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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 there's been a long history of bipartisan support in congress, bipartisan votes in congress to handle pollution issues. but today's limits, the announced limits today on pollution from power plants, the...

Pollution issues. and all those things, of course, affect our planet and our oceans, but it affects us fundamentally. and that's what we really have to be worried about. >> let's talk about the six aquanauts that are going to be down there with you. >> yes. >> what are you going to do all day? >> well, they're about as crazy as i am if they're coming with me, but we'll be doing a lot of things. we're going to be diving six to nine hours a day, going down to depths of up to 150 feet or maybe even more. we're going to be looking at the fo phosphorusence and luminescence of the coral reefs, what ...

Weren't 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 can't ask the people who are in the business of making things for profit to often police their goods. >> john: yes, you can i would argue. let's talk about one at a time. you said nuclear. i'm with you that on pollu...

Rotting meat. we had nuclear plants that weren't 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 can't ask the people who are in the business of making things for profit to often police their goods. >> john: yes, you can i would argue. let's talk about one at a time. you...