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A huge amount that's more than half and basically if we want to change you know how things are done in places like the democratic republic of congo which accounts for 70 percent of global production would have to rethink whether we use our cell phones and laptops and so that's a huge ask for a lot of people and of course buying in the electric vehicle in itself is not going to change things if there is going to change things here perhaps your emissions but doesn't change the mining practices in those places and that's part of the problem you have to look at the whole the plight chain and a lot...

Things environmental. >> i do enjoy working with nature-inspired. so you will see a lot of birds, flowers and trees in my work. but not so obvious are chaya's choice of materials. fuelled by that same eco passion, they too help uniquely set her designs apart from many others. >> so it's all recycled, repurposed material rather than, say, a mix of recycled and newly mined. >> reporter: every bit of gold, silver or platinum, every gem chaya has made it her mission to not purchase a speck of newly mined mineral or gem stones. a vow she made years ago while researching the mining industry. >> i wa...

Target. >> i am not barack obama, i am guns, coal and the epa. >> there is no question that epa regulations hurt coal. what politicians won't say that sis after a century of mining the coal supply has been drained. >> the easiest to reach coal scenes are difficult to get to what is left of the coal. >> as one group of retired miners told me new mining practices play a role. >> the people leaving, it has come to the point now, where they don't do under ground mine figure they can get away with it. mountain top removal. can you mine a mountain side within a year or two seven to 12

From west virginia to address this issue, and we could not make that happen tonight. so it is no political accident that we are talking to a member of congress from california. you are chairman, though, you are in a position of power to make something happen and it is important to hear your voice on this. the president has suggested, i think, in his comments that the bush administration, his predecessors were somehow more lax on this than we have seen in the past. can we really look back at the record and say republicans have been worse than democrats or democrats have been somehow better than...

Coal-state representatives. and when push comes to shove, there's a tendency to go with the industry, with some wonderful exceptions in representatives. but the fact is the power of coal, the control of the economies, they control the livelihood, they control the economics and they want to control it like it's the 1800s as opposed to 2010. the fact of the matter is they continue to jeopardize lives. you have this mixed signal. 2009 was the safest year in many, many years in mining history and at the end of this comes this accident. but the fact of the matter is the law is inadequate to provide...