Host that does it for todays washington journal. The American Enterprise institute is hosting epa administrator andrew weaver. That conversation is beginning now. Administrator we were, he will have some opening remarks and then i will have questions. You can ask questions to pitch as you can see on our event page and or youtube page, and questions on twitter at hashtags airandwater. First, his opening remarks. Admin. Wheeler i want to thank aei for inviting me to be here today. Month, i provided reflections on the past 50 years of the amber mental Protection Agency and laid out a plan for its future at the nixon library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past 40 years, how we are going to get to this future. It is incontrovertible that today, the environment is in better shape under President Trump than we found it. Air pollution in this country has fallen 7 . Manyyear, the apa delisted superfund sites. And we will ddelist another 27 this year.
Dick clark and john culver. Berkeley would go on to represent iowas sixth Congressional District for six terms. From 1975 to 1987. And i presume he would have served a lot longer if his health had held out, even though he lived another 30 lets see, you add it up, about another 32 years after that. Although berkeley and i didnt share the same political points of view, we did share a common approach for representative government, meaning with dialogue and feedback that was very necessary from our iowans if we were going to represent them properly, and most often the forum for that was our respective town hall meetings. Throughout our Service Together in congress, party labels didnt displace our ability to work with and for iowans. As one example, during the farm crisis of the 1980s, which is much worse than this farm crisis we have right now, we used our voices to raise Public Awareness and steer help to struggling farm communities in our home state. We did Everything Possible to shape f
Administration to withdraw from the paris climate agreement. Trump begins formal withdrawal from paris trying climate agreement. Potentially wrapping up just one day before the 2020 election. Remind us, what is the paris climate agreement . It is part of the united nate works United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse kitchens under the notion we have to do something about Climate Change. This paris accord was different than its predecessors and that each country submitted its own nationally determined contribution to reduce Greenhouse Gas emissions. SetObama Administration forth a plan largely based on domestic accreditation that we need to reduce Greenhouse Gas below 2005 levels by 2025. Throughout the years continuing to ratchet down emis sions. Trump camepresident into office he campaigned on withdrawing from the paris climate agreement area it is not news that we are doing this but this is a whole process that takes time. The process for withdrawal has been a threeyear process.
1 45 eastern today. Now to live coverage of the u. S. Senate here on cspan2. The presiding officer the senate will come to order. Todays opening prayer will be offered by robert lewis, former pastor and founder of better man, the National Mens organization from little rock, arkansas. The guest chaplain let us pray. Heavenly father, we give thanks for this new day and the hope that lies within it. We have been a blessed nation not by accident but by this. In you, god, we trust. Thank you for the men and women of this distinguished body who will again rise to face the immense challenge that will mark this day along with the special opportunities it holds for good. I pray you will make this body ready for both. In these turbulent times, empower their work with your spirit. Give them a difference making wisdom only you possess. Protect them from small ambitions. Call each heart here up to the higher ways of humility, understanding, and much needed unity. Help these leaders seek what is rig
Their borders and how to regulate them. Worst of all, the socalled Clean Power Plan would have barely reduced Carbon Emissions. It would have crippled our economy and done very little, if anything, to help the environment. President obamas plan wasnt just bad policy, it was illegal. 27 states, including wyoming, filed a lawsuit to stop the regulation. The Supreme Court ruled that obamas e. P. A. Went way beyond its legal authority. The court blocked the overreaching rule. Now President Trump has put forward a commonsense replacement to protect americas air. The Affordable Clean Energy rule follows the law and is good news for the people of wyoming and the rest of the country. It recognizes that the e. P. A. Is not supposed to pick winners and losers. Under the new rule, power plants can make reasonable changes like improving efficiency. The rule promotes the use of clean technologies, cleaner technologies to generate electricity so Energy Companies can modernize their power plants with