The Courts, the Law and Obama's Climate Agenda
To the Point
KCRW
4.4 • 583 Ratings
🗓️ 1 July 2015
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
As the world prepares for the next climate change summit in Paris at the end of this year, conflicting court rulings demonstrate conflicting approaches toward the environment and global warming.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica and PRI, Public Radio International, this is To the Point. |
| 0:07.9 | A lack of global consensus in the fight against global warming. |
| 0:15.4 | Hello again, I'm Warren Alney, and this is To the Point from Public Radio International. |
| 0:19.4 | A daily look at the issues Americans care about most. |
| 0:21.9 | The U.S. Supreme Court has overturned rules that cut emissions from coal and oil-fired power plants because the EPA failed to consider the cost. |
| 0:30.5 | That could mean trouble for the president's clean air agenda. |
| 0:33.6 | Meantime, a Dutch court says its government must increase cuts in emissions regardless of cost |
| 0:38.9 | in the interest of health and safety. Conflicting court rulings, dramatize conflicting |
| 0:44.5 | approaches to the environment and climate change. Today's talking point will other states follow |
| 0:50.3 | California when it comes to a sweeping ban on exemptions to mandatory childhood vaccination. |
| 0:57.7 | First, here's the news. |
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| 1:27.9 | Hello again, Mormon, I'll need back with To the Point. As the world prepares for the next |
| 1:31.3 | climate change summit in Paris at the end of this year, conflicting court rulings |
| 1:35.4 | demonstrate conflicting approaches toward the environment and global warming. |
| 1:39.3 | We'll heard about that. Today's talking point, California has joined Mississippi and |
| 1:43.1 | West Virginia as the only states that ban objections to mandatory childhood vaccinations based on religion as well as personal beliefs. |
| 1:52.0 | Is it a test case for the rest of the nation? |
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