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When you look at the totality of what theyre doing on this stuff, what is your assessment of how theyve been guiding this epa? >> its the way theyve been approaching every issue, which is if obama had anything to do with it, were going to undo it. its mindless because its not thoughtful. you can come in as a new administration and take a look at the regulations that were enacted by the previous one and side what fits with your program and what doesnt, and then the ones that you think are good, y...

Around with the science. in the end you, have to go to court and justify these regulations. this is an administration that has done quite badly in court. they have been saved a coupe of times by the right wing judges. but so often the efforts to roll back regulations have been defeated in a court. so part of this push and pull insures that if youre going to do a regulatory change, its done in way that is defensible. >> dan, in toto, how much of a threat is this? when you look at everything, the ...

Here, thats going to be the big sticking point. >> i think its on policy. stephanie, the public has spoken whether its australias public, frances public, washington state. the carbon tax isnt going to be the right way to do this. were going to have to as a policy come up with another way to find the money. >> another way to find the money, but also marshall across sectors and communities to move it forward. the wrong way to do it is. >> you know, part of the reason oil and gas liked the methane ...

Regulation. they said it required, you know, in some cases six-month inspections. in some cases, you know, when they found leaks, they were required -- you had a great interview there with the president of the western energy alliance, a group of independent gas and oil companies. the obama era epa methane rule was the definition of red tape, a recordkeeping nightmare that was technically impossible to execute in the field. i mean, is it technically impossible? i dont know if this is the kind of ...

Power plan, the methane rule, the coal ash rule. a lot of these things he will now have to implement. the changes in emissions standards for automobiles. so its going to be up to wheeler to see them through. what i expect to see, actually hell do them in a more strategic way and perhaps a more successful way because theres going to be less fireworks that are distractions. >> great to speak with you, eric, thanks for the reporting. richard painter, my thanks to you as well. out of time. the whi...

Incompetence, theres chaos. but, it has withdrawn from the paris climate agreement. scott pruitt, the energy -- >> epa. >> -- the epa administrator has said that he intends to roll back as many of the obama era regulations as he can. >> yeah. >> we dont quite know what the department of of energy is doing but apparently they are also making efforts. how significant is this roll-back that is taking place under the trump administration? does it worry you? >> yes, it does. some of it is being stopp...

Climate agreement, scott pruitt, the energy -- >> epa. >> epa administrator has said that he intends to roll back as many of the obama-era regulations as he can. we dont know quite what the department of energy is doing, but apparently they are also making efforts. how significant is this roll back that is taking place under the donald trump administration, does it work? >> yes, it does. some of it is being stopped by the congress, the so-called methane rule is being vetoed in the senate. but th...

Iran economically, we do that by supplanting their exports in crude. and we have to do that by our energy independence as well as infrastructure. >> lot of concerns about some obama-era regulations being rolled back that might be harmful to the environment. what do you say to those critics? >> were going to do it right. its better to produce energy here under reasonable regulation. as an example, the methane rule. everyone should realize my position on methane is that its a waste to vent methane...

Here. we had to do the vetting and do our job. that vote should be delayed is what should happen. >> senator, finally, congressional lawmakers are turning to the congressional review act to dismantle regulations that came in late in president obamas final term. is this all fair game? >> its fair game and its law. its only been used once. its a very blunt instrument. they are dismantling things that are very much in the public interest. the methane rule, we have a huge methane cloud, the size of ...

Process. the first step was changing the structure of washington, putting the power back to the people. thats where you saw the passage of the raines act and the regulatory accountability act. now were starting to part two. the congressional review act. were going to -- im not going to go through the full list well have this week but let me highlight just two of them. we will start with the stream buffer. stream buffer will actually affect more than 64% of the counties coal reserve. put them on ...