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[inaudible conversations] good morning this hearing will come to order. Its the day to do the environment subcommittee with fiscal year 2021 budget request for the Environmental Protection agency. And acting chief Financial Officer welcome to both of you. The president s request 2021 to 66 billion to the epa and 27 percent cut hello fy 2020. This seeks to undo all the progress we were able to achieve in a broad bipartisan basis fy 2024 example to request to eliminate 30 mine Million Dollars of new funding we provided to the epa and requests with Clean Energy Funding grants by 47 percent and 9 ...

[inaudible conversations] good morning. Today is the day we will examine the president s fiscal year for the epa joining with morning is administrator wheeler and acting chief Financial Officer. Welcome to both of you. Fiscal year 2021 the president s 66 billion to the epa but this request the presidency of what you were able to achieve on the fy 2020. And then to eliminate the new funding we provided to address pfas and the Clean Energy Funding grants c by 47 percent at 409 million fy 2020 also has money from the 3 billion we invested with our nations crumbling Water Infrastructure. Recently ...

Limit our fossil fuel consumption and so we cant just talk about banning fracking without talking about specifics on alternatives to liquid transportation fuels and alternatives to natural gas in the power sector obama did call it a bridge fuel in terms of getting us off coal but it seems to be much more of a geo political issue we see with the fracking and the doubling of production its really hailed across bipartisan issues as like where the Number One Oil producer in the world so once it jumps to that level it becomes way more difficult to get off it what do you think about this the Obama A...

Environmental issues related to fracking which involves injecting water because with chemicals in particular its like sand very High Pressure deep into hard rock formations youre basically putting a jet engine on the drill and using water at High Pressure instead of the drilling operation so theres tons of Environmental Issues water issues but theres also Climate Change the more oil and natural gas produce we produce the more Greenhouse Gas emissions we emit into the atmosphere and so i think what young people are responding to is we have to respond to the Climate Crisis and the only way to ef...

From moscow is sunday so were taking you through some of the biggest stories covered here over the past week 1st. Tensions running high in the water. The leaders of Turkey Russia france and germany will discuss ways to resolve the crisis next month that announcement comes amid an ongoing exchange of offensives between Syrian Government forces and Turkish Backed militants. Turkey which supports socalled moderate armed groups has recently flooded the region with troops and equipment that was in response to a syrian offensive in the last terrorist stronghold in the region considers the province s...