the e.p.a. is not using its power fairly and shoring its enformts is arbitrary and reliable, capricious and enduly is he veemplet but "the post" editorial board didn't see armendarez as an isolated incident. they also called out e.p.a.'s actions in other recent pry-promile -- high-profile misuse of power. e.p.a. insisted that an idaho couple, the sacaets stopped construction on a home because it violated the clean water act. the court ruled unanimously 9-0 that e.p.a. had exceeded its authority in pursuing the sacets and was ensured that they and other people who find themselves in similar situations can overcome the e.p.a.'s assertion of whether or not their property contanksed jurisdictional wetlands without submitting to the permit process. a mere two days later, the e.p.a. was again called out for overreaching their authority on water issues. then on march 23, the u.s. district court ruled, the e.p.a. overreached in revoking a permit to arch coe after the army corps of engineers had already g

why the e.p.a. give 150,000 to a university of building scientists for environmental governance in china? why did usaid give the asia foundation almost $2 million, $1.7 million, to build environmental governance in china? why did usaid give half a million dollars to american bar association to build environmental governance in china? don't we have some things in the united states where we could use $500,000 grant so our local communities? couldn't they use some help? instead, we sent it to china. but first of course, we board it from china. we have to repay china and the interest in order to give it to them. why did usaid give $3,000 to the university of massachusetts to improve the quality of judicial education in china? we are giving them $300,000 in order to improve judicial education in china. why did they give $200,000 to the university of pacific to enhance the rule of law in china? why did usaid give $55,000 to an n.g.o. to be the administrator of china program evaluations? did usaid give $2 m

the e.p.a. 's issuing new storm water regulations for existing buildings to requiring costly clean water act permits. they're doing this for ditches on family farms. thousands of america's jobs have already been lost, and others are on the chopping block just due to these rules. not a just law that has been passed but the rules that come out from this administration. each time that the e.p.a. claims that the benefits of the rules vastly outweigh the costs, but the costs are real in terms of real dollars to the economy and the benefits are unknown. the administration claims that the benefits are in so-called -- quote -- "saved future health care costs." that's how they define it, saved future health care costs. the e.p.a. and this administration has a history of understating the costs and of overstating in my opinion the benefits. the e.p.a.'s math on the benefits and the costs of their rules is not even close to being accurate. now, this has been verified in testimony before the senate environmen

so far, the e.p.a. s removed more than 100,000 pounds of tce and five billion gallonses of contaminated drinking water. officials admit there's decades of work to be done there. we are still waiting to hear what the cancer registry finds and we will pass that on to you. nbc bay area news. >> steven, thank you. this report getting a lot of attention from a lot of different people, especially the residents of mountain view. if you have a tip for our investigative unit, call 888-996-tips or send us an e-mail directly. >>> still ahead here, talk about dirty politics. a brawl that erupted between lawmakers. we're going to show that to you next. >>> i'm marianne far favro. >> this wild and erratic and 571,000 with wind at 52 miles per hour. change this is friday, including sierra snow. >>> a confession in a landmark criminal case a 51-year-old new jersey man has signed a confession in the murder of 6-year-old etan patz back in 1979. since the 33rd anniversary of the boy's disappearance, they fear it's just a f

we're waiting on federal regulation to go beyond that and the e.p.a. has been doing a study but at the end of the year so in the cases where the regulations do apply but it seems like as you just said they don't apply to a majority of fracking sites here in the u.s. what is the likelihood that even in these scenarios they'll be enforced i think that the federal government can be enforcing these but as far as we know one of the big provisions of these rules is disclosure of the chemicals that the companies bring to the ground back industry has been trying to keep those chemicals some of them trade secrets for years but they won't have to disclose these chemicals until after they're done drilling and that's one big hole in that in this rule that you know people who want to test their water before the drilling they get a baseline are nice of what was there before the drilling won't be able to do that so it sounds like it'll be too late the damage will be already done by the time people know what's what kind of chemicals are in the water the damage could al

