and she understands all the loopholes within the e.p.a. to advise her organization of how to get through safety issues another example is terri medley here's a person who is an administrator at the u.s.d.a. and at the f.d.a. and now serves of the director of regulatory and external affairs of dupont corporation's agricultural enterprise you can also look at someone like clinton uter who is also at the u.s.d.a. and was a u.s. trade representative and he's on the board of my kitchen which is a wholly owned subsidiary of dow chemical but perhaps one of the most egregious ones is michael taylor who was a point. by the obama administration prior to joining as deputy director of foods at the f.d.a. he was actually the head of science policy for months anto and the list goes on you have many of these people who have one foot into the biotech pharma and the other foot in the government regulatory bodies i mean this kind of collusion is reprehensible and it's amazing that the legal infrastructure even allows. the e.p.a. one cor pyra fonts reversing

here was someone who was with the e.p.a. and then she went to join and become the head of government affairs at monsanto and now she's a vice president of safety health and environment and chief sustainability officer dupont so her interests are not only to ensure the advancement of dupont but she also used to be at the e.p.a. and she understands all the loopholes within the e.p.a. to advise her organization of how to get through safety issues another example is terry medley here's a person who is an administrator at the u.s.d.a. and at the f.d.a. and now serves of the director of regulatory and external affairs of japan corporations agricultural enterprise you can also look at someone like clinton uter who is also at the u.s.d.a. and was a u.s. trade representative and he's on the board of my kitchen which is a wholly owned subsidiary of dow chemical but perhaps for the most egregious ones is michael taylor who was appointed by the obama administration prior to joining as deputy director of foods at the f.d.a. he was actuall

the e.p.a. ow says those filters may not be effective enough. that warning came after a handfteul of samples showed lead levels are well above the e.p.a.'s standard of 15 parts per billion. the e should be distributed to many residents. the matter now being fought in court, which lisa desjardins will discuss in a moment. but first, our collgues at njtv have covered the reaction in newark. here's brenda flanagan. >> reporter: ebony williams says she installed a pur filter cartridge from the city of newark on her kitchen faucet just a couple weeks ago. it's already blinking redand she wasn't able to get free bottled wate handed out by the city. the mom of two is deeply concerned about lead in her water after tests showed these filters failed in two other houses. officials are now planning a much broader survey of homes kith filtered water. have you had th tested for lead? >> i'm taking them today to williams street - instead of getting in line for the water, i'm gonna get in line for the lead test.

billion in one home, and 246 parts per billion at a home in newark, that's 16 times higher than the e.p.a actionabl level. now, the expert morr e ety says, wait a minute, those levels are high because corrosion control had been an issue. those issues are being resolved. we're seeing lead levels come down becausean of better more stable treatment of water there. so what's the recommendation for homeowners cght up in the middle of this? the experts for the city says, well, just flh you water 15 to 30 seconds at the tap, and the experts for the environment said that's woefully too low.ge he ss five minutes, and he says that really depends on the forceful flow of the water. if it's a slow force, five minutes may not be enough. if it's fast force, two minutes may do the job. now, the judge did have some very pointed questions. as a mattfact, some points today, she took over questioning from both of the attorneys, becase she wanted answers about the effectiveness of the somesion control and then simple things, lisa, such as is the water safe for bathing? is it safe for washing clothes? is it sa

use by the federal government because of evidence that they are harmful to human health in 2000 the e.p.a. bancorp boss in many household products like insecticides after research showed it cause nausea in dizziness especially in children who later studies found children exposed prenatal lead to the past decide how to increase odds of developmental and attention disorders or pyro thaws is however authorized for use for agricultural purposes and it's still used massively for that reason basically the federal government has granted syngenta and pioneer the right to test the sides here on this island outside of what the label mandates states including hawaii started to pass some of their own laws to regulate these open air field tests and as this kind of patchwork regulatory framework came into being they said oh we better go out to the feds and design something that works for us when you look at what's happening on the west side it's mainly made. and work in communities of color that are being most impacted and a lot of the lands that these chemical companies operate on are state lands whic

