the climate change portions of the build back better bill. and all he can do now is executive orders and as we have learned from every single president. executive orders are not only temporary but they don t pack the punch of legislation. bret: in the middle of this presentation today in massachusetts there was something that really raised eyebrows. this story that the president told, take a listen to it from delaware. guess what? the first frost, you know what was happening. you had to put on your windshield wipers to get literally the oil slick off the window. that s why i and so many damn other people i grew up with have cancer and why can t for the longest time delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation. bret: for a long time on social media everybody said wait a second, did he just say he has cancer? and then the white house had to come out and say he was referring to the moles that he had removed. it was another one of those moments. i think the climate change
slick off the window. that s why i and so many damn other people with have cancer and why can t for the longest time, delaware had the highest cancer rate in the nation, but that s the past and we are going to build a different future. with 1, 1 with clean energy, good paying jobs. 15 years ago america generated more than half 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 braden is on the frontier of clean energy in america. on this site they will manufacture 248 miles of high-tech heavy duty cables. those specialized sub c cables
original cancer moon shot in 2016 was largely viewed as having mixed success at best. pharmaceutical companies benefitted but the cancer rate did not go down as they hoped. any thought that this moon shot will be different? well, look, the last few years have been challenging for everyone. let alone cancer patients who had a hard time getting in the health care system to get screened and treated for colon cancer. i think, you know, being rewin vision rated for cancer and seeing that cancer treatment can be personalized and tailored to your individual case with drugs like this is encouraging. listen, it s great to do a good news story on this subject. thank you very much for your expertise. really appreciate it. my pleasure. parts of the u.s. are bracing for record breaking hot weather.
said annual cancer rate. a lot of it among the unvaccinated. then there s the different profiles. gaffigan, who self-identifies a as a little less healthy, that s part of his bit. he went right into that. we all recognize this part of the challenge, especially early on. you can give public health advice and everyone should get vax nitted. then you give advice about who is at risk. he jokes about this. take a look. we all went through the same pandemic, but we didn t have the same experience. if you were over the age of 25, it may surprise you, but i am. you watched the news more closely. the news guys would be line, high risk people are older. you re like, well, how old? like old, old or didn t have a cell phone in high school old? how old and as we catch up on the data, i want to show, for example, 75% of these covid
pollutants, it s the proverbial 1-2 punch michael regan came to see as the biden administration promises to address environmental in justices in minority and low-income communities. the general feeling here is that their government has failed them. i think the state and federal government and local government has failed the people in terms of effectively communicating and being transparent and offering some levels of relief. reporter: failing people like 81-year-old robert taylor, a lifelong resident of louisiana s cancer alley where the nation s highest cancer rate is concentrated. we want him to stop the slaughter. this is outright slaughter. reporter: these are all of taylor s family members diagnosed with cancer. almost everyone here has a cancer story. when you look at how much industry is here and the suffering that we re seeing, there has to be a correlation.