EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan - Clean Energy and Protecting Communities
The Daily Show: Ears Edition
Comedy Central
4.2 • 14.2K Ratings
🗓️ 7 April 2022
⏱️ 7 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to Comedy Central. |
| 0:02.6 | BAM! |
| 0:04.1 | Administrator Regan. |
| 0:06.1 | Welcome to the Daily Show. |
| 0:07.1 | Thank you. |
| 0:08.1 | Glad to be here. |
| 0:09.1 | I'm glad to have you here. |
| 0:10.1 | You know, because, I mean, this is the environment. |
| 0:12.2 | We're all in the environment, and you are now tasked with, I mean, essentially making sure |
| 0:17.3 | that we can breathe. |
| 0:18.8 | We can drink water and we can live. |
| 0:20.9 | I feel like your life sort of set you up for this, because if my research is correct, |
| 0:25.5 | you grew up with the type of asthma? |
| 0:28.3 | Yeah, a type of a respiratory illness where anytime there was an ozone action day or |
| 0:34.4 | a lot of pollution, I'd struggle. |
| 0:36.6 | Wow. |
| 0:37.6 | That was really a setback for me because I grew up hunting and fishing with my father |
| 0:43.3 | and grandfather. |
| 0:44.3 | So being outdoors meant everything to me, because it was a cultural experience learning |
| 0:48.9 | from them and being with them. |
| 0:51.0 | And any moment that I missed being with them, I was in the house because I was on that |
| 0:57.1 | inhaler or worried about some pollution. |
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