time now for hits and misses of the week. kim, first to you. if a company went out to colorado and poked a hole in a gold mine and sent millions of gallons of toxin flurry down rivers and then didn t tell anyone about it and under estimated how bad it was, executives would be going to jail. instead this is the epa. so administrator gina mccarthey still has her job and no bureaucrats are being held accountable. americans hate it when the government is held to a different standard than average citizens. i m just saying this might be a good theme for some presidential candidates out there. thanks. mary? i m giving a big miss to secretary of state john kerry
directed his cabinet to issue a series of new regