EPA Then and Now

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🗓️ 2 February 2018

⏱️ 53 minutes

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It was in 1970, under President Nixon, that the Environmental Protection Agency was founded. While the Agency enjoyed tremendous bipartisan support for decades, the last 9 years have seen a decline in support from congressional Republicans. Recently, former EPA Administrator, Gina McCarthy, explained that she is not worried about protections being rolled back—she thinks they will withstand the assault—but rather about the budget cuts Lynda Deschambault, former EPA Staff Scientist Benjamin Franta, PhD candidate in History of Science, Stanford University Gina McCarthy, former EPA Administrator Portions of this program were recorded at the Commonwealth Club of California in San Francisco. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:36.6	Oil companies have known about the dangers of burning fossil fuels for longer than you may think.
0:41.3	I found this transcript, Edward Teller, telling the heads of the oil industry in 1959 that CO2 emissions could submerge New York City.
0:50.3	Since 1970, the EPA has been protecting our health and safety by enforcing regulations
0:56.2	on the industry.
0:57.7	But under the Trump administration, things have changed.
1:00.8	Suddenly we had the people we were regulating, were now the regulators.
1:06.5	And the agency no longer seems committed to its founding mission.
1:09.4	They don't have a right to misinterpret the law. They don't have a right to misinterpret the law.
1:12.2	They don't have a right to take science facts off the web page as if issues like climate
1:17.6	change didn't exist.
1:24.1	The EPA then and now.
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