seldom has that mission brought our goals more closely in alignment than it has under the tenure of lisa jackson. with lisa watching, the epa has used the authority it has to question mountaintop removal and to require special permits and special scientific scrutiny of those who would remove mountains to get to coal. with lisa watching, the epa has restored protections against pollution in a number of waterways that have been put in a kind of legal limbo by supreme court desomething'ses and with lisa watching, the epa has moved swiftly to call carbon emissions for what they are, a pollutant that is warming our planet and must be checked and must be regulated. seldom have we walked more closely together in fact than we have in these recent months when we have joined in efforts to try to finally do something about climate change. we know we can put americans back to work, reduce our reliance on foreign oil and help to create a healthier future for ourselves and our children, by taking on this widening scourge and working together, the epa andette nrdc are making together to progress toward that go

administrator lisa jackson. ray suarez begins "patchwork nation," our weeklong series on the state of the nation's economy, tonight from philadelphia. and jeffrey brown looks at whether grand opera has a grand future. >> lehrer: that's all ahead. but now, the day's other news, as reported by the newest member of our team, hari sreenivasan. he comes to us from cbs news, among other journalistic places. he's in our newsroom now. welcome, hari. >> thanks, jim. it's good to be here. thousands of anti-government protesters clashed with security forces in iran's capital today. protests erupted in other cities as well. there was no word on arrests, but web sites reported at least one person was wounded. we have a report narrated by jonathan rugman of independent television news. >> reporter: they burned a picture of the republic founder, its supreme leader, and then the president. iran's protest movement back on the streets today, its anger at the regime apparently as fierst as ever. death to the dictator these student

. >> ifill: admintrator lisa jackson, fe travels, thanks for joininus. >> thanks for havingme. >> lehrer: finally tight, reinventi the met. jeffrey brown ports. >> reporter: and opera doesn get any grander than at new york's metropolitan opera. still, t pce for the eatest ngers and biggest speacles like the small army that filled thetage for a recent performce of aida. but behind the snes here like everywhere el in the classical music world, is the lming question. how to keep opa not only alive but thriving. >> i'm notrying to pretend that opera is a populist fair it is not. it is highart. but operaas a high a fm sti should be aessible and understandable byhe broest possible, intelligent dience. >> reporter: tee years ago peter gell became general manager of the met with a mandate to ritalize a great institution thatn his words was in danger of becoming arstically irrelevant. for gel it was a homecoming of sorts >> i was ansher when i was 16 years old. >> repter: oh, really. >> yea >> reporter: you've come long way. >> not geograically. >>eporter: gelb a life-lonnew yorker first ade a na

the head of the environmental protection agency lisa jackson is in denmark. >> if we do not act to reduce greenhouse gases, the planet we leave to the next generation will be a very different place than the one we know today. >> reporter: other countries have gone out of their way to show the debate is urgent, the stakes high. leaders of the maldives-- a chain of islands in the indian ocean-- staged a cabinet meeting under water to emphasize fears of rising sea levels that could literally wash away their nation. nepal's cabinet took to the frigid heights of mount everest to declare the melting himalayan glaciers pose a threat to them. all this in the face of growing evidence from scientists that global warming risks more hurricanes, coastal flooding, disease and massive population migration. the best way to head that off, they argue, is by reducing the amount of carbon humans spew into the atmosphere. but because that entails costly changes in the forms of energy used, there's no guarantee the 192 countries meeting these two weeks will reach a deal. already, major players, including the u

administrator lisa jackson finally issued this week. the finding lays the groundwork for the e.p.a. to regulate greenhouse gas emissions across the entire economy on the grounds that global warming is hazardous to human health. from the start the obama team has wielded the e.p.a. action as a club, warning congress that it did not cop up with -- if it did not come up with cap-and-trade legislation, the e.p.a. would act on its own. and in a far more blunt fashion than congress preferred, now as one anonymous administration official menaced again this week -- quote -- "if congress doesn't pass this legislation, the e.p.a. is going to have to regulate in a command-and-control way, which will probably generate even more uncertainty." the thing about threats, thoerbgs is that at some point -- though, is at some point you have to act on them. the e.p.a. has been sitting on this finding for months much to the agitation of the environmental groups that have been upping the pressure for action. president obama having failed to get climate legislation, didn't want to show up the cope hagan cli

