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Light bulb freedom of choice act. president back man will allow you to buy any light bulb you want in the united states of america. >> you just cant be trusted to make decisions for yourself, not about your health insurance, not about your gas mileage. not even about your light bulbs. >> light bulbs, refrigerators, toilets, you name it. you cant go around your house without being told what to buy. >> okay. so all that was seven or eight years ago. and then weve all moved on with our lives. weve ...

Energy-wasting crappy old light 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 ...

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 understand the farther that ...

That the trump administration is rolling back efficiency standards on light bulbs. standards that were first promulgated under the george w. bush administration. and light bulbs kind of sounds like no big deal, but the rule that the trump administration is rolling back today was both working and it was kind of a big deal. quote, the rule change announced today by the trump administration is expected to increase u.s. electricity use by 80 billion kilowatt hours over the course of a year, roughly ...

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...

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 ...

Supposed to use. thats why i introduced the light bulb freedom of choice act. president back man will allow you to buy any light bulb you want in the united states of america. >> you just cant be trusted to make decisions for yourself, not about your health insurance, not about your gas mileage. not even about your light bulbs. >> light bulbs, refrigerators, toilets, you name it. you cant go around your house without being told what to buy. >> okay. so all that was seven or eight years ago. and ...

Top priority to get this passed. and then individual efforts like governor inslee talks about so well. things like even using cold water for the clothes saves 5 times the a energy. and you dont shrink the clothes. the light bulbs. you name it. people when you have a president taking it on as a mission you have to do the big things and transfer and get out of fossil fuels and move to clean energy. but you also have to talk the talk to make this a submission so people do the little things. >> sena...

Of other things in a particular time frame. if we have more time, we can head in the same direction and achieve most of the same value. >> president trump announced plans today to roll back light bulbs. >> whats up with that? >> i think hes messing with cnn on that one. >> if we do have a say in what light bulb wes use, we need light bulb thats dont burn out. theyre made to intentionally burp out and rereplace them over and over again. do you think thats good for the earth? of course not. we sho...

Story at the right time in the right place. and out comes this amazing combination of cinematic virility and absolute fear. its like watching an animal. >> i think "raging bull" is a great title. and the film fulfills the promise. the reality of the boxing and the great slow motion, all of the black and white gore, the violence of the flush bulbs going off. when he designed the movie, marty purposefully -- he didnt put a clutch on the film. theres no clutch. >> hey, ray, you never went down, ray...