Starting at 10 00 a. M. Eastern. David is on the phone from baltimore on our independent line. Good morning. Go ahead. Caller i am particular concerned with Water Pollution. Here in baltimore, you cannot eat the fish that you catch in the inner harbor. You have to drive 100 miles to fish. I would have to drive a considerable instance to be able fish and eat the fish i catch. I think Water Pollution is the worst of our offenses. To talk about your last his use of the word agitator. Host alexander on our independent line could would assure biggest Environmental Concern . Caller good morning. Thank you for cspan and for all you do. My first question really is if any of the hosts have read james book about the oncoming crisis that will occur due to Global Climate change and everything, and secondly, my biggest concern really is the fact that nobody really cares waters andean coastal waters will rise between and thiseet by 2050, will cause Incredible National security concerns across the world. For instance, in bangladesh excuse me there are many people that live at or below sea level, and once these waters rise, where are they going to move . India and pakistan have tense people movingi is fo across borders like that is not good for anyone. Yeah, that is premuch it. Host philip is calling from michigan on our democratic line. Good morning, philip. Caller good morning. God bless cspan, the only true nospan channel. The one that gets me is the one that went by a couple of days ago, a large asteroid or zings bye that the planet. We cant even get to the space station without asking permission to go there from like, theseit is things flyby on a regular basis and you can look them up on the computer. They have a whole project of them that go by, and yet we sit around and worry about nukes and blowing up our neighbors with nukes and increasing the amount of nukes we have when we should be getting together and worrying about doing something or trying to blast one of those asteroids that is coming. It is not a matter of if. It is only a matter of when. Thank you, cspan. In todays washington post, former secretary of state john kerry wrote an oped on this earth day, saying why he remains optimistic, even despite policies that he says might undermine effort to address Environmental Concerns. , americas his piece businesses and state and local governments know well what the future holds and are planning accordingly. That is why i am confident the United States will not only meet , but also exceed, the bold Emissions Reductions targets president barack obama set, even if the new Administration Takes the misguided step of revoking them. He goes on later to say, i spent election day 2016 headed to antarctica, where i talked with researchers who did not mince words. Gavinntist named dunbar described what they are seeing as an unmistakable canary in the coal mine. He warned that some thresholds, if we cross them, cant be reversed. The Trump Administration may decide to bet against scientists. We have to move forward with or without washington. Matt is on the phone from maysville, north carolina, good morning. Caller good morning. I want to make a comment on the impact we as humans have on the environment, mostly the way we consume, especially in the developed world, how many people there are in the undeveloped world once they start consuming like us, our population growth, and how much that will expand even more as science and our lifespansps get longer, and i dont see any bing the way we as humans consume and the future impact that will have, and people dont talk about that too much, so i wanted to make a comment. Taking your are calls about your biggest Environmental Concerns as we are watching live coverage of todays programs, which include the march on science in washington dc, as well as speeches and musical performances that would take place on the National Mall. John is calling from arkansas on a republican line. Good morning. Caller i just want to let you know i have studied this stuff. People seem to be able to predict the future as if this is going to keep happening today, but we are changing things. With that the dirty water, vagina john appleseed got his name from that. The ocean is that is how Johnny Appleseed got his name from that. So, in time, everything will clean up. That is all i am saying. Host ok. We are talking with our viewers about your biggest concerns on this earth day. Republicans can call 2027488001, democrats hell, as independents 2027488002 we wait for the senators are seeking data on how americans are surveilled. Libertarian minded republicans are asking the nations top intelligence official to release more information about the communications of american citizens swept up in surveillance operations. The request by ron wyden of oregon and rand paul of kentucky adds to a course of calls for more transparency about how intelligence agencies use and Share Communications to, from, and about americans. Fromis on the phone california on our democratic line. Do you have concerns about the environment . Do, and thank you for cspan. It is a really great program, washington journal in particular. It is earth day, not environmental day. How is yourl day is environment . Are you comfortable . Is everything to your liking . We slaughter 56 billion animals every deer in this country, species diversity is my main concern. We have overpopulated this planet already. It is over populated. We are polluting our waters worldwide. Our greatest, most magnificent animals are coming near extinction. There was a thing on autobahn the other day, and he was concerned about the loss of birds and their habitat. We are so concerned with our self, our comfort, it is a sickness, and i am just appalled at this lack of attention to it. It is way down on the list. Earth day will come and go and nothing really changes. All the good efforts of these great organizations, and we are still losing all of these fantastic animals and we go out microscopicsome life on another planet. We need to be concerned about what we are doing to this planet. It is earth day, not environmental day. Thank you. Brian is calling from florida. Good morning. Are you still there, brian . We lost him. We will move on to hugh on a republican line. What are your concerns on this earth day about the environment . Caller i would have to say the rate of consumption of what china is doing with the power plants that they are producing. They are producing those things that record number. We had an administration that our coal kill consumption, but did not mention anything about the consumption china is going through week after week. There are more and more of these power plants being put into place. To electrifying their entire country, which can you blame them . We did it. They are in the middle of their Industrial Revolution as we are speaking. Love earth day. Been part of it ever since i can remember there was an earth day. I graduated in 1978, so i have been there since the beginning. I want to wish America Great earth day. Thank you. On the issue of energy in todays washington post, there is a piece that says, trump advisors call for reviving and natural gas project on the oregon coast. A top adviser on thursday appeared to throw the Administration Support behind a proposed liquefied natural gas that had beenegon rejected by regulators during the obama administration. The first thing we are going to do is we are going to permit an lng export facility