. >> greenhouse gas emissions pose a threat to public health according to lisa jackson.that clears the way for the epa to regulate certain emissions even if congress does not act. this is about half an hour. >> good afternoon, and special hello to those on line and on the phone. the scientific community, the business community, and the policy world has spent decades studying greenhouse gas and climate change. scientists in the united states and around the world have track in the last century and in particular in the last three decades alarming increases in the amount of greenhouse gases in our skies. that increase is deteriorated in the natural balance in our atmosphere and changing our climate. there has and will continue to be debate about how and how quickly climate change will happen if we fail to act, but the studies show the threat is real, as does the evidence before our eyes. polar ice caps crumbling into the ocean, changing migratory patterns, causing droughts and more powerful storms and disappearing coastlines. after decades, climate change has now become a ho

this epa, as soon as president obama got lisa jackson and place, they put an artificial time line onthe group within the epa that was supposed to go out and verify. they issued a report that was suppressed, and they were told point blank that the decision has already been made at the white house, your report is not helpful, it is harmful, stop working on it. i have a copy of that report. i'm sure that mr. sensenbrenner could provide, anybody in this room, and clearly it just a casual review of this report shows they have made a predetermined decision to issue the engagement findings, to act with the facts. this report says that. -- to heck with what the facts are. this report says that. this automatic to sit missile, again, co2 is odorless, colorless, tasteless. i am creating co2 talking to you, when you breathe in and out. and is not harmful to public health, human health in the traditional sense of the term. you have this very esoteric theory that somehow man-made co2 is causing the concentration of the sierra to the rise in the atmosphere and causing all of these things happen in

lisa jackson, head of the environmental protection agency, speaking earlier at the 192-nation climatece in copenhagen says she will take common sense steps to regulate carbon emissions to protect the health of americans, adding that her newly declared power to regulate greenhouse gases will be used to complement legislation pending in congress, not replace it. the president leaves tonight for the climate summit, then will stop in oslo to receive his nobel peace prize. those are some of the latest headlines on c-span radio. we'll cover a second day of the afghanistan strategy, hearing from general petraeus, the head of u.s. central command and u.s. ambassador to afghanistan, carl eikenberry. live coverage begin beginning at 10:00 eastern and on c-span radio and at c-span.org. this afternoon, a senate homeland subcommittee looks at how government ensures diplomatic security. the state department spends nearly $2 billion a year on a security force of more than 30,000 agents an law enforcement professionals. that hearing is live at 2:30 eastern on c-span 3 and at c-span.org. tomorrow live

lisa jackson took the first step toward imposing costly regulations on businesses for emitting carbontop the e.p.a.. just think of what will happen to small businesses and manufacturers hit with the skyrocketing energy bills especially when nations like i'd india and china don't agree to the mandatory emissions limits. with americans facing double digit unemployment, there could not be a worse time for unilaterally disarming our economic growth. small businesses are already feeling anxiety and holding off on hiring. due to the prospect of this national energy tax. government take over of healthcare and other costly policies democrats have in the works. these aren't issues president barack obama, houáq speaker nancy pelosi and democrats in congress will talk about in open copenhagen. but republicans will. also absent from the discussion in copenhagen is the climate gate scandal. recently leaked e-mails reveal climate scientist have along track record of manipulating data to hide scientific q+idence to contradict the global warmi'g establishment to bully citizens and lawmakers into law

administrator lisa jackson, where the federal government is in the process of creating a new partnershipsith our communities, businesses and families in terms of how the federal government does business and invests that money. but even with bold vision and with more value being extracted, we actually are going to need to invest more money. the chinese, for instance, are investing about nine times as much as the united states in their infrastructure needs. we are losing the race for global competitiveness while we see conditions deteriorate here at home. the society of civil engineers has graded american infrastructure at a d and suggest that it require at least $2.2 trillion in the next five years to bring things up to standard. if we act now, there are in fact areas of broad support for more investment, from business, local government and the american people, if this increased money goes to rebuild and renew our country. there is a danger that our current direction will not be as effective as it could be. i am heartened that there appears to be a consensus that we will be spending perhap

here's a news conference held by lisa jackson. >> good afternoon, everyone.a special hello to those who are online and to everyone on the phone. the scientific community, the business community, and the policy world have spent decades studying green house gas solution and climate change of scientists in the united states and around the world have tracked in the last century. and in particular the last three decades alarming increases in the amount of green house gases in our skies. that increase is deteriorating the natural balance in our atmosphere and changing our climate. there has and will continue to be debates about how, and how quickly climate change will happen if we fail to act. but the overwhelming amount of scientific study show that the threat is real, as does the evidence before our very eyes. polar icecaps crumbling into the ocean, changing migratory pat yernses -- patterns of animals, historic droughts, more powerful storms and disappearing coastlines. after decades of this mounting evidence, climate change has now become a household issue. par

jackson, loved balir. what is the difference between donald graham danand blair? >> there is set lisat pretense and desire to reach for opt activity in the newspapers. we do not always live up to that successfully, but that is the rule that we try to follow. donald gramm is of that tradition. >> you went to the university of washington and the university of columbia. you grope for something called -- you wrote for something called "the national observer." it was a weekly newspaper. >> most people thought the writing was sparkling. i loved working for it. on the last date of june, 1977, the chairman of dow jones took a helicopter down from new york to tell us they were closing it down. >> what did you do after that? >> i ended up congressional quarterly as managing editor. i spent 2.5 years at that job and seven years as executive editor in 12 years as ceo and president and turned cheap at congressional quarterly. >> it was owned by the newspaper. it was sold recently to what organization? >> the economist group of london. they focus on congress. the economist emerge tod and hao ceo's