use a tremendous amount of this persons and the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same amount. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknown's we had to make the decisions that are a series of trade offs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released who are the head of the v.a. so if you say i would to either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power. to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know good and bad but that's a question you needed to know from day one mr nixon for cleve forget about the natural resource to average just for releasin

use a tremendous amount of this persons and the e.p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so the people every five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a fact of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p. these penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released why the head of the v.a. he said if you say i would either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i did chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know good and bad but that's a question you needed to know from day one mr forget about cleve forget about the natural resource rich just for releasing the oil just for relea

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in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering from princeton and is very familiar with the a facts of chemicals because there are scientific unknowns we had to make decisions that are a series of tradeoffs and basically in common language it was either nothing or in moderation. b.p.'s penalties. are tied to how much oil. has been released and why the head of the v.a. so if you say i would either ban or limit the use of dispersants could you have the power to act unilaterally i believe i do chairman but i do want my lawyers to get you a response i know going in but but that's a question you needed to know from day one ms jackson forget about cleaning up forget about all natural resource the average just for releasing the oil just for releasing oil. tins of billions of dollars of foreign well if you can wait. how much oil is released. those pictures down from twenty five billion to maybe one or two billion billion dollars here a billion dollars are you talk

last week, the supreme court agreed to hear a challenge to the e.p.a.'wer plant regulations on the question of whether the agency went too far. >> woodruff: i spoke with gina mccarthy about a number of these issues at e.p.a. headquarters this afternoon. administrator gina mccarthy, thank you very much for talking with us. >> it's great to be here, judy, thanks. >> woodruff: so you've been issuing new regulations, proposed regulations having to do with future coal-fired power plants and then down the road more regulations will be coming on existing coal plants. one of the questions being asked is why the emphasis on this when the country's reliance on coal is coming down with the increased finding that natural gas is less expensive. why, then, the need for all these regulations? >> well, judy, it comes down to public health. it all comes down to making sure that we're leaving our children with a safer, stable, healthier environment. it's all about moving forward with president obama's climate action plan. right now we're looking at two things: one is that

are signs are going crazy but i just don't understand why the e.p.a. allowed banks to be involved in a market that has nothing to do with energy or if i mean you would think the view would say hey people i can get these credits are the energy companies or the refiners and that is exactly who can get the credits however while the they do issue these credits it goes back to what you were saying before this market is built for what wall street salivate for this poorly regulated not a lot of transparency it's built for corruption if you will but it's not corrupt because it's not illegal because the e.p.a. really doesn't have any oversight the u.p.a. created this in an effort you know for like use of renewable energies but then when they created the market they then said oh let's let's let the free markets dictate it you can't create be the market creator and then spout about free markets just don't work that way you have to come in with some sort of regulation but basically they allow the banks to get involved it doesn't function like a regular commodity on

into a wall street backed crony industry with little to no oversight or regulation see years ago the e.p.a. mandated that oil refineries mix ethanol with gasoline or they had another choice by ethanol credits in the form of thirty eight digit renewable identification numbers better known as ren hang on these credits are provided by the government to incentivize the expansion of the renewable fuel industry sounds great now there's a federal requirement on the amount of ethanol credits that you need and if you don't have them you can be fined up to thirty two thousand dollars every day. and of course wall street being as corrupt as it is seized upon this new market and transformed an environmental program into a profit machine by hoarding hundreds of millions if not billions of britons to sell and trade so how does happen and who's hurting as a result of this shady practice joining me now host of a new art to show boom bust area they are all related things there is on my eyebrow having me on and i have to say better than most people reading this is the front page of the new york times about

that is what "beneficial use" meant. >> but the e.p.a. d the bush administration endorsed beneficial use, and now coal ash is recycled in dozens of ways-- as cement substitute, for instance. it's also placed under roads and in deserted mines, and it's added to products from carpets to bowling balls to bathroom sinks. while the industry says the uses have been studied, i asked lisa jackson whether the e.p.a. knows if some of the recycled products are safe. school room carpeting. >> i don't know. i have no data that says that's safe at this point. >> kitchen counters. >> the same. >> 50,000 tons of coal ash by-products have been used in agriculture. now, what's being done, through e.p.a., to look at the use of coal ash in agricultural products? anything? are you--is there a study? is there-- >> i'm not sure that there's any study out there right now. >> how did we get to a place where coal ash is in products without anybody knowing? >> we're here now because coal ash, at this time, isn't a regulated material by the federal government. >> if

