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He even arranged for street to get a job working with him as an assistant electrician. >> i started as an electrician trainee about three weeks ago, and i just basically screw things into the wall right now, carry stuff, hold the ladder steady, clean up the messes. >> whats the red wire? >> i dont know what the white wire is. thats the common wire. >> the white wire is common wire. >> red wire is hot. >> red is hot. >> black is hot. >> black is hot. whats your green wire? >> its hot, too. >> gre...

Issue take front and center. i mean, its been sort of there. its been in the background. it was a priority. it was talked about in 2008 election. you had waxman/markey pass in the house. it probably cost a few democrats their seats or helped cost them their seats. but something where you had an actual just full-out partisan brawl of this issue, i personally think would be good in clarifying for the issue in terms of raising it in the publics consciousness. >> yes, and i think it will really allo...

Candidate alison lundergan grimes, it has been muted which could do with the fact that 70% of americans said in a poll this month the government should limit greenhouse gases. nonetheless, republicans are now plotting about how to stop the apas push to regulate carbon. which was endorsed as legitimate by the supreme court in april. two house republicans told "bloomberg" they may move to block the rule by denying epa funding in a spending bill, a move that could potentially lead to a government s...

You know, has he to live with something like that. >> donnegan sees potential in street. he arranged for street to get a job working with him as an assistant electrician. >> i just started about two weeks ago as an electrician trainee. i just basically screw things into the wall right now, and hold the ladder steady and clean up the messes. >> whats the red wire? >> i dont know what the white wire is. >> thats common. >> white wire is common wire. >> red wire is hot. >> red is hot. >> black is h...

Commission which now must approve a new route. a result that may well give president obama no choice but to delay the politically explosive decision over whether to give the pipeline final approval. joining me, elana shore for "green wire." and nikki silvestri. elana, you have been going great reporting out of nebraska on precisely this fight. were you surprised by this federal judges ruling yesterday? >> honestly, chris, i wasnt. the landowners had a pretty strong case here. you know, heineman ...

That power now belongs to nebraskas public service commission which now must approve a new route. a result that may well give president obama no choice but to delay the politically explosive decision over whether to give the pipeline final approval. joining me, elana shore for "green wire." and nikki silvestri. elana, you have been going great reporting out of nebraska on precisely this fight. were you surprised by this federal judges ruling yesterday? >> honestly, chris, i wasnt. the landowners...

>> where something starts, when were talking about a federal investigation, is not necessarily where it ends up, and where something starts in a federal investigation, in which the power of the law looms over all people. do you want to go to jail or do you want to talk? do you want to go to jail or do you want to wear a wire? when that is brought to bear, lord knows what gets discovered? >> and i dont think hes thinking about the right things right now. at some point in a case like this, your po...

Virginia, people still arent sure if they should drink the water. asked today if the tap water was safe to drink, governor tom told reporter, im not making this up. its your decision. joining me, a reporter from green wire. ala alana, the context for cliff forrest and coal is this incredible kind of upsurge of political activism we saw from the coal industry and coal companies and coal owners around the 2012 election which became for them a kind of waterloo battle. right? this idea coal was goin...

Facilities like this, to tackle west virginia, because they say theyll be more support for that for exactly the reasons you just talked about. >> everything you need to know about the state of environmental regulation in this country. short from green wire. thanks for reporting on this. >> thank you. coming up, the martin luther king jr. they wont be telling you about. ♪ stacys mom has got it goin on ♪ ♪ stacys mom has got it goin on ♪ ♪ stacys mom has got it goin on ♪ [ male annou...

Told reporters, and i am not making this up, its your decision. joining me now, alana shore, reporter at green wire. alana, the context for cliff forrest and coal is this incredible kind of upsurge of political activism that we saw from the coal industry and coal companies and coal owners around the 2012 election, which became for them, a kind of waterloo battle, right? this idea that coal was going to be killed if barack obama was re-elected. >> absolutely, chris. and you know, this started, in...