We take you live now to the house science, space, Technology Committee hearing featuring epa administrator Michael Regan. The hearing will review the Environmental Protection Agency Science and technical activities and their use he will order. Without objection, the chair is authorized to declare recesses of the committee at any time. Before my Opening Statement i would also like to request unanimous consent to submit chairman lucas stopped Opening Statement to the bracket. I recognize myself for five minutes for Opening Statement. I would like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing, science and technology at the Environmental Protection agency. Im pleased to welcome epa administrator Michael Regan for the first time in front of the Science Committee. In fact it is the first time any epa administrator has testified since 2019 and we have a lot to discuss. Thank you for coming. I appreciate you joining us today. I have to say her testimony was sent to the committee unacceptably la
If you will take your seat please. Good afternoon i am peter carmichael. I am the director of the Civil War Institute and its my pleasure to welcome vienna dean fiona dean halloran. Arrival she spent four years teaching 19thcentury American History at Eastern Kentucky university, as well as several years in the history departments of ucla. She finished her phd at ucla and studied under joan law. Many of us are familiar with joan. She has spoken here on a number of occasions and the author of a superb biography of ulysses s. Grant. An, fionas dissertation became thomas nast the father of modern political cartoons published in 2013. It is my pleasure to welcome fiona. [applause] fiona hi. I want to thank you for inviting me here and actually for all the help she provided as i prepared to come and spend this hour with you. Im here to talk about thomas nast. What i will do is introduce him to you broadly at first, and then talk more specifically about what the civil war did for thomas nast
River every morning. He did nothing to kid would do it. Nast went down for days. Every day he would observe the background. What time the whistle blew that everybody got on the ferry and how it looked and decided what he wanted to be in the illustration. Having sketched in the background and decided on the framing, do when one morning and produced a very attractive sketch that he presented to frank leslie, who of course was trapped by his own hubris and head off for the young man a job. From that moment nast work for the rest of his life steadily. Though not always for steady people. You may already know that one of the problems with frank leslie was he often did not pay people who worked for him, which they did not like very much. He works pretty steadily. First for frank leslie in the for the new york illustrated news, harpers weekly. It was at harpers weekly he built his career. That was the thing that catapulted him into fame. And for a while fortune, though that is a sad story. Yo
Thank you, holly. The Drinking Water in wilmington, North Carolina is tested for a toxic substance called genx used in nonstick products. It turned up recently in the Cape Fear River, which supplies 250,000 people. Jericka duncan is in wilmington. Reporter this fayetteville plant 80 miles upstreet from wilmington where genx is manufactured by dupont, and Company Officials revealed the chemical has been released into the river for nearly four decades. They caught us offguard. Wilmington mayor bill safo. We dont know what will this do to us drinking it for long period of time. Three year study by North Carolina State University and the epa out this past fall, showed an elevated presence of genx in wilmingtons tap water. But the findings werent publicly disclosed until this month. So i ask all of you to keep this going until our walter is clean reporter last Week City Council meeting was standing room only. Why has this been allowed to go on for so long . I have been drinking this water m
Harry potter captioning sponsored by cbs this is the cbs evening news. Mason good evening. Im anthony mason. The Supreme Court gave the green light today to President Trumps travel ban. The 90day moratorium on citizens of six mostly muslim countries entering the u. S. The administration said the 90 days would be used to review screening procedures to keep terrorists out. Its now been 150 days since the been was first signed. The justices did put some limits on it, but it could go into effect as soon as this week after months of court battle. Heres chief Legal Correspondent jan crawford. Reporter the federal government will now gear up to start denying visas to certain people from six majority muslim countries after justices handed the president his first victory in the legal appeals over his travel ban. In an unsigned opinion announced by chief justice john roberts, the court said the interest in preserving National Security is an urgent objective of the highest order. It was a rebuke