on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved b.p. to use carex it under the surface of the water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons a day. and the cult when they decided to do the subsurface injection and use of robot arms to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the gulf that had never been for. four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. will be shared was a set up to protect d.p. . and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of this persons who need p.a. says you got to cut it back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut it back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same amount. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical e

on may fifteenth two thousand and ten the e.p.a. approved use carex at under the surface of the water b.p. and its contractors started injecting thousands of gallons of corrected a day into the cult when they decided to do the subsurface injection the use of robots or to shoot the dispersants down at the blowout site five thousand feet below the surface of the gulf that it never did for. four days later the e.p.a. issued an order giving b.p. twenty four hours to find a less toxic dispersant b.p. chief operating officer doug suttles responded by saying that b.p. would continue to use carex it. was a set up to protect the. and and sort of do a dance for a few days b.p. use a tremendous amount of this persons who need says you got to cut back seventy five percent. and so b.p. cut back seventy five percent but they increased it so much they kept using the same amount. in january of two thousand and nine president obama appointed lisa jackson to head the e.p.a. jackson a louisiana native hold to a graduate degree in chemical engineering f

93% of the employees at the e.p.a. have been furloughed. now, what do they do? they make sure the air we breathe is safe, the water we drink is safe, the rivers we swim in are safe. they make sure that superfund sites are being cleaned up, those toxic brews in there, including things like benzene and arsenic and every other bad thing you can imagine. in my state, there's not one single e.p.a. inspector on the ground. i have established that. and that's the same in many othersment -- many others. 505 superfund sites were being cleaned up -- cleanup suspended. many children live near those sites. there are many schools near those sites. there are many homes near those sites. they are toxic waste dumps. no cleanup.

the e.p.a. has to inspect those at the site and make sure they're safe. well, there's no inspectors. i just told you that. so they're sitting in a warehouse and our farmers are starting to say, where are these pesticides? we need them. this shutdown is mindless. the army core of engineers manages 12 million acres of public lands, recreation areas that host 370 million visits annually. these recreation areas support local businesses like resorts, marinas, outfitters, gas stations, hotels. shut down. last week the corps closed lake mendicino, which is located north of san francisco. lake mendicino hosts half a million visitors annually and visitors spend $12 million at businesses within 30 miles of the lake, supporting 106 jobs and $2.8 million in income. mr. president, those small businesses can't -- they can't go on like this. they can't go on like this. 561 national wildlife refuges are closed because of the shutdownmenshutdown. i say to my friend, senator cardin and i, we're very close friends because we work together deal these issues. he's the chairma

no one showing up at the e.p.a. just one of the places whe no one is going to work. >> all kinds of government activities suspended. no flu monitoring. no irs audits, either. but social security and unemployment checks will go out for now. we have team coverage right now from the white house to capitol hill. let's start with abc's jon karl. >> reporter: george, the shutdown is here. this morning, some 800,000 federal workers are being told to stay home, as government buildings and national parks across the country are closing down. overnight, there was no stopping the shutdown or the finger-pointing. >> senate democrats have offered nothing. yesterday, mr. speaker, they didn't even show up for work. >> what a shameful day this is in the history of the house of representatives. >> reporter: all of the fighting is over a bill that would fund the government for a matter of just six weeks. republicans tried yet again to pass a bill that would tie funding to delaying the key

they won't release the data so these studies are hidden but once they're put out there for review the e.p.a. is worried it might not be as conclusive if we actually make it public that's interesting take i agree with you that there should be transparency i don't know that i can't verify that those are the facts i was unfamiliar with but there's doing you know anything about this and you know i'm not super familiar with this thing with the study but it's very interesting especially and i can truly see this in especially in a lot of industrialized countries in southeast asia and china and countries where they have these huge industry you know where there's a lack of industrial regulation with these huge industrial plants that are emanating these gases and poisons and things like that out into the hemisphere that is causing adverse effect to the population that you know just said hey you know. catalytic converters on cars and i remember you used to fly into l.a. and it was like. you know you can actually see the city when you fly it was just a simple thing and i wasn't that a good thing i mean

