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This is your problem. they want to be able to stir up a lot of controversy around your light bulbs, around your straws, and around your cheese burgers. >> so director, what did you think of that? that really as we all worry about using our plastic straws and what kind of light bulbs were using that thats not where the emphasis should be? >> i think she was trying to point that there are areas where we really need to tackle systemically the challenge of climate change. and the issue she was bring...

Your light bulbs, around your straws, and around your cheese burgers when 70% of the pollution, of the carbon that were throwing into the air comes from three industries. >> reporter: bernie sanders response a bit more concise? >> would you reinstate those requirements -- >> duh! >> reporter: defending the price tag of his $16 trillion climate crisis plan, the vermont senator arguing its possible to also focus on other policies like medicare for all and free college. >> i have the radical idea t...

Environmentals often announce in factory farming. you get 1% of less of the green house gas from factory farming than you do from grass fed beef which is often promoted as better for the environment. it also requires 10% of the land. then i think theres other questions about why are we promoting a high carb diet when theres a growing amount of science that suggests, in fact, eating larger amounts of animal fats and pro-teens than doctors have recommended in the past is also important for prevent...

On our environment. >> melissa: dont eat plastic cows. theyre really bad for you. later in the evening senator elizabeth warren said the plastic straw and red meat debate is a distraction pushed by special interests. >> this is exactly what the fossil fuel industry hopes were talking about. they want to stir up a lot of controversy around your light bulbs and straws and your cheeseburgers. when 70% of the pollution, of the carbon were throwing into the air comes from three industries. >> melissa...

How little public support or even support from the industry. weve talked about the fact that theyre trying to block clean power plant rules that would block emissions. theyre trying to override to make cars pollute more. theyre trying to override the major oil industry companies in order to release more methane in the air. theyre trying to open up the biggest national forest to logging and mining, and now get this. theyre coming for the light bulbs. the trump administration is trying to weaken f...

Fossil fuel industry hopes were all talking about. thats what they want us to talk about. this is a problem, they want to be able to stir up a lot of controversy around your light bulbs, your straws, and your cheeseburgers. >> to me, safe drinking water is a fundamental, human right. people look up and say, oh, were replacing the pipes is expensive or another substance. are you kidding me? you know what is expensive? poisoning our kids. >> i think it was the bite from elizabeth warren that is go...

Administration, even though the industries themselves want to keep those rules. its just an amazing intent to role back the world and recreate it like it used to be in the 80s. i cant figure it out. >> so what are the stakes of that? what does that all add up to in terms of what it does to america at this very perilous moment in terms of global leadership. weve withdrawn from paris and the fact that weve got a window here where we need to dramatically reduce our carbon emissions. >> yeah. thats ...

Bulbs back because it will make the climate crisis worse. for more im joined by gina mccarthy who served as the head of the environmental protection agency under president obama, is now a professor at the harvard kennedy school. all right. i would like to just think that im missing something here. there is some reason, honestly. this one, of all of them, someone i described online as eco nihilism. it seems almost nihilistic to me. what possible rationale is there for walking away from the light ...

Addressing government overreach, but its estimated the rollback could increase electrical costs for households since the bulbs will be less efficient they will use more power. and the national resources defense council estimates eliminating inefficient bulbs nationwide would have saved electricity equivalent to 25 large power plants. enough to power all the homes in new jersey and pennsylvania combined. california attorney general vowed to take it to court calling it another dim-witted move that...

Dont know there is the political appointees. i dont know if it was across agencies or in the epa made a directive, right, that they should foreshorten the window of analysis to cut off at 2040 as opposed to going past that, is that right? >> thats right. it was actually a across the entire federal government who has been having scientists come together every year and create a national climate assessment. and they just said dont worry about 2040. thats too far away. its too uncertain. now i under...