right. which costs more .h costs mo enu develop a new agency, right. to create the office ofvienta environmental justice. a we already have an epa. we have an environmental agency. . it cost 12 billion dollars a year. it has seventeen thousand employees that are part ofental the environmental protection agencyon agenc. then we have a doj if you want justice. right. we ve got the sixtybudget nine billion dollars was f their budget for this year. they hav e one hundred and fifteen thousand employees. so if you can t find someone who is already in the government to solve the problemssolve th that you rg ,you got another problem, ano creating another office, anothetherr agency is very unliy to solve any of the problemsfead that they address. and with regard to these testing, the effectiveness of t these plans, likhee the wind turbine issue, the pentagon is the most recent agency that s sounding an alarm about the wind turbines. e windthey re saying that it conflicts with military operati
president yuun sung nyull and thanked south korea for their non lethal aid to ukraine, but wanted it to do more. iurge i urge the republic of korea to continue and to step up on the specific issue of military support. i would say, that, at the end of the day, if the decision you need to make. if we don t want autocracy and tyranny to win, then they need weapons, that s the reality. south korea forbids its government sending weapons to countries engaged in conflict. even though south korean defence companies have sold over 12 billion dollars of military hardware to poland since the start of the invasion. stoltenberg is urging south korea to follow in the example of germany, sweden and norway who all had similar laws but made exceptions for ukraine. i m joined now by andrew d anieri, from the atlantic
what are your plans for future eight now you have new congress coming in. since the gop has been more skeptical, is that part of the motivation as to where it s coming. i think it s implicit everything that s happening. it s giving a primetime address tomorrow. it s not totally locked. and you mentioned the security concerns up on capitol hill. he made that trip at the same moment the lawmakers were voting to additional 45 billion dollars in ukraine. if you look through the scale of the course of the last year, you get a sense of how substantial it is starting with 13 point $6 million. 40 billion dollar packages. well this package of 45 billion dollars. 14 and break out with this current package actually represents, we get an understanding of the scope of things. it s not just military assistance. this package is defense assistance. but also 12 billion dollars for
invasion of ukraine sparked a energy crisis around the world. but it is important to keep in mind that oil companies aren t hurting, in fact the opposite, exxon just posted its highest profits ever. 19.7 billion dollars for just one quarter. chevron reap record profits in the prior quarter, over 12 billion dollars. today, president biden slammed what he called war profiteering. in the last six months, six of the largest oil companies have made more than 100 billion. 100 billion. what kind of capitalist i have no problem with corporations turning a for profit and getting the return on their investment on innovation. but this is not remotely what is happening. oil companies, they are not because they are doing something new or innovative, the profits are a result of war. a windfall from the brutal conflict that is ravaging ukraine and hurting tens of millions of people around the globe. the president went on to