. >> employees at the e.p.a., the environmental protection agency which regulates the quality of our air and water, they could lose 94% of its work force. >> stephen: no e.p.a.? okay, well, time to dump some old house paint down the storm drain! (laughter) there we go. there we go. (laughter) this will take a second. sorry. there you go. (cheers and applause) sorry. sorry, dolphins. you had a good run. (laughter) you know what? water used to be blue until i dumped this (bleep) in there. there you go. now, folks, the federal government may be shuttered, but the colbert nation is alive and well. (cheers and applause) and i am proud and prepared to fill the power vacuum as you are lord of the afterscape! (cheers and applause) ur-lord lord of the afterscape. bow before me! bring me tributes of sheep and unsoiled daughters! i also accept visa! (laughter) i will seize all government functions. who needs the f.d.a.? just send me your drugs. i'll test them for you. (laughter) for instance, these right here belong to -- these belong to brenda, my stage manager. (laughter) (cheers and applause)

it could be one of the e.p.a.'c power grabs ever, enforcing a federal regulation to gain control of nearly all the water in america. is this government bureaucracy out of control? let's talk to fox news contributor jeanine. good morning to you. how are you? >> fine. how are you? >> fine. i'm a little disturbed when people learn of this. clean water act, sounds great. we want to turn on the tap and have clean water coming out. now the e.p.a. is grabbing a part of our water we didn't know they had their mitts in. >> this is what government does. government overreach. it is a power grab. but what the e.p.a. is doing is they're being the judge, jury and executioner because they're writing the laws for the clean water act. and the clean water act is so broad, vague and confusing that the e.p.a. is stepping in to try to impose regulations on bodies of waters like wetlands that don't connect to bigger bodies of water or streams that don't run all year round. it is a power grab. >> as we look at some lakes and we look at s

and the day i read about it, i called up the e.p.a., they said they would be on it in five minutes, and then the government shut down. but they don't care over there. even though 75% of the people strongly support the e.p.a., they want to get rid of it. well, bring it on. but don't hold this country hostage. there's 110 f.a.a. safety inspectors in southern california who are furloughed. 830 bureau of land management employees who were sent home. small businesses not getting paid. do you know we don't even know what our unemployment rate is, mr. president, in the greatest country in the world because the labor department had to send home the people who calculate that number? in santa monica, a plane crashed on sunday evening and four people were killed. the ntsb cannot investigate -- that's the national transportation safety board -- they can't investigate it. the advisories are off the job. they took what they learned, they put it in a vault, and when the government opens, they'll take it out. in the meantime, who knows why it happened? maybe it's a defect in the plane that we could fix

in particular, the e.p.a. has scored landmark victories on cases relating to greenhouse gas regulations, ethanol-blended gasoline, and mountaintop removal coal mining. but beyond energy and environmental issues, the d.c. circuit court has upheld president obama's executive order regarding embryonic stem cell research on two separate occasions, in 2011 and 2012. again, these aren't my preferred outcomes, but i think it demonstrates that the d.c. circuit court has learned to strike a balance and certainly is not pro-administration or anti-administration. it epitomizes what a court should be, which is an impartial administrator of justice. again, this same court upheld the affordable care act in 2011, ruling that the individual health insurance mandate was constitutional under the commerce clause. we know what happened when it got to the united states supreme court. they had a different view. but it demonstrates the kind of judicial restraint that the current d.c. court, balanced as it is, with four nominees by a

physically walked over and got an exemption from the e.p.a. you know clean air and clean water regulations for the fracking industry for the for this technique that halliburton had invented is there something fundamentally wrong with that you know i the evidence again is just so inconclusive the head of the e.p.a. lisa jackson says there's never been a study that shows that fracking causes water pollution the same thing from the department of energy same thing from president obama's science adviser they're all saying that there are no conclusive studies on this issue yet it's hard to say that we're back to cigarettes in the one nine hundred eighty you know we're still waiting for these studies to come out because these are these are still relatively new studies or josh fox to go around with the camera over a shoulder walk into people's houses in neighborhoods that are getting fracking and light their their faucets on what actually happens even in neighborhoods where there is no fracking that's something that's common in a lot of these areas whe

our commitment has never been stronger. >> welcome back, well it may be the e.p.a.'st power grab every. enforcing a regulation to gain nearly all control of this water in this country, is the government bureaucracy out of control? let's ask fox news contributor deneen borelli. let's be specific what the e.p.a. is doing here. basically changing the regulatory definition. it had been, not to get too dirty here navigatable waters use it with a boat. connected waters that could k. mean a small stream, a ditch in your backyard, those which may be on private property now the e.p.a. wants to regulate. >> listen, everyone wants clean water, but this is truly a power grab and the e.p.a. is writing their own rules like you said to determine what small bodies of water are. so a wet land, which doesn't even connect to a larger body of water, or a stream that doesn't even run all year around, so the e.p.a. is getting involved with their regulatory authority on this and really it's an infringement on property rights because, if you had these small pieces of water on your land what