class 30 which our products are being categorized some experts doubt that suspending cambodia from the e.p.a. program would make much difference to the country's economy john so powerful one says the impact would have been much greater a few years ago. there will be some negative effect. slower growth of course. to be laid off but i think it will not be a disaster because the size of the condom and the vibrancy is large enough now. this is not the consensus view however. some argue that the threatened e.u. withdrawal of preferential status would be a painful blow to the country. at a gathering in phnom penh of european business people active in cambodia many said they feared that thousands of jobs could be lost if the threat became reality. as you pinch arresting him when you get the suspension on t.v. it was missing it would be counterproductive we don't sing it with you when you're on your. european business interests as well. the garment industry employs about $750000.00 people most of them young women they work on average 8 to 10 hours a day labor rights is another of the areas in which

million americans drink community water that contains lead and 5.5 million get water that exceeds the e.p.as maximum levels. >> we need to make investments on fixing our lead contamination problems. they have been with us for hcades. but they continue to haunt us, thd they are threatening children across the country. >> reporter: and you're erncerned about that? >> i'm extremely concerned for my students, yeah. water is a human right. fix it. >> o'donnell: don dahler joins us now. ty don, what is it going to take for the city to fix this problem? >> reporter: well, the mayor says all those lead service pipes have to be replaced at a cost he estimates at $70 million. it should be noted that group says other cities such as portland, oregon, pittsburgh, and providence that also have elevated levels of lead in their drinking water. norah. >> o'donnell: don dahler in newark, thank you. there is breaking news from overseas. the airport in hong kong, one of the world's busiest, has just copened. all flights were canceled when protesters demanding democratic reforms jammed the terminals. debora pat

the e.p.a. said you do not have to use corn ethanol. awback in the amount of the corn ethanol being used. they say that this breaks the law and that corn ethanol was to give corn ethanol access into the gasoline market. they said that that promise has been broken. they want the president to take a step back and reverse course. i want to let you hear from one farmer here. he gave us a sense of what this means and how it could effect president trump's support here in the midwest. >> all the cards dealt to us this year having to deal with the weather issues and the flooding that we've all had all over the country, the continuous amounts of rain and the trade wars that are going on with china, the u.s. agreement that's not approved yet. farmer's tensions are hard. they are running tight. there are a lot of people that are nervous. with the small refinery exemptions, it has really, really hurt us and what the president promised us that he would do. during his campaign he said he would defend the rff, and he has kind of. he hasn't left us high

the e.p.a. has oversight when they release a sight for general public use, they have a risk range for cancer, and it's 10 -4 to 10 -6. when we counted the wipe, it's a simple conversion where you count the units, and we ended up getting the same units that our detector counted out. if you were to take the e.p.a. conservative value of 1 in a million and convert it to d.p.m., for alpha contamination, for plutonium, it would have to be 40 d.p.m. for there to be contamination in the home. for strontium, you had to have 5,280 d.p.m. in the home before you hit the -6 conservative risk range. we did a total of 229 desk wipes. not one dust wipe approached the 40 or the 5,208 d.p.m. values. therefore, we determined that there was no health and safety risk to any of the homes or artist studios. we did mail out individual results in june to all residents and the artist community, and no one had any findings of health and safety risk. questions? >> we're going to ask the speakers first if they have any quest

and the e.p.a. to come up with a standard based on the health scientists available and other departments that deal with the e.p.a. >> at what year? >> 1998. and then the agencies that came up with those standards i've continued to review their own standards. >> good evening, welcome. >> so for reference, the standards set have been reviewed in 2013 as paul said, this past two months. in 2013, they released notice of rulemaking detailing and clarifying some of the methods that people have been determining as fcc compliance would have to determine. >> sorry to interrupt. that was 2013. we did not have 5g at that time and i don't believe we had 4g. given the standard has for the equipment has changed so drastically, in recent years, why isn't there something that is -- in 2013 my daughter was in third grade. it's not a new generation because it isn't based on generation. back in 1996, we were just around 2g area. the center is based on frequency. the actual part of the electro magnetic spectrum that the

class 30 which our products are being categorized some experts doubt that suspending cambodia from the e.p.a. programme would make much difference to the country's economy john so powerful one says the impact would have been much greater a few years ago. there will be some negative effect. slower growth of course and some work to be laid off but i think not be a disaster because the size of the economy and the vibrancy is large enough now. this is not the consensus view however. some argue that the threatened e.u. withdrawal of preferential status would be a painful blow to the country. at a gathering in phnom penh of european business people active in cambodia many said they fear that thousands of jobs could be lost if the threat became reality. as you pinch are present here we are against the suspension he was missing it would be counterproductive we don't sing it with you when you're on your keyboard if you know you can exist because you know. the garment industry employs about $750000.00 people most of them young women they work on average 8 to 10 hours a day labor rights is another of t

