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Incompetence, there's 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 but, it has withdrawn from the paris climate agreement.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 don't 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 stopped by the congress. the so-called methane rule is defeated in the senate. states are countermandin...

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 don't 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 they're trying to codify some of these destructive changes to eliminate environmental regulations. an...

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? >> we're going to do it right. it's better to produce energy here under reasonable regulation. as an example, the methane rule. everyone should realize my position on methane is that it's a waste to vent methane but we need to have the injection systems in place. but if you don't have a pipeline, you can't ...

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 obama's final term. is this all fair game? >> it's fair game and it's law. it's only been used once. it's 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 delaware, over new mexico and the four corners area. we are trying to clean that up. it's good ...

Process. the first step was changing the structure of washington, putting the power back to the people. that's where you saw the passage of the raines act and the regulatory accountability act. now we're starting to part two. the congressional review act. we're going to -- i'm not going to go through the full list we'll 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 off limits. we're talking somewhere between 40,000 to 78,000 jobs are threatened. talking about...