protectist attorney abbott says the e.p.a.ng too fast on this legislation and without congressional input. >> this is part and parcel to what president barack obama has said and that is he's going to use the e.p.a. in ways congress has not gone along with him on. >> the new regulations expected to be issued in a few months. >>> a study claims one of the most common bacterias in the world might be a trigger for multiple sclerosis. it is commonly found in the soil and has dangerous forms which can destroy your neurological system. the study was small but the team started to research treatments to destroy and to block this bacteria. >>> scientists say they may have found a cure for baldness in a study published in the journal pams, scientists said they have discovered how to grow hair in a lab. they took cells in human donors, cloned them and grafted them into human skin grafted on to the backs of mice. this could lead to hair transplants. >>> kim kardashian got a birthday surprise of a lifetime. she is engaged to kanye west. the

. >> reporter: she works for the e.p.a., a mother and grandmother. her husband is recently laid off. >> congress needs to be turned over somebody's knee and spanked hard because they are acting like small children. >> there won't be any business here. >> reporter: the shutdown's most visible effects, padlocking our national parks from coast to coast along with the national zoo and museums in the nation's capitol. the shutdown will also put federally backed loans on hold, delay tax audits and refunds and suspend the nutrition program for women, infants and children. >> how are we going to feed our kids? >> reporter: services which won't be effected include essentials such as mail delivery, tsa, air traffic control. while more than 800,000 federal workers stand to lose a paycheck the president and members of congress will still receive them. >> i think they can take their paychecks away. >> if you feel government employees shouldn't be paid you should give up your check. >> reporter: she will need to report to work to find out if she will be sent home.

at the e.p.a. where the e.p.a. might be making referrals to the department of justice or working with the department of energy. people of -- our government, we have a lot of interactions among agencies. that's actually a good thing. it saves taxpayers money. i think we have to restart all of government for all americans. not part of government for some americans. all government for all americans. host: harris from mansville, ohio, and he's a federal worker. caller: my big question is that the house of representatives, why do their senator -- the bill was passed. the shame of this government. host: thank you. guest: i think that issue is going to be resolved again. that's a perfect example you think you're fixing kind of one thing, paying our military. we moved that through the house and senate an on to the president. it turns out this is one area that's not covered by that law but it's part of the function of the department of defense. we realize that we missed that. we have to go back and fix that. that's why it's

department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug and ministry. what. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither fact not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in the trial the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared.

department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples a month along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and drug administration. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of of concern for human hailed the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that back around is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity at twenty so when all the tests come back it says nine detect nine in fact not attacked they needed that kind of fifteen. and then they knew it. was the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the. oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast or not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than ever why the you'r

department pulls hundreds of samples we pull hundreds of samples along with our federal partners the e.p.a. no one and the food and. drug administration one. this is louisiana. you'll notice. here for this entire area here this green area we're testing for the hydrocarbons in the water and the dispersants literally at this point thousands of tests have been run. one shrimp sample not a single one has reached a level of heat of concern for human hail the fraud they hire laboratories who set artificially high detection levels that say that background is five parts per billion of a chemical they set the sensitivity to twenty so when all the tests come back it says detect neither pack not in fact they needed that kind of fifteen. if they knew it. stalled in. the wall of the gulf of mexico is the toilet of the oceans for the whole country safety requirements that are all political in florida you know on the east coast are not the political inside the gulf of mexico we're the most deregulated portion of the entire country when it comes to offshore drilling. they say we're more prepared. than eve

the ground. then if you care about farming -- and i know most of us do -- e.p.a. is responsible for the inventory of pesticides that are imported from abroad. this means that millions of dollars of imported agricultural chemicals have been stuck at u.s. ports because e.p.a. personnel are not on hand to approve them for entry. this could be devastating for our agricultural economy and further raise food prices for consumers. somebody explain to me how a government shutdown helps the farmers who are waiting for these pesticides to be cleared by the e.p.a.. somebody explain it to me. somebody explain it to me how it helps to have a government shutdown when we have many, many road projects that are just getting ready to go forward, but we don't have any of the agencies ready to complete the studies to make sure they are safe enough to go forward. there are hundreds of thousands of jobs at stake, and most of it, when it comes to the highway bill, in the private sector. and here's one we just learned yesterday. i say to my colleagues, 92% of workers at the nuclear regula