workplace standard for extreme heat saying under these conditions, you cannot do the following, you cannot ask people to do certain things. second, he s sending folks out from the labor department to make sure we hold workplaces and to those standards that are being set. they ve already completed over 500 heat-related inspections of workplaces across 43 states. let me tell you why we re here at braden point. five years ago this towering power plant which one stood with cooling towers 500 feet high cooled down. . 500 mega watts of power. over 50 years this plant supported this economy through the electricity they supply, the good jobs they provided and the local taxes they paid.
second, he s sending folks out from the labor department to make sure we hold workplaces and to those standards that are being set. they ve already completed over 500 heat-related inspections of workplaces across 43 states, and the end of the day it s going to save lives. at the end of the day, it s going to save lives. now, let me tell you why we re at break point, this towering plant that once stood with cooling towers 500 feet high closed down. a coal plant add braden point was the largest of its kind in new england. 1,500 megawatts of power, enough to power one in five massachusetts homes and businesses. for over 50 years this plant supported this region s economy through their electricity they supply, the good jobs they provided, and the local taxes they paid. but the plant, like many others around the country, had another legacy, one of toxins, smog,
very important at least for now final hearing where they re going to hit on the 187 minutes that the capitol was under siege and the former president did nothing to stop it. this will kind of be a culmination of everything we ve learned up until this point. now, the pairing of matt po pottinger and sarah matthews, both of who i ve worked with, sie sarah is a personal friend, is very interesting. sarah matthew was the on the trump campaign, hand picked by kayleigh mcenany to work in the white house, maga world isn t going to be able to attack her as a never trumper or as a rhino. on the other side you ve got matt pottinger who s got enormous credibility on both sides of the aisle as a national security professional, and he was the senior most nfc official in the white house on january 6th, so two very strong witnesses who are going to be able to talk about that critical day and what the former president was and was not willing to do and say, what the threat assessments were that were pr
say they re not finished searching. they say that it plans to try to recover any texts that might have been sent. they re searching through this metadata as well, so maybe at some point it will placate the committee members, but for now, they re still saying it s not enough. guys. not enough, jess, thank you. now to steve bannon s federal trial in d.c., the former trump adviser facing contempt of congress charges for failing to comply with the subpoenas from the january 6th committee. cnn s sara murray is at the federal courthouse. so what are you hearing that s happening inside that courtroom? reporter: well, look, at the start of the day today, the judge made it very clear he did not want this trial to be a political circus or some kind of arena for partisan politics. that s how the judge set the tone this morning. all throughout the morning and into this afternoon, they have been questioning this witness, kristin am early, a staffer for the house select committee. the prosec
window. that s why and so many other people grew up have cancer, and why delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation. but that s the past. and we re going to get we re going to build a different future. one with clean energy, good paying jobs. just 15 years ago, americans generated more than half of its electricity from coal, coal-fired plants. today that s down to 20%. because there s a big transition happening. many of these fossil fuel plants are becoming sites for new clean energy construction. others are switching to new clean technologies. look at braden point. today it is one of the frontiers, on the frontier of clean energy in america. on this site, they ll manufacture 248 miles of high-tech heavy duty cables. those specialized subsidy cables are necessary to tie offshore wind farms to the existing grid.