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From e. scott pruitt. then it looks to be his signature off to the side on the right. this first memo calls for epa regulators to start reporting any action they take, any regulatory action anywhere in the country. needs to now be reported in a central database. effective immediately, epa program and regional offices shall report all regulatory actions in the agency's regulatory management system. regulatory actions to be reported include but not limited to those relating to any statutory or deadlines, pesticide tolerances, significant new use rules, delistings, permits, federal implementation...

Statutory or deadlines, pesticide tolerances, significant new use rules, delistings, permits, federal implementation plans, state implementation plans. they should air on the side of including actions in the system. basically that means that if any action is taken anywhere by any epa office, any epa personnel anywhere in the country, a statement on how much pesticide it's safe to leave on a crop or response to a petition or response to a court, anything has to be reported to headquarters in d.c. everything, everywhere in the country goes through d.c. now. everything. so that's memo one. that's...

In fact, more than 40% of our greenhouse gas comes from coal-burning fired power power plants. moving ahead between now and 2014, you're going to have epa putting together a set of rules, but it's going to involve the states. and so these state implementation plans hopefully will take the common sense approach to be able to move forward and show the world that, yes, the united states can get something done. it would be better if congress were to act, but the reality of it is, it's going to happen in congress, and so it's going to happen through epa and executive authority of the united states....

>> chris -- >> i would like you to respond. those are strong words about the u.s. role in this. >> chris, i mean, let's be frank about this. what you've had here, you've had the president and some members of congress trying to move forward with this issue. you have an agreement of the united states that climate change is a reality and something needs to be done about it. you have epa now moving forward with greenhouse gas rules, and, in fact, more than 40% of our greenhouse gas comes from coal-burning fired power power plants. moving ahead between now and 2014, you're going to have epa putting...

With greenhouse gas rules, and, in fact, more than 40% of our greenhouse gas comes from coal-burning fired power power plants. moving ahead between now and 2014, you're going to have epa putting together a set of rules, but it's going to involve the states. and so these state implementation plans hopefully will take the common sense approach to be able to move forward and show the world that, yes, the united states can get something done. it would be better if congress were to act, but the reality of it is, it's going to happen in congress, and so it's going to happen through epa and executive...