Protection agency, Andrew Wheeler, was on capitol hill to testify on the epas role on the coronavirus response. This Senate Environment and public works hearing is almost 2. 5 hours. I would like to welcome the administrator of the epa, Andrew Wheeler interested committee today. Todays hearing is the opportunity to hear about their good work and a chance for Committee Members to ask questions. The Environmental Protection agency is test with detecting the air we breathe, the water reaching and the communities where our family live. During the covid19 pandemic the agency has worked hard to provide the public with updated information on which disincentive disinfectants can be safely used to kill the virus. In addition, the epa has made Grant Funding available to the states and the tribes to help low income and minority communities address coronavirus. A has provided thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment to aid Health Professionals during the pandemic. A issued guidance to
Wheeler interested committee today. Todays hearing is the opportunity to hear about their good work and a chance for Committee Members to ask questions. The Environmental Protection agency is test with detecting the air we breathe, the water reaching and the communities where our family live. During the covid19 pandemic the agency has worked hard to provide the public with updated information on which disincentive disinfectants can be safely used to kill the virus. In addition, the epa has made Grant Funding available to the states and the tribes to help low income and minority communities address coronavirus. A has provided thousands of pieces of personal protective equipment to aid Health Professionals during the pandemic. A issued guidance to states and businesses on how it will enforce environmental laws when social distancing affects activities. Looking forward to hearing more about the agencys work during todays hearing. In addition to its work on the virus the agency has pursued
Which are used to sequester carbon dioxide. While we support wyomings protecting their Natural Resources and environment and we encourage other states to follow their to implement and enforce this Important Program under the Safe Drinking Water act. You. Ank carper. Senator carper mr. Chairman, delaware is right in he middle of a lot of busy corridor in the northeast. A lot of people live in the northeast. Heres a lot of traffic in the northeast. I95, 295. Through myomes right state. 80 of the pollution, particularly northern delaware, comes from sources outside of state. Generated by sources outside of our state. Fortunate of being downwind from a lot of the comes to that delaware. It keeps us out of compliance some of the area pollution, clean air requirements, that others are able to meet because places like wyoming and oklahoma where they dont have all those millions of cars coming ks and advance through there every month. Of e happens to be a couple coal fired plants. Three in pen
This morning. There is so much to learn and unpack we are fortunate to be joined by leading scholars and advocates of both sides to help us understand the arguments that we just heard. We will begin with Little Sisters of the poor case the first one argued and it is with great pleasure i introduce our two panelists professor of law at the Scalia School at george mason teaching family law and religion and property law and has written many books including putting childrens interest first and the conscience of theic institution and she filed a brief in support ofli Little Sisters with the petitioners on behalf of women scholars and louises deputy legal director at the aclu and the center for liberty that encompasses the work on womens rights was sexual and transgender rights and freedom of religion disability rights and has been with the aclu since 1982 as written many articles including religious refusal ofos accommodations and she filed a brief in support of the state of pennsylvania on
Joining us from the headquarters of the aflcio is the president of that organization, richard trumka. You about this moment in our countrys history. Lives have been upended. The stock market has seen a whipsaw. Lives are uncertain. What would you put this moment, now . It is a very serious moment for everyone in the country and it is probably a new chapter in our history that is going to be rewritten. We have things that have never happened before on a scale that have never happened before to this country. And we are going to have to get back the way we did during the world wars where we all started pulling together, to try to solve a common problem. That new chapter would begin with what . All, we hadst of several things that need to be done now. Threat of the virus itself. You have the threat of fear that everybody is going through. We have to overcome both of those. The first thing we should do, is to adopt a workplace contagious disease standard. So every employer knows what they h