now, you think that these companies are going to have to close down because the e.p.a. oing to be so restrictive, they talk about to make sure that the bad stuff doesn't get into the air or something like that, they would have to put some enclosures which you say would be effectively to dome these companies much like they domed springfield in the simpsons movie. >> absolutely. they use the term enclosure but do we want to call it a tent? do we want to call it a dome? what's clear is it's economically infeasible to be able to do what is suggested and their data leading up to the making of this rule is both technically and scientifically flawed and we're asking them to reconsider that. >> sure and from what i read in your letter and other information as well, the proposals that they are suggesting would cost these companies so much money, it could also bankrupt them. >> oh, it will. and you're talking about 500 jobs in the near term and the jobs are only one part of the problem. then we have to buy that material from china and other places where we have competitors, you kn

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guard media and their high tech competitors the entire gamut from left to right top to bottom so if you're a texas energy baron and you want to blow up e.p.a. regulations on toxic coal ash and reach out to d.p.p. where you'll have first access to the public relations team to promote your corporation and give it a good name in the community second access to their advertising team to run smears against the e.p.a. and job killing regulations and third access to a lobbyist to whip up support for your e.p.a. agenda on capitol hill and even write the law for you mitt romney's bain capital did just that in two thousand and eleven giving w p p three hundred twenty thousand dollars to monitor tax reform development and here's what's most troubling p.p. runs operations in one hundred seven different nations including the united states it's like an unofficial branch of government that knows no national boundaries this is a libertarians wet dream a one world corporate government that answers only to profits instead of principles and it shows that those of us who want to restore a true democracy represented by we the people and not corporations still h

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the e.p.a. is now acting on claims from scientists that gas from cows is seriously contributing to global warming the environmental protection agency is now reportedly considering a tax on belching bovines. well when i hear about dinosaurs. turns out that this is a new report from british scientists and they said that basically the dinosaurs they also warmed the planets to all the gas. plants and all they meant it. total of five hundred twenty million tonnes per year of global methane which is they say the level comparable to the total given off today by animals and industrial activity so they make part of their way to extension so the dinosaurs farted a lot. no wonder they you know all their names and. i've heard of another theory though i've heard another theory that. climate change caused all these plants like ferns to die out around the time of the dinosaurs and actually constipation because of these plants disappearing like the dinosaur extinctions so i mean make up your mind sciences it jus

company defended the product saying the laundry detergent products are enzyme free and approved by the e.p.a. for the design of the environmental program, recognizing safer chemistry. we encourage the consumers to keep the products out of the reach of children as with any household chemical. the question, shouldn't it be up to the parents to keep this stuff out of the reach of children? medicines and toxic substances, they're a no-brainer. shouldn't this be, too? >> and i think it would be ideal if consumers were educated enough to know what they need and the parent is doing the laundry and that laundry detergent is nearby. >> sure. >> and there is no expectation that it's going to be that poisonous. >> right. right. don't buy it if you have young children? is that your best advice? >> i think children need to educate theses to keep it away from young children as they would other medications and understand all a child has to do is stump it to the mouth and a large amount of extremely concentrated winder soap goes around. expect the worse. it may not happen but they should expect the child to

since the toxic control substances act that was enacted in 1976, the e.p.a. has faced the daunting challenge to investigate more than 84,000 chemicals in commerce and their track record for success has been poor. of the tens of thousands of chemicals on the market place, only 200 have been identified for further investigations and only five have been regulated. weekly, there are news reports highlighting a new study of chemical concern found in everyday products in our homes, in our schools, in our places of work. these reports have caused growing concern amongst consumers because we've seen links, links have been -- there's been studies that have linked these chemicals to rising causing of cancer, autism, learning disability, diabetes, asthma, obesity, disorders and others. these are disorders families are going to face, anyone of these. so this is what we need to know, are these affecting outcomes. is there a relationship? as a mother of young children who are most vulnerable to chemical exposure, i'm kick particularly concerned about what chemicals affect t

