i want to reintroduce you to jane. jane bought her car a few years ago for $33,000. gets about 24 miles per gallon. she drives 5 days a week and fills up every other week. in 10 years, by 2025, it s time to buy a new car. under current standards the car would get over 50 miles per h r gallon. she would only have to fill up once every month and a half. now, under new proposed standards, that car would now cost jane much less. of the but here s the kicker. she could still be filling up at least once a month. this is one example of a consumer. truth is markets and technology are already heading in this direction. all standards aside. joining me is nbc news chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson who has just gotten off the fine with the department of transportation and the epa to
mike isn t quite close enough to hear what the president is saying. we ll keep an eye on this and move to other topics. we ll bring you anything that happens. this week president trump signed a house resolution into law, which would roll back an obama-era regulation protecting streams from coal mining runoff to dig into the effects of this i m joined by nbc news chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson, who covers environmental affairs for us. good to see you. good to see you. first off, when you hear these rolling back a regulation that was to protect stream water, most of us would think, that doesn t sound like a great thing for the environment. no it s not, if you talk to environmentalists. they re very upset about this decision by the trump administration. essentially what this rule would have done is protect waterways
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avo: all of great britain, all in one place book on expedia before april 30th and save up to thirty percent. the coast guard and the oil companies are trying to prevent an environmental tragedy. today a sheen of oil, up to 100 square miles, floats over the gulf. as crews work to contain the damage, environmentalists worry about sperm whales that feed near the sunken rig and the possibility the oil could harm the official fishing areas and the wetlands. that was nbc news chief environmental affairs correspondent ann thompson, four years ago this very day, reporting on the environmental impact when bp s oil rig exploded. killing 11 people and spewing some 200 million gallons of oil into the gulf of mexico for 87 days. just last week, bp announced the
they increase, then you run the risk of melting, and that s what they re trying to avoid. who s the honest broker here, lawrence? the truth is i don t know, and i am not sure anyone knows. you ve got people who are trying to get the best information they can, but when they re not sure of the information, that s why you have governments urging their people to leave because you just can t take that risk. nbc news chief environmental affairs correspondent anne thompson reporting to us from london. thank you for joining us tonight, anne. take care. joining me now, paul gunther. your group is an anti-nuclear power advocacy group. yes. in a situation like this, what is the danger of overreacting to what has occurred? let me put it this way. we have a situation unfolding now that was an accident that was never analyzed. so nobody has had the experience of bringing a full nuclear reactor core out of the reactor, out of containment at unit 4, and placing it in a pool of