while the e.p.a. appears to be asserting a little bit more of its authority in the states decisions to to use sewage treatment plants to treat waste water for example i mean they've said that they need to be more involved in that process and the way that it works now is that the state is supposed to be working closely with the sewage treatment plant operators to make sure that their plants can actually handle what's in this wastewater the e.p.a. is saying that they need to now be more involved in those decisions so i think in addition to what you've pointed out which is that you know they they finally came to the conclusion last year that drilling in wyoming has led to contamination of groundwater. and they've also released announced last year last summer that they were going to be developing their own rules on wastewater disposal and so we're starting to see them i think do what many environmental activists have been looking for for some time which is to step in you know really dig in and do their own

e.p.a. designated the surface soils operable unit to e.p.a. hard the corps of engineers is their prime contractor to come in and do yard clean ups it's pretty simple you go out and dig up some dirt out of the yard you bring in new clean dirt take the top six inches where it's hot where it's above the cleanup standard if you have some below that and that spot you take the next expenses etc a gay man may spend eighty thousand dollars to redo my yard. about three feet. deep all around ma for law all of the damage all. the best estimate i've gotten from e.p.a. is a little over one hundred thirty million dollars the average cost to remediate a yard by the e.p.a. was seventy thousand dollars per house in ny believe it was ninety five i had some e.p.a. officials come to my office and they told me what they wanted to do i said come go with me so we all got my pick and i drove them up on a chip and i said you folks think you're going to be able to fix this and one e.p.a. official made the statement to me on top of that ship all right over there i'll be

but the best estimate i've gotten from e.p.a. is a little over one hundred thirty million dollars the average cost to remediate a yard by the e.p.a. was seventy thousand dollars per house in not believe it was ninety five i had some e.p.a. officials kind of mafia us and they told me what they wanted to do i said come go with me so we all got my pick and i drove them up on a chip haul and i said if you folks think you're going to be able to fix this and one e.p.a. official made the statement to me on top of that ship all right over there i'll be able to retire here that's their attitude it's not about what's best for these people how can you justify digging up a yard when you have three million tonnes of contaminants across the street could they have done things differently in the twenty storm the mining boom could they have had managed to the waste differently. probably they could've done a better job of it but i think about at that time know should we think about it now damn straight we better think about. yeah the chance bad the

what are we going to do with the e.p.a.? he gave a couple of examples of how they are killing jobs and actually taking an amazing energy source away from the united states, 25% of all the coal in the world is in the united states. we are the saudi arabia of coal. we've got over 300 years' worth of energy in this country, yet as i said earlier, this president is trying to force this country to go into almost exclusive use of green sources of energy, regardless of the cost. and that's where i have a real problem. i don't have a problem with green energy. if the state of south carolina wants to put incentives into place to get the wind energy or alternative energy sources to come and proliferate here, that's their business. but the federal government shouldn't be doing it. if you need any other better example than a half billion dollars going to one company on the solar energy side, that ought to answer your question about the federal government picking winners and losers in the energy business. not how our country works and we

the e.p.a. in san francisco. these are serious allegations against that company. what's next? >> reporter: you're right. this is very serious. the peche.p.a. is being very secretive about what they found. the company is saying they're surprised by what was going on. they say they were blind-sided by this. the owners have pledged to do whatever it takes to clean it up. >> these things are not permissible, that e.p.a. is the environmental cop on the beat. >> the environmental protection agency says simms metal management has until monday to clean up what is visible in these photos. >> this represents only the residue that landed directly there. the presumption is that other residue had been falling all around it and all around it would be the water. >> reporter: the e.p.a. says simms metal management has been polluting the bay with metals, pcbs, mercury, copper and led for years. an annual average of 22,000 tons of scrap metal from cars an boats come through this 13-acre facility get shredded and d

eight days ago, the e.p.a.s first fresh water delivery to dimock after its analysis raised flags. >> our ultimate goal is for everybody to have clean water. that's all. >> reporter: now the e.p.a. will do its own investigation of the water. tony guida, cbs news, new york. >> the last american combat troops left iraq in december. and today, st. louis became the first city in the nation to welcome them home with a parade. about 600 veterans took place as thousands of people in the gateway city lined the route to cheer them on. still ahead, florida businessmen with different takes on the g.o.p. candidates. that story is next. we have access to great specialists, and our pediatrician gets all the information. everyone works as a team. and i only need to talk to one person about her care. we're more than 78,000 people looking out for 70 million americans. that's health in numbers. unitedhealthcare. helping strengthen our bones. caltrate delivers 1200 milligrams of calcium and 800 iu of vitamin d plus minerals. women

they're fighting the e.p.a. ted wettelands now. they joined us yesterday on "fox & friends." >> they don't allow you to get your day in court. it's unamerican. >> that's what they feel. meanwhile, judge andrew napolitano, the host of "freedom watch" joins us live. they bought this plot of land in idaho that they were going to build their dream house on it. out of nowhere, they got the permits to build the house and the e.p.a. said wait a minute, that's wetlands, what are you talking about? it's absolutely dry. >> it's very bizarre. in the intro that you just showed, a true picture of the property, it doesn't appear to be wet. there's no water next to it and there's no water on it. that's a picture of the land right there. >> right. >> here's the law. the law is that when the e.p.a. makes a scientific determination that land is wet, the courts shall not second guess that because supposedly, under the law, the e.p.a. has certain expertise that the court doesn't have. so you say ok, i want to challenge that. i want

and i have to have our mandate as you said it i read it and then the e.p.a. calls her for the regulations in the new york area when it comes to fracking so the government finally wising up or says it's still not enough and discuss it with. people calling like you said for free and fair elections. and we're still reporting from the so. you can hear behind me loud explosions. you know sometimes you see a story and it seems so you think you understand it and then you glimpse something else and you hear or see some other part of it and realize everything you thought you knew you don't know i'm tom hartman welcome to the big picture.

