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Democracy Now! 2025-08-01 Friday

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Democracy Now!

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4.81.1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Headlines for August 01, 2025; “A Danger to the Entire Planet”: Amid Deadly Extreme Weather, Trump’s EPA Rejects Climate Science; “Toxic Air”: Meet the Mother-Daughter Duo Fighting Pollution in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley”; “Unprecedented Power Grab”: Trump & Texas Try to Create 5 More GOP House Seats with New Gerrymander

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0:00.0

From New York, this is Democracy Now.

0:16.0

It's a crime against nature.

0:19.0

It's a crime against the families of our country. It's a crime against nature. It's a crime against the families of our country.

0:22.8

It's a crime against the planet, the very planet that we all live on, God's creation.

0:29.5

That is what is happening today.

0:31.5

Climate scientists, activists, democratic lawmakers are denouncing the Environmental Protection Agency after EPA

0:40.2

chief Lee Zeldin moves to rescind a landmark EPA finding that greenhouse gas emissions

0:47.3

threaten public health. We'll speak to the NRDC, the Natural Resources Defense Council,

0:53.4

and climate scientist Michael Mann.

0:56.1

Then a group of activists from Louisiana have traveled to New York to confront the financial

1:01.4

backers of destructive natural gas projects in what's known as Cancer Alley.

1:08.1

We came to the door of the murderers, and the murderers ran from us.

1:13.4

I actually find that funny.

1:14.9

Yes, you know.

1:15.7

Yeah.

1:16.0

Like, we don't have weapons.

1:18.7

They have the weapons of mass destruction.

1:21.8

These weapons go by the names of LNG.

1:25.4

We'll speak to the Vessel Projects, Rochetta Ozan, and her 12-year-old daughter, Camilla,

1:32.3

who suffers from asthma, like so many, in Cancer Alley.

1:37.3

Then to Texas, where Republican state lawmakers are moving to redraw the state's congressional districts at President Trump's urging

1:46.4

with the goal of picking up five more Republican seats.

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