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News anchor scott walker who was prevented from speaking to cleanup workers will join me in a moment. you will recall that bp is trying to stop its own cleanup workers, many of them fishermen, from wearing protective gear as the executive director of the louisiana environmental action network told us this week. >> when our folks, our fishermen folks had their respirators on they were told to take them off, that they would be fired if they used them. i think that perhaps they're afraid they'll admit some sort of liability that there is a problem in the air if they allow them to use the respirat...

>> what are you hearing about whether or not workers are even wearing their protective gear, are they being encouraged to wear it by bp or not? >> no, they're not being encouraged at all. i serve on a small community foundation that has been giving emergency grants that enable local groups to purchase respirators and protective gear that are provided at no charge to people in the gulf who are involved in the clean up. what we have been told by the folks who are involved in the cleanup work is that when they have come to the job site wearing their respirators and protective gear that they've be...

Are they being encouraged to wear it by bp or not? >> no, they're not being encouraged at all. i serve on a small community foundation that has been giving emergency grants that enable local groups to purchase respirators and protective gear that are provided at no charge to people in the gulf who are involved in the clean up. what we have been told by the folks who are involved in the cleanup work is that when they have come to the job site wearing their respirators and protective gear that they've been provided, they were told by bp representatives that they would be terminated from employme...

Folks who go out and they're doing the cleanup work, they come back, they feel better, and they go back again because it's a choice between feeding their family and not having any money to feed their family. and they're willing to sacrifice their health to feed their family, and i think that's tragic. >> you're group has been distributing what protective gear you have to these workers. do we know what bp's reaction has been to workers showing up with their own protective gear? >> yes, i'm glad that you brought that up. lean and the mississippi riverkeeper is distributing protective gear when o...

Doing the cleanup work, they come back, they feel better and they go back again because it's a choice between feeding their family and not having any money to feed their family, and they're willing to sacrifice their health to feed their family and i think that's tragic. >> your group has been distributing what protective gear you have to these workers. do we know what bp's reaction has been to workers showing up with their own protective gear? >> yes. i'm glad that you brought that up. the lower mississippi river keeper is distributing protective gear when our folks, our fishermen folks had t...