night so what's the emotional and moral toll on those warriors that aren't on the battlefield and the e.p.a. is now issuing new warnings for the water in new york thanks to fracking so as more negative data and proof comes out against this method we have to ask why it hasn't been stopped or you have all that morphia tonight including a dose of happy hour but first let's take a look at the mainstream media has decided to miss. it so there were quite a few things that happened this weekend and i want to get into what i think is perhaps one of the most important developments in just a minute but for those of you that were tuning into the mainstream media this morning to try and get caught up in the news there was one thing and one thing only that was developing. only minutes until that republican field gets a bit less crowded at one less for this big debate before the south carolina primary john holmes who will withdraw from the race in the next hour huntsman says it's time for republicans to unite around the candidate who can best be obama jon huntsman will officially drop out of the race and

on groups to provide them with clean drinking water for drinking washing clothes and bathing but the e.p.a. was going to offer up their help and send clean water up to pennsylvania as well and then in a last minute move they change their mind according to the associated press agency officials wouldn't explain why they decided against a liver in clean water and obviously the residents aren't happy about it several dimmick homeowners are trying to find out who's to blame for this change of heart whether it be the pennsylvania governor or cabot the energy company and when they try to sort it all out the environmental group water defense which was founded by actor mark ruff low is going to send a supply of h two o. to the rural town of democrat maine's under the spotlight as a testing ground for fracking results of which has led to calls to stop that process of natural gas drilling entirely in fact george washington university's school of medicine hosted a conference about the effects of fracking on humans and several doctors have said that a moratorium should be placed on all of the drilling

what are we going to do with the e.p.a.? >> he gave a couple of examples of how they are killing jobs and actually taking an amazing energy source away from the united states, 25% of all the coal in the world is in the united states. we are the saudi arabia of coal. we've got over 300 years' worth of energy in this country, yet as i said earlier, this president is trying to force this country to go into almost exclusive use of green sources of energy, regardless of the cost. and that's where i have a real problem. i don't have a problem with green energy. if the state of south carolina wants to put incentives into place to get the wind energy or alternative energy sources to come and proliferate here, that's their business. but the federal government shouldn't be doing it. if you need any other better example than a half billion dollars going to one company on the solar energy side, that ought to answer your question about the federal government picking winners and losers in the energy business. not how our country works and

we need to cut the e.p.a. it doesn't ever seem to tie spending to value. have with the people that just want to go in sometimes and slash the government budget is there seems to be no differentiation between money that is squandered and investment that creates jobs. head start is a program that is i think invaluable to kids and by starting them early and getting them, ultimately in the long run, won't they do better? so isn't that an entitlement... >> preschool is important, and there are some head start programs that have done well, but if you look at a total analysis of the program, there's a lot of waste and ineffectiveness. from the federal level, it's hard to do things well. you don't find too many federal programs that are working. >> so why do we let them fight our wars? >> we have an authority... at least until recently, the military is now run by congress, by political people, by the president's commander-in-chief, but there's an authority system there. >> jon: but it is civilian controlled. >> we politically manage the programs. the money is not d

the nixon administration created the environmental protection agency, and right now the e.p.a. is in the process of costing thousands and thousands and thousands of people's jobs all over america, and this administration's doing nothing to rein them in. some people have said, well, can congress do something about that? sure we can. we can get rid of the e.p.a. i've been told by some federal authorities, but you don't understand. even though texas has an environmental commission, the t.c.q., there are a handful of states that don't have environmental commissions for their states. so we need one for the whole country. what happened to the ninth and 10th amendment? if it is just inside the state, doesn't involve interstate commerce, then why shouldn't we let the states take care of those issues? instead, the e.p.a. is spending some of their slush fund money to sue states like texas and others. shutting down power plants. and i would have thought today that when the president released his statement about why he was going to deprive tens of thousands of americans' jobs immediately wh

the environmental and public works committee in the senate this committee over seas and directs the e.p.a. and inhofe oversaw the committee as far as environmental by a money goes in off was the faucet and you have a place like this in your home state your chairing the kind of committee that can actually help people and you refuse well we could also know what he was cooking the problem was that in office a soldier of industry fact isn't possible even used to work for the insurance agency owned by the mining companies inhofe is in deep with polluters so he can't just order a buyout because that would prove this land's not fit for people and if it's not fit and someone's got to pay for what got done and that could get expensive so they just pay and hope to make this buyout talk disappear and the citizens that stay but to prove that he was working for auto walk county folks he put together an eighteen million dollar cleanup plan to stand in for a buyout made everyone wait three years while they pulled it together. he was going to move all the chat they were in the math on the plan the same d

in fact i proposed replacing the e.p.a. with an environmental solutions agency that is profoundly different from the e.p.a. so i was trying to find a way to have a debate or a dialogue, if you will, that said we can have different approaches. i oppose cap-and-trade. i testified against it. in fact, i followed al gore the same day he testified in favor. i testified against it. my record on cap-and-trade is clear. and i have consistently owe positioned it. i think that that particular ad was a mistake. and when you do as many things as i've done in a fairly long career, you're going to have an occasional mistake. my attitude is to admit it, be honest about it and move on. >> still ahead, more of that conversation with speaker gingrich. also one-on-one with the top house democrat, nancy pelosi. she's not shy at all about making her 2012 republican nominee prediction. >> he's not going to be president of the united states. that's not going to happen. but let me just make my prediction instead by it isn't going to happen. >>> pl