FIGHTING FOR THE EARTH
The Hartmann Report
Thom Hartmann
4.5 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 March 2023
⏱️ 59 minutes
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Summary
Have the recent spate of toxic train spills been the result of lax regulations championed by Trump?
Also - can planting trees make a real impact on the climate crisis?
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| 0:42.6 | This is the Tom Hartman program. |
| 0:47.5 | Welcome to the program. We've got a lot to talk about today. |
| 0:50.4 | On the line with us is Julio Rivera, the editorial director of reactionary times, |
| 0:55.3 | contributor to Newsmax, American thinker, and townhall.com, reactionary times.com. |
| 1:00.8 | Oh, yeah, it's Julio is his Twitter handle. |
| 1:03.5 | Oh, yeah, it's Julio. Hey, Julio, welcome back to the program. |
| 1:07.0 | Thank you so much for having me. |
| 1:08.5 | My pleasure. So, congressional Republicans and the Trump administration, this is a quote from |
| 1:16.0 | the White House, the Biden White House. Oh, East Palestine and apology for selling them out |
| 1:22.0 | to rail industry lobbyists when they dismantled the Obama, Biden, rail safety protections as well |
| 1:27.6 | as the EPA's ability to rapidly contain spills. This is, you know, Andrew Bates, the spokesman for |
| 1:32.8 | the White House. The Trump administration withdrew a 2015 proposal. Well, you know, the bottom |
| 1:38.4 | line is that when Obama was president, he had issued rules that could have prevented this, |
| 1:44.1 | certainly would have minimized it. And Trump, after the Republican Party took six million dollars |
| 1:49.8 | from these railroads, Trump signed an executive order reversing it. After a 10-minute conversation, |
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