in the northwest, said gary cohn. Just think of the transport time to japan versus anywhere else. Then we have got to put facilities on the east coast to get from the east coast to germany. Not name ahn did specific project, the white house confirmed he was referring to the terminal that would be located in oregon. P next, dan dan is calling from greensboro, georgia on a republican line. Good morning. What are you concerned about on this earth day . Caller my greatest concern about the environment is the amount of rubbish left behind by environmentalists after earth day, incredible hypocrisy. Host ok. Teresa is calling from redding, california on the democratic line to what are your concerns today on earth day, teresa . Caller i live in beautiful Shasta County in northern i am surrounded by natural forests, rivers, and lakes. My biggest concern is trump is bound and determined to get rid of the protections of these places come of these beautiful places, and that is what concerns me most today, is the regulations being lifted on these beautiful lands. That was it. Host ok. In from tampa, florida on our independent line. Good morning, mary. Caller good morning. Happy earth day. Have been around. I graduated in 1974 and i and when i am onerson vacation i spend at least 12 days doing beach cleanup and things like that, however, i do believe like the other man said too easy andar the this disposable society. Reusing it and recycling it properly is amazing to me. My main point today is i am very concerned about the fact that these environmentalists seem to be ok with the fact they are trying to lift restrictions on the protection of the bald and Golden Eagles so they can promote wind farms. That is a canary in the coal mine to me. That is our national symbol. That is a fragile ech ecosystem. Im surprised that nobody is or doing that anything about it. They are trying to relax those regulations good this has been going on since president obama was in office. Largereid, his son owns wind farms in nevada, and who in thewhere else country. That is something that upsets me a great deal. Host ok. Call a is calling from washington, d. C. On our democratic line. What is your concerns about the environment, paula . Concern about a indoor air pollution, the use of products that harm our skin, our respiratory system, our eyes, and the relative ignorance of those charged with using them. I live in an apartment building, and at one time we had a green committee. I thought that was wonderful. It now seems to be mor think are among the Environmental Issues compared and water certainly critical, and the protection of animals and trees, but this i think is not where it should be in terms of awareness. Host whod you think should focus on that awareness . Do think that is the job of government officials . Do you think if vince like today and elsewhere do that . Think of that events like today and elsewhere do that . Caller thank you for bringing that up. Regulation to strengthen the use of, the Regulatory Oversight of certain products like what is floor. En you refinish a that sort of thing. There are things which smell bad , but cannot harm you, then there are things which smell bad and can harm you, and i am , again,d that this will they are trying to decimate the epa, and what it does can directly affect the indoor air pollution problem. Host ok. In an editorial this week in the washington times, the papers says, it is earth day, not tuesday. Making the point that the president is focused on reviving our economy and how that can be at odds. It says, President Trump has begun rolling back the. Ean air act the schema preventing Global Temperatures from rising more than two degrees celsius above ofindustrial levels demanded the paris signatories obligates the United States to ride the brakes on any Economic Activity that in its exhaust, which includes just about everything. A goes on to say whether mr. Trump withdraws the United States from the Paris Agreement or not, it is an attempt that was policy during the obama administration. The rest of us can celebrate that. Ruth is calling from pennsylvania on a democratic line. What is your biggest Environmental Concern . I think they use such massive amounts of water to drill down and blast out the chemicals that are put in. It is just we need drinking water. Everybody is screaming we dont have enough water to sustain the planet for much longer, but now they are using chemicals. Our people totally crazy . Nobody gets it. Nobody gets it. Im sorry, like i said there are so many concerns. I feel bad for the native americans in south the coda come a transporting oil underneath their water. There are so many things, but the fracking is my biggest concern because it has gone around the country. I have maps of everyone fracking, what has been approved, whats looking to get approved, and it is very concerning because we dont have enough water to drink. Thanks for taking my call. Host kenneth calling from cincinnati, ohio, on a republican line. Caller good morning. Global warming is a hoax. The endgame is a carbon tax on the american people. Clean airand act regulation worldwide, all of our advances will be decimated by other countries that dont follow it, but the bottom line is this, revelation chapter 20 and 21, gods ultimate Global Warming and we can do what ever we can do to conserve the earth, but we better fix ourselves that, because revelation chapter 20 and 21, that is the ultimate Global Warming. Host ok. One more headline from the associated press. Democrats threaten to shut down the government over the issue in december, but they retreated after winning a fourmonth extension that preserves benefits through april 30. , st. Louis, missouri on a democratic line could what are your concerns on this earth day . Caller thanks a lot for a chance to speak. My biggest concern is the letter ,nd trash being put down basically all over the country. I am from the north side of st. Louis. Kid, we saw trash and picked it up. Later on i joined the military. Louis andking of st. The urban environment, but i also notice litter in other parts of the country. Later on i went to japan and was amazed that over there there was no litter. You go to a festival with 300,000 people and at the end of the festival all the trash is gone because people were aware they dont put it down in the first place. They had a container to put it in and dropped it off. Anyway, what i would hope could happen is that people start looking more at when they are putting trash down. Basically why are they doing it . What will happen to it . Why arent they picking it up . What i would hope everybody would do listening to cspan today is for 15 minutes out of this day or next week, just pick up trash, even if it is not yours, but hopefully nobody put a dent in the first place, but thats not going to happen. So that would be my concern and something we can all do collectively that would help the environment, the oil, Global Warming, but that is one thing we can all do right now. That would help. Host ok. That is all for todays washington journal. We will be back tomorrow morning at 7 00 a. M. In the meantime, we take you to live coverage of earth days festivities on the National Mall that includes musical performances and speeches. Have a good saturday. Announcer a live picture now from the march for signs rallied that is expected to get under way and just a few moments. Our live coverage on cspan, again marking earth day,