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Announcing $56 million in grants to fund the cleanup of hisser or the cli contaminated properties known as brown fields. and through the grants, the epa is empowering communities with experiencing economic distress to clean up the sites and more steps to redevelop vacant and underutilized prompts to transform to productive benefits for the local communities. >> all right. as soon as he takes questions, we will dip back in. so a quick, quick break, and we are back at the white house in a moment.

There have been other things like the brown fields issues where there's been pressure put on big companies that have to clean up environmental destruction. it's been known that christie is steering business somehow through the government to people who are his supporters. and ultimately, the theory is that the money comes back to him through political support. that is really harder to understand. if it hadn't been for bridgegate, that incident that captured the public imagination, probably the rest of the stuff which i think is more serious, wouldn't be examined. >> one thing's for sure. there'...

It sounds like old-time republican talk. very old-time. >> yeah. it's hard to figure out who he is pandering to. but what we want to see is a strong partnership with our federal government. we want a president who will stand up for working families and middle class security. there were more than a million jobs at risk in this great recession in the auto industry alone. the president took a decisive step. he made some smart decisions that put people back to work. and there were some other provisions that made sure that the assets, the land, the brown fields, in a place like flint are now in res...

>> they are nature's little housekeepers. they eat it as a food source, degrade it. they take it apart molecule by momolecule. >> reporter: this is one of several companies pitching a type of oil-eating bacteria to help cleanup the gulf. the prod subject is make from naturally occurring microbes that are concentrated, fermented and sprayed on the oil. it's commonly used to cleanup toxic industrial accidents, jet fuel spills and brown fields. oil-eating bacteria was used to help cleanup the alaska shoreline from the exxon valdez spill in 1989. >> we are speeding up nature. if we leave it for na...

Hay, hair, absorbent booms, containment booms, dispersants and barges have been seen as a possible well. there is one technique we have not seen yet but could see soon. oil eating back tier yanchts bacteria. they degrade it molecule by molecule. >> start off with a very small concentration. >> biotechniques in sarasota, florida is one of several companies pitching a type of oil eating bacteria to help clean up the gulf. their product munox is made from natural occurring microbes that break down oil and concentrated, fer meanted and sprayed on the oil. a process called bioremediation. it's comm...