Thursday, March 30, 2017

The Daily

The New York Times

Daily News, News

4.3 • 107.6K Ratings

🗓️ 30 March 2017

⏱️ 22 minutes

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Summary

The climate change battle through one coal miner's eyes. And why Scott Pruitt, President Trump's E.P.A. chief, confounds both sides. Guests: Coral Davenport, who covers energy and the environment for The New York Times; Mark Gray, who spent 38 years working in the coal mines of Kentucky. For more information on today’s episode, visit http://nyti.ms/2nPhB1g.

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0:00.0	From the New York Times, I'm Michael Barbaro. This is The Daily.
0:09.0	Today, to Republicans, he's a hero. To Democrats, he's one of the biggest threats of the Trump administration.
0:16.0	But Trump's top environmental official, Scott Pruitt, is turning out to be something else.
0:22.0	And how the federal battle over climate change feels to one coal miner from Kentucky.
0:28.0	It's Thursday, March 30th.
0:34.0	Hey, Quiril.
0:35.0	Hey, Michael.
0:36.0	Thank you for coming on.
0:37.0	Always good to be here.
0:39.0	Quiril Davenport is back for the second day in a row. She covers energy and the environment for the times.
0:44.0	So in this really polarized political climate that we live in right now,
0:49.0	what does it look like when Donald Trump appoints Scott Pruitt as the head of the Environmental Protection Agency?
0:55.0	Not just liberals, but people who follow this issue,
0:58.0	saw Scott Pruitt as a stunning choice.
1:01.0	If fossil fuels go away, if we don't go after two thirds of our fossil fuel that is in the ground,
1:08.0	I ask you a question.
1:10.0	What's going to happen to the cost of electricity?
1:13.0	What's going to happen to manufacturing our businesses?
1:16.0	You've never before had a head of the Environmental Protection Agency who has built his career on trying to tear it down.
1:24.0	You start asking the question, this body called the EPA, this agency called the EPA.
1:29.0	What is their role? What is their objective?
1:31.0	Scott Pruitt spent the last two years suing the EPA 14 times.
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