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overthrow vladimir putin. and were learning more about where yevgeny prigozhin might be at this hour. also ahead, ukraine tries to make the most of russias crisis on the battlefield after a slow, bloody start to their counter offensive. plus, president bidens first public comments on everything thats unfolding in russia, and on capitol hill, lawmakers voicing their concerns but will that translate to more dollars and supplies for ukraine? our nbc news reporters are following all of t...

NJDEP-News Release - Commissioner of Environmental Protection Shawn M. LaTourette today testified before a joint meeting of the Senate Environment and Energy Committee and the Assembly Environment and Solid Waste Committee about the importance of addressing climate change and coastal resilience in New Jersey.

Attention. you know, i asked our producers to make me a full screen graphic so we could show the viewers some of the roll backs that president trump has done since hes taken office and they came back and told me that they couldnt make it because there are 83 of them. they said no graphic could ever support those 83. so weve narrowed it down to just three. here are three at random that we will put up on the screen that the trump administration has canceled a requirement for oil and gas companies ...

Be for folly beach? >> well, it all depends which track it follows. if it follows inland and goes behind us, well get some storm water flooding, but not as bad as if it bumps the coast and decides to head south. then our storm surge is going to go up. and as we have experienced before, once the hurricane comes, we not only get flooding from the ocean, but because our island is not all that wide, we also get flooding from the river on the back side, the sound on the back side. so thats a big conc...

And the week-long look at just how government has changed in the year since president trumps election. you know what it says, right? youre going back to work. >> this is a very different kind of environmental protection, the president making good on his promise to roll back dozens of environmental regulations, including rules that kept coal waste out of water waste and required stronger flood standards for infrastructure. he tried to downsize the agency. >> we are going to get rid of it in alm...

And certainly more fallout as the day continues. a year after winning the presidential election, critics are blasting president trump for having no major legislative accomplishments, but hes made good on one campaign promise. rolling back dozens of environmental regulations. cheer environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson has more. >> reporter: scott pruetts first trip as head of the epa was to a coal mine. as the agency cole miners flagging president trump as he started undoing the cl...

Resulted in cleaner air, purer water, better protected land. its website lists a list of accomplishments including regulating auto emissions, banning the use of ddt, cleaning up toxic waste and increasing recycling. what has changed in the past year? correspondent anne thompson explains. >> reporter: scott pruitts first trip at head of the epa was to a coal mine. they flanked president trump as he started undoing the clean power plan. >> you know what it says, right? youre going back to work. >>...

Suggests that floods are becoming more frequent, more intense and more widespread. coastal flooding of the kind we saw in flooding and texas as well as less damaging nuisance events have shot up by as much as 900% since the 1960s. between 1980 and 2013, u.s. floods caused more than $260 billion in damage, more than any other kind of natural disaster. stricter flood standards come with additional construction costs. 1.25% more according to the obama administration. and building trade groups say t...