The Tell-Tale Hearts

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The Center for Investigative Reporting and PRX

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4.7 • 8K Ratings

🗓️ 29 February 2020

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

Unborn babies' hearts are at risk as EPA caves to chemical companies’ 20-year effort to whitewash the science on the risks of an extremely dangerous and prevalent chemical, TCE.

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0:00.0	From the Center for Investigative Reporting in PRX, this is Reveal.
0:09.7	I'm Al Etz.
0:11.2	The Knight, the House of Representatives in Peach, President Trump,
0:14.5	he was at a campaign speech in Battle Creek, Michigan, talking about...
0:18.4	Sinks, showers, and toilets.
0:21.5	Yeah, toilets and light bulbs.
0:24.9	We're even bringing back the old light bulb you heard about that, right?
0:28.1	The old light bulb, which is better.
0:33.3	I say, why do I always look so orange?
0:37.2	You know why? Because of the new light that's terrible.
0:39.5	You look terrible.
0:41.0	So what do light bulbs and toilets have in common?
0:45.0	Well, they've both been regulated.
0:46.6	The president thinks they've been over-regulated.
0:49.4	In a period of two and a half years, we have eliminated more regulations
0:54.4	than any other president by far.
0:57.9	The New York Times counted and found that the president has rolled back nearly 100 regulations
1:03.2	that protect the environment and people's health.
1:05.5	It's a part of a pattern where the administration ignores what scientists tell them
1:09.5	and instead makes things easier for special interests like the oil industry.
1:13.8	The most recent example came within the last couple weeks.
1:17.2	The EPA published this enormous document, more than 700 pages long,
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