and distribution play, not a power generation utility, which means they don't need to worry about the e.p.alike so many of the other higher-yielding coal burning like american electric power. one part of the country where residential construction is still thriving. which means more customers for con ed too. needless to say con ed like every other company on this list has a phenomenal record of raising its dividend. just like conversion from oil to nat gas. i think it's going to make it pretty easy to raise the dividend this year for ed. second there's sherwin-williams. don't talk about it enough. the paint company. small 1.2% yield. but wow, terrific track record of dividend boosts having increased their payout at a 20% compound annual growth rate since 1980. we know from last quarter the paint business isn't strong -- it's strong. it isn't just the great weather. a lot of people are critical because they say it's strong because it's so nice out. uh-uh. we know this because inside paint is selling just as well as outside paint. plus their raw costs are coming down. a lot of things going she

multiple environmental studies by the navy, e.p.a. and congress have concluded the water was highly contaminated. chemicals like benzine, p.c.e. and t.c.e. were as high as 280 times the level considered healthy. the federal agency for toxic substances says those chemicals can cause leukemia, bladder, kidney and breast cancer. what's the status of the cancer now? >> right now i have incurable inoperable cancer. i'm terminal. >> reporter: he filed a claim with the veterans' administration to designate his cancer as a service-related illness. that would provide his wife youth with an extra $1,100 a month in survivor benefits. >> i want to make sure she's taken care of when i'm gone. >> reporter: that's the number one worry? >> that's my number-one worry. >> reporter: the v.a. has denied 75% of these claims. 1,200 more cases are pending. no one with the v.a. would go on camera, but a department statement said scientific and clinical evidence is not sufficient to establish a presumptive association between service at camp lejeune and any su

i am asking the e.p.a. o take immediate action to review sites that have not yet been tested smed theals not enough. after the results come in, we need to take action to clean up residual conteem nation. last week the c.d.c. lowered by half the recommended allowable limit for lead exposure to young children so we must ramp up our efforts to address the problem. this problem link earlsering in our soil. we need to address it now. too many young lives are depending on our action. too many children in too many urban school districts suffer from behavior problems, suffer from intelligence proficiency full, because they've had far too high content in their blood of lead levels innd that retards groanl, ricts learning, causes behavioral problems. it is a serious, serus public health problem. it's the paint on our -- on the walls in these old homes and it is the lead, it is the lead and the pnt ohe walls, it is the lead in the soil in their homes and neighborhoods and playgrounds. it really does call for real actio

supervisors sponsor something requiring property owners at the time of lease up to have the equivalent of an e.p.a. pamphlet but like any e.t.a. say you know these are the things you have to watch out for. the time element from the city journeys office they answer to your first question is no the city has no authority to. regulate or in really interpret federal laws. your second question i don't know if i have a ready answer for you i have not. seen any laws where the city imposes requirements on landlords to include specific terms in their leases i know that we do have requirements that when property is actually sold that there are certain disclosures that are made as part of the sale but i'm not sure about a lease. and so i had another question for staff if i may which is you know we're not the only city with an old building stock in highly densely populated areas and thriving commercial so i'm wondering if we've done any research on what boston new york does l.a. how did they deal with this issue they all have the same problem of old buildings narrow stairways steps lots of people coming in. ri

