trying to slow down the process because can't get anyone to listen to you and you can't get the funding to think about what right actual policy to generate the right outcome. yeah, i think think all these questions in the end questions of power and it left to their own devices our institutions will follow the path of least resistance, which means that the people with t

it is the overregulation of the epa. that's his word and my words. we watched this happen. he set of all the problems we had all the overregulation the one that scared us the most was the water bill. as you know there are a lot of people, a lot of liberals would refer a a trip for ticket jurisdiction away from the states and give it to the federal government. and it was quite an effort there. i bring that up and that is an example because you have as you and i discussed in your department that you're going to be responsible for the office of advocacy. now, the office of advocacy is where it's an independent office and its purpose is to advocate on behalf of small businesses to other agencies and weigh in on the rulemaking. during the last a recession te office have been pretty much ignored. you were going to have to start from a zero-based have given a lot of thought how you have this office and advocacy, that are available to people who was designed for originally? >> thank you very much. if i have the privilege of being confirmed i would really like to strengthen the offi

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i call upon president trump and the head of all of these agencies the irs, epa, whatever, to have theurage to calm forward. to fire anyone that retaliates against them. i think we have a very limited window of time to do this in the next year to keep the pendulum swinging. i know what you are thinking. maybe you will face retaliation one day. maybe it is not worth it. maybe it is not worth the pain and the sacrifice. i go back to a guy like aaron who told me he will tell his grandchildren one day about what he did the two paraphrase shakespeare, this is the story that the good man shall teach his son. you will be remembered from this day until the ending of all time because the truth is eternal. you can be part of a group like this, the few, the happy feel. the band of brothers. for he today who sheds his blood with me shall be my brother. wherever you are, wherever you come from. this day shall make you a man and men who are asleep will stand occurs they are not here. there is a flashlight on the phone, i want you to turn it on. right here right now i will introduce you to some of th

i would expect lee zeldin at epa. he'll have he'll be the the leader there. so they're going to peel back these these regulations at the same time. a key question we're following on capitol hill is just what do republicans do about president biden's trademark climate law, the inflation reduction act, where there are a whole lot of subsidies in there to support these clean energy technologies. and you're seeing republicans talk about, well, maybe we can repeal some of that to pay for their big tax cut bill that they want to do in reconciliation. so there's going to be some interesting tensions in this trio, because someone like burgum, you know, he's supported some of these technologies in north dakota. so where does he stand? he actually has a higher level than the other two nominees. he was actually appointed energy czar. he's he's chairing this new national energy council that trump created. so he'll really play a coordinating role across the government. how does he stand? but again, chris wright someone who's who's more skeptical of of subsidies of policy

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tide free and gentle liquid is epa safer choice certified.morning, the wildfires in southern california continue to tear through homes and livelihoods. for nbc news' jacob soboroff, it has hit close to home. here's his report. >> reporter: i grew up in pacific palisades. born and raised here. and i've never seen anything like this. we've had a lot of fires. and even evacuated sometimes. but nothing like this. the whole town is gone as we knew it. this is the palisades public library. it's still on fire. i brought my kids here. this was like the pride of the community when this thing was built. the weight of it all, i think, is very, very intense to think about. >> in my 26 years, this could be one of the top most devastating fires i've seen. >> rorter: what happens in a situation like this, where the high school's destroyed? you've got churches destroyed. you've got the two supermarkets in the community destroyed. how do you come back from something like this? >> you come back one day at a time. >> reporter: to me, sunset boulevard is the hea

debris recovery and removal in los angeles, and the first step of that is coordinated between fema, epa and the army corps of engineers to remove the hazardous debris before you can get in to remove it all. and that hazard debris includes things like propane tanks, electric vehicles, battery. then the monumental task of removing the rest of that debris can begin, but it's a monumental task. and i've activated 500 marines from a base in pendleton to stand by to help in search and rescue, airlift support, and food and water distribution. and i want to be clear, we're not waiting until those fires are over to start helping the victims. we're getting them help right now, as you all know. people impacted by these fires are going to receive one-time payment of $770 one-time payment, so they can quickly purchase things like water, baby formula, and prescriptions. so far, nearly 6000 survivors have registered to do just that. and $5.1 million has gone out. and i encourage everyone, everyone who has been impacted to get assistance. go to disasterassistance.gov or call 1-800-621-3362. let me repe

the epa can promulgate a rule that devastates farmers. a farm that's been in a family for generations can be under water just like that and they don't know who to talk about it. ranchers are impacted. none of these folks are ultimately ever held accountable. you don't know their name. the title is am big us with and they're in an agency you've never heard of. in the loper bright case, it dealt a significant blow to the power of the administrative state. noaa, which was attempting to force fishermen in that case, to pay out of their own pocket for federal observers on their own boats. there are many, many more examples than just this particular carricks but this one made it to the supreme court. they had an impactful decision. and real americans have been impacted by this bloated bureaucratic mess that's developed over the decades. while the administrative state is still at grave threat, the good news is president trump will soon occupy the white house, doge will soon get to work and we can finally have some real momentum to dismantle the

we will rely on the epa and the corps of engineers to be part of that technical assistance help to support the safe removal so that ultimately we can rebuild. one thing we will start doing in the next couple days is starting the discussion on, how do we rebuild? not only rebuild but bring together state, federal and local agencies. right now we are focused on meeting the immediate needs of those displaced but already starting to work on recovery and rebuild and the full weight of the federal government and the resources you have authorized to help california in that endeavor. pres. biden: what do you think the biggest challenge is? go ahead. bob: i think the biggest challenge will be the mental health stress that is put on individuals who have lost everything. fires are so drastic, they destroy everything very quickly. individuals do not have a lot of notice to leave. i think there will be a significant mental health strain , followed by a need to help individuals recover and rebuild. the vice president is exactly right. i suspect many are underinsured. insurance is difficult to get and so

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