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This tool do not start here. and we can access the data recorded by a london monitoring station. and we're looking at having to take action to counteract the threat of exceeding pollution limits. of their frequently unpopular measures and this tool helps city planners to say ok i'm going to have a problem and three to five days. that would mean keeping as many cars as possible out of the city those which do enter are charged a fee which increases in line with the amount of harmful exhaust a vehicle emits the cars are identified using london's road toll system which has been in place for fourte...

Against epa, he received contributions from his co-litigators, and he seems to view every lawsuit he takes as a fund-raising opportunity. >> if you look at the description, mark halperin, it looks like an antagonistic pick. >> we don't know anybody else in the country that would have been so antagonistic, and it's out of line what donald trump ran o. and i was surprised by this pick, and i am wondering where you think this will show up first, as you seem to be the worst case of what will happen in terms of the new policy, and where will peoples' lives begin to be affected first? >> i think as ...

Climate change is a fact, and when our children's children look us in the eye and ask if we did all we could to leave them a safer, more stable world with new sources of energy, i want us to be able to say, "yes, we did." [ applause ] >> the president's call for new pollution limits is already in the works without the need for any congressional action, specifically the epa has already shut down dozens of coal-fired power plants using existing emission standards and now the epa is poised to beef up the rules even more. under the current rules, coal-fired plants can legally put out 2,250 pounds ...

>> they are dangerous, because they are persistent. they will stay a long -- for very long in the environment. they accumulate in our body and they are toxic to us. >> if there's a lot of heavy metals, you know, obviously they, you know, toxic, they are carcinogen carcinogenic, and they disrupt the endocrine system. they affect, you know -- they cause, you know, cancer of different organs. >> reporter: local doctors say it's difficult to link pollution in the pearl river directly to adverse health conditions, though parts of the river have been declared unsuitable for human contact. the local ...

Metals, carcinogens, organic chemicals. these are things very hazardous to human health and can be linked to cancer, brain injury damage, kidney problems. i can tell you that the smell here is incredibly overpowering. it smells stagnant and really just plain foul. the government says it plans to invest $5 billion to improve wastewater treatment with regulations requiring companies to pass wastewater test and random inspections, fining those that exceed pollution limits, even vowing to shut them down. if they are violating standards we'll treat them as criminals, this official says, but officia...