Pollution Issues News Today

Environmental concerns, ESG, future training needs for maritime emergency response, and a status check on lithium battery fires are among topics for discussion

Apples looking at doing -- all these rumors apple is going to do a bigger headquarters somewhere else. the headquarters is in seattle, just the way it is and its been founded there and thats where the real headquarters are. other companies are looking to expand, but they wont do it so loudly. tax breaks are something we have to think about, a lot of mayors decided not to do this. san jose, another city, i forget the cities that declined to do it. the question is, should these cities pay to attra...

And ted cruz accused china of starting a cyber warfare in america. many are wondering how president obama will respond. i want to go back to one of the phrases that donald used, giant sucking sound, which immediately triggered in my head ross perot. its bringing back this economic angst that americans have, even on paper its good. >> one of the things thats hard for human beings, especially for americans, we see the world as america at the center and everyone else impacting us. china are moving ...

Set their hair on fire talking about how theyre going to crush america and we were going to be chinas grainry. its not working out that way. >> also raises real questions about "the chinese threat." so many people have this dark view of china. its possible as things get worse at home theyll get more adventurist abroad but the question is how to maintain stability amongst economic slowdown. we have tiananmen square. youll see significant protests in china. i would say the chinese leadership have ...

Rain. so time and time, when science pointed to health risks, special interests cried wolf to protect their own agenda, not the agenda of the american people, and time after time we followed the science, we protected the american people and the doomsday predictions never came true. >> since the clean air act was first passed in 1963 theres been a long history of bipartisan support in congress, bipartisan votes in congress to handle pollution issues. but todays limits, the announced limits today ...

Our lights are still on, and we have dramatically reduced acid rain. so time and time, when science pointed to health risks, special interests cried wolf to protect their own agenda, not the agenda of the american people, and time after time we followed the science, we protected the american people and the doomsday predictions never came true. >> since the clean air act was first passed in 1963 theres been a long history of bipartisan support in congress, bipartisan votes in congress to handle p...

Pollution issues. and all those things, of course, affect our planet and our oceans, but it affects us fundamentally. and thats what we really have to be worried about. >> lets talk about the six aquanauts that are going to be down there with you. >> yes. >> what are you going to do all day? >> well, theyre about as crazy as i am if theyre coming with me, but well be doing a lot of things. were going to be diving six to nine hours a day, going down to depths of up to 150 feet or maybe even more....

Werent safe. we had medicines that turned into prescriptions before well tested. we had a consumer market right down to meat and drugs were being given to the public. we were told, let the industries that produce them police them. that is like asking the fox to police the hen house. i made animal fox, not this fox. >> john: in this case it might be appropriate. >> in any case, you cant ask the people who are in the business of making things for profit to often police their goods. >> john: yes, y...

Rotting meat. we had nuclear plants that werent safe. we had medicines that turned into prescriptions before well tested. we had a consumer market right down to meat and drugs were being given to the public. we were told, let the industries that produce them police them. that is like asking the fox to police the hen house. i made animal fox, not this fox. >> john: in this case it might be appropriate. >> in any case, you cant ask the people who are in the business of making things for profit to ...