beef production is only accountable for 2% of greenhouse gas emissions, and that's according to the e.p.a reporter: shouldn't more be done to bring that 2% to 0%? >> it is something, but i think we have to remember we have to t. o> reporter: we also eat far less than we produce and cutting down on wasted food will reduce greenhouse gases due to excess ueod production. u.c. davis professor frank mitloehner: >> 40% of all food in this country goes to waste. and you know who the main culprit is? you and i. >> reporter: ironically, while the over-production of food contributes to climate change, according to the report, as the world gets warmer, there will be less food security because of usre deserts and less farmable land. that means improving our land management and farming techniques are essential to our well-being. norah. >> o'donnell: quite a warning. adriana diaz in kansas tonight. thank you. cbw a cbs news exclusive. margaret brennan spoke with the wife of a princeton university scholar imprisoned in iran since today. xiyue wang is one of at least five americans held in iran. efforts

state records show lead levels a $52.00 parts per 1000000000 in newark this is more than 3 times the e.p.a. threshold and greater than that in flint michigan haven't we learned new jersey is 50 percent african-american flint michigan is 57 percent african-american they both have contaminated water lead in your water does. you know basically cause brain development to be slower in children so all these african-american children are basically being poisoned with lead and setting back their progress in to the future. and also note that the business insider story their headline reads a water crisis outside new york city has surpassed flint according to a pediatrician who helped uncover the flint disaster that's how they refer to newark new jersey it's a city outside new york city this is a very new york way to refer to any city is not new york city and i really like the famous new yorker cover shows new york and then the rest of the country portrayed as a vanishing wasteland ending up you know where there's the emerald city new york city that's the oz everything else is worthless but actually

starting last may, we received a request from the city of san francisco, the e.p.a., in the navy and others. if we could come out and perform a health and safety survey of parcel a. the first sign that we have become aware of parcel a, we learned quickly they were two parcels. we first developed the plan for parcel a1, and i like to go through that with you. what do we want to talk about today? parcel a1, of course. during the data review of parcel a1, we found something that i will talk about later called a low-energy peak, and we did a resurvey on that. we did a just survey for the residents and the artist community and parcel a1. what was our objective? what was our goal? do to some concerns from the residence, given the newspaper articles on falsification of data, in addition to where former employees had claimed there were radioactive materials that they discovered on the hilltop, we agreed to do this survey because when the residents are concerned, that is part of our job to protect the citizens of california as well as the environment. we took on the task and we developed a pr

want to share with you the words of president richard nixon, who is credited with the creation of the e.p.a. here is what he had to say about our environment. president nixon: in the next 10 years, we shall increase our wealth by 50%. the profound question is, does this mean we will be 50% richer in a real sense, 50% better off, 50% happier, or does it mean that in the year 1980, the president, standing in this place, will look back on a decade in which 70% of our people lived in metropolitan areas choked by traffic, suffocated by smog, poisoned by water, deafened by noise and terrorized by crime? these are not the great questions that concern world leaders at summit conferences, but people do not live at the summit. they live in the foothills of everyday experience, and it is time for all of us to concern ourselves with the way real people live in real life. the great question of the 1970's is, shall we surrender to our surroundings or shall we make our peace with nature and begin to make reparations for the damage we have done to our air, to our land, and to our water? >> from a state of

clearly the e.p.a. wouldn't be selling pesticides we know harm a developing child's brain, and clearly the f.d.a. has been too close with big pharma in the fact that we have this opioid crisis. this is not dangerous to discuss. people say i'm crazy and dangerous. i think what's dangerous and a little bit crazy is we're not discussing it. ( cheers and applause ) >> trevor: let's discuss, then, one of the bigger issues that has really resonated with many people from the debates, and that is the issue in and around reparations. >> yes. >> trevor: when it came to reparations, you came with the numbers. you were here's what black people were owed, here's how much they're owed, here is how much black people should be paid by america. this is not a favor, this is repay ago debt. why have you been so adamant about this issue? because you have been in it from the beginning. this has been a core issues of yours. why is this. >> i have been talking about it since my book healing america came out in 1997. america w