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So much salt water has risen up from the gulf of mexico, that these trees are simply crumbling into the mair sh. spots like this around here are often called a ghost forest. after all this, youd think charlie hammonds and others would be on the climate change bandwagon. >> theres a lot of people that believe sea rising is contributing to what youre seeing. >> yeah. >> reporter: you dont buy that? >> i dont buy that. >> reporter: hammond and others say other impacts are in play. they say marshlan...

Slavery, to make them join the united states, to give blacks a vote, to also have voting right. so that was the republican party that i could identify. the same with roosevelt who put more land aside for conservat n conservation, who was a great environmentalist, inspired by john muir. nixon, who was trying to do health care reform, universal health care in 1974. he derailed that because he couldnt handle health care reform. reagan created the resources board as a republican to clean the environ...

Slaves. the republican party voted -- the democrats were nowhere to be find. but the republicans voted overwhelmingly to get rid of slavery, to make them join the united states, to give blacks a vote, to also have voting right. so that was the republican party that i could identify. the same with roosevelt who put more land aside for conservation, who was a great environmentalist, inspired by john muir. a californian. nixon, who was trying to do health care reform, universal health care in 1974....

As the u.s. seems to be reversi reversing, china is changing its approach. even the hard line state and urging americans to stop its climate policies. >> for years the chinese government misled the public on pollution and impressed the environmentalist factories. now theyre working together to create this app showing real time pollution data, pressuring violators to clean up their act. >> now, finally, theres a real political well to try to control them. >> times have definitely changed. as the ...

Reviewing the greenhouse. scrapping regulations that make it tougher to mine coal on federal lands and no longer forcing the government to consider the cost of climate change when making policy decisions. at this barbershop in west virginia they cheered the move hoping it will bring back jobs. >> i expect for him to bring it back. i expect for him to lift the regulations and probably help us as much as he can. >> reporter: the president touting it as a campaign promise kept. >> were going to put...

Very, very bullish on this. >> but some top executives say things may not rise because of more automation and cnn money was told he suggestled that he temp earl his expectations. environmentalist see little benefit and a lot of harm. >> the coal industry has been losing jobs for year after year after year. coal jobs will not be coming back in any kind of large quantity whatsoever. >> and yet another sign of the difference between the obama and trump administrations on these ishls. donald trump d...

Intelligence committee and the fact its bleeding over into the senate investigation. chairman burke cannot be happy about that. they are trying to keep it on the straight and narrow as far as what they are doing. >> panel, thank you. on that note, stick around. we have many more questions for you. >> all of this is creating a frustration in the white house to get their agenda under way. youve got president trump trying to get back to business. hes going to sign an executive order today. the ques...

Safer when he we have regulations in place to guide that development and make sure that production thats happening on federal lands is done so in a sustainable way and the core support to transition to renewable power which is home grown, we want to be energy independent, but we want to do that at the same time were protecting the public health. >> when someone says were going to save jobs, coal is going to be part of clean power -- the clean power act through 2040 anyway. lets make it controlla...

Impacts them. they have a right to have a sat at the table. they do not have a right to write the regulations. hes got to be very sure that he will listen to them but he will also listen to the environmentalist and more importantly, hell issue to the advice of the agency. >> former governor christine todd-whitman. thank you for being with us. >> coming up, what is next? were talking to an attorney who has been down a similar road before the highest court in the land. we are keeping an eye on the...

Release those if we are going to see them. talk to me about what kind of epa scott pruitt is walking into today? >> i can tell you that hes walking into not very friendly territory. he is the new epa administrator, scott pruitt, who will be speaking to employees around noon today. as we saw over the last several weeks, we have seen the epa employees rallying against him. last week the labor union that represents the agencys employees urged members to call senators to vote against pruitt, and you...