. >> meantime, president obama and the e.p.a. nd new green initiative. the make-over covers everything except the race cars themselves. huh? nascar will start using recycled napkins and cups at the races but the cars will all be the same. that's because green nrpg just won't cut it. the cars average about 5 miles to the gallon and consume 2 million gallons of fuel. >> most blushing brides fear rain on their wedding day. but kandra had to duck a tornado. a twister touched down a few miles away, look at that, from her ceremony. she and her husband finished saying their vows outside when they looked down the aisle and saw the funnel cloud. the kansas couple continued on even posing for pictures afterwards. now, that's a wedding shot. >> no kidding. >> it wasn't photo shopped. that's the real deal. all right, brian, how about some nba action? >> all right. i'll tell you what, it was almost like a night at the ufc. string it together. a brutal night in the nba and not just for the pacers. danny granger leaving game five with a sprained

health care regulation or if it's manufacturing regulation and things that are come interesting the e.p.a. the uncertainty that it creates. the manipulation of the marketplace. it is something that is not serving our country well. i think what the american people are saying is enough is enough. and it is time for us to begin to roll back regulation, roll back some of this taxation, roll back this government overreach and let people get back to doing the business they want to do. host: a tweet asks are there regulations you would support? some our tweeters were talking about the original glass-steagall, if that were up -- >> all of this conversation available in our video library at c-span.org. we'll go next live to the peterson institute. pete peterson on your screen holding their annual fiscal summit. about to hear from house speaker john boehner who is expected to talk about the debt ceiling and federal spending. this is live coverage here on c-span. >> for nearly 22 years. as the 61 stth speaker -- 61st speaker of the house of representatives, john boehner is at the certainty of every

and how the administration has delayed offshore drilling permits, and how the administration uses the e.p.a. to block domestic energy production. since the administration is against so much, what is it in favor of? then daulton handed me this, yes, a tire gauge. and reminded me that the president touted his energy plan when he said this, we could save all the oil they are talking about getting off drilling if somebody would just -- if everybody would just inflate their tires and get tune-ups. really? that's it? more air in our tires? now, you know, mr. speaker, more hot air will save us all. now there's an energy plan we can all be proud of. and that's just the way it is. i yield back. the speaker pro tempore: the gentleman yields back. the gentlelady from minnesota is recognized. for what purpose does does she rise? ms. mccollum: to address the house for one minute. revise and extend my remarks. the speaker pro tempore: without objection, so ordered. ms. mccollum: mr. speaker, today i rise to honor my dear friend and outstanding tribal leader, chief executive marge anderson. after 30 years

it creates uncertainty for the health care bill, the dodd/frank bill, e.p.a. regulations. u can't assume the law of the land is the law of the land for more than 24 months. >> here is the tension. six, seven months ago, when i was writing politico columns, i wrote something. i'm on a deadline. i wrote crazy never wins. >> that was a good one. >> if you are crazy, you are not going to win the republican nomination for president which is the case. that's the reality on the presidential level but on the congressional level, it's just the opposite. so, you actually not only have the political difference but an institutional difference where moderations are rewarded on the top level but below, chaos. crazy comments. >> which is why congressional approval rating is even with foot fungus. nobody likes congress. the white house might be held in low esteem, but not as low esteem as congress. that's going to be the governing reality for some time until congress can work together. if you talk to members you say how can it change? it's cyclical. voters are going to reject partisanship

and sell them as some kind of application and some of the applications make sense i mean both drones and whims would make sense for example for e.p.a. monitoring so either from for monitoring industrial farms or for monitoring bills or for monitoring the environment that all makes sense but the blimp in particular was selling itself as one of the applications as crowd control so they are inches the painting where they're at least claiming to anticipate using these in things like monitoring protests. and we did see the crack at the occupy wall street protests sometimes it was a very brutal crackdown you saw police in riot gear wearing pepper using pepper spray some say that the police reaction seems more like a military reaction so could drone blends be used and circumstances like that. yeah i mean i think at this point you're talking surveillance and frankly drones and limbs that far as i know are both better you know they're they're more programs for more rural areas but they're certainly being sold for those purposes and you know who knows what a local police chief is going to feel obliged to do or feel empowered to do once they'

president has said the part that goes from oklahoma to texas is fine with him, but not the part that requires e.p.a.'s go ahead. that's the third thing. let's have an energy program that takes advantage of everything we have, including the keystone pipeline. finally, what the president and our democratic friends in the senate could do is to join the house of representatives and clear the deck of all of the legislation that's been piling up here on the senate floor that isn't getting done that we all know has to get done before the end of the year. these things are not optional. this is our homework. this is stuff we have to do. and it's all being put aside for the lame-duck session. the lame-duck session is the time in between the election, when new members of congress have been elected, and the time they're sworn in; essentially,ty end of the first week in november -- essentially at the end of the first week in november to the end of december. i'll be a lame duck. i'm not running for reelection. i'd rather the new senator for my state make the decision for the country. but because all of these thi

the last 3 1/2 years. let's think about this. obamacare is a squeeze on insurance companies. you look at his e.p.a. what's he doing to the coal industry? you look at his desire to raise taxes on oil companies, to raise taxes overall on people like entrepreneurs who run small businesses. >> now, the white house would say even this week they'll say denny, you're wrong. look at what we're doing this week, we're partnering with shell oil. who would have thought that was going to happen, right? we're going to open up part of the alaska drilling area off the coast of alaska. we are pro business. >> so this is an election ploy, right? not pro business for 3 1/2 years and i'd push back on you a little bit here. i don't think the government's hand needs to be in everything. and i also think that it isn't up to the president now to decide he's going to flip his 3 1/2 year record. by the way, i have learned that you have to watch his feet, not his lips. he says things that don't really happen. >> you guys have partnered with apple. knew steve jobs, been able to work with him on the iphone and ipad. when steve

you have -- to get the thousand dollars, you have to get -- there is a list of e.p.a. les from which it choose. and, of course, the lexus is on there and all these luxury hybrids are on there. yeah you can get it my favorite by the way towns represents brooklyn, new york how much do you need a car in brooklyn, new york. he is spending $11,500 a year of our money on his lease and his median income of the people he represents is just over 30 grand. >> perhaps the tad out of touch. seton motley president of less government. thanks for being with us, sir. >> appreciate it thank you. >> folks, let us know how you feel about it at ff weekend. the self-proclaimed mastermind of the 9/11 terror attacks is a step closer to justifiable this morning. khalid sheikh mohammed set to be arraigned at guantanamo bay today. we will go live to gitmo. catherine herridge top of the hour. then his death is a shock to fans. nfl legend junior seau emotional pain much deeper than what his friends and family understood? and what did that have to do with playing professional football? we'll explor

increase of $96 million above f.y. 12, and the bill makes critical investments in manufacturing, export promotion, and job creation, including a task force and e.p.a. grant program to incentivize u.s. companies to bring their manufacturing and services activity back to the united states, particularly back to the u.s. from china. the bill includes $138 million including $128 million for the manufacturing extension partnership, $21 million for an advanced manufacturing competitive research program to make the american manufacturing sector a source of job growth. the bill also makes critical investments in weather forecasting and disaster preparedness to save lives and protect property, including funding above the president's request for the national weather service operations and tsunami preparedness. also included is an increase of $126 million for the weather slight acquisition including the full amount requested for the new j.p. jpss satellite. this is necessary to better protect americans from natural disasters such as tornadoes, hurricanes, and tsunamis. just look what we have seen in the midwest this year, kansas, and alabama, places like that

the bill prohibits the e.p.a. administrator from promulgating any regulation that takes into consideration the emission of a greenhouse gas in order to address climate change using the clean air act. and, third, our bill will protect agriculture by reducing unnecessary regulatory burdens. it amends the federal insecticide, fungicide and rhodendocide act. this provision of the bill will also ensure that diseases like the west nile virus can be managed through mosquito abatement. it is very important for communities in utah to be able to address these issues without constantly seeking approval from federal overlords. the bill also stops the e.p.a. from imposing more stringent dust standards each year, for one year. additionally, it would afford states and localities the flexibility to address any rural dust issues before the federal government would have the authority to do so. for the life of me, i do not understand the administration's stance on energy production. the department of energy claims that there are more