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Think is the solution? we all care about the planet. we want a healthy place for all of our children. what is the best way to address that concern? >> well, honestly, i believe that we should look at trying to maintain the sources that we have right now and trying to self-regulate. not let the rest of the world tell us what we need to do. if you look at california emission on cars, thats something thats handled in california. thats something they saw as a problem that they needed to regulate. wh...

A so-called clean-burning coal facility outside of beijing. instead of pumping out high levels of pollution, the plants technology allows it to keep emissions low by retrofitting power units ander it bynes and recycling wastewater. conditions monitoring realtime in this control room. >> translator: people used to look at coal and saw something dirty and polluting. we have resolved the problem through the technologies you see here want currently no other forms of clean energy, be it wind, solar, ...

Obama era regulations on climate policies and as you heard restoring american jobs. brian: here to react because its his job, too, he ryan zinke, a. how significant was gha announcement? >> it was great. i think on the coal, three points. one, it is better to produce energy here under reasonable regulation than watch it get produced overseas with no regulation. as a former seal, i can tell you i have seen a lot of countries and i have seen what happens in the middle east and africa when there is...

Theres $90 billion for clean energy at a time when we were spending maybe a couple billion dollars a year. theres record funding, not just for renewables, which have doubled on the presidents watch, but for energy efficiency, for the smart grid, for cleaner coal, for the factories to build all that stuff in the united states, for advanced biofuels. this is really kind of a revolutionary approach to government and nobody really noticed it because the economy was bad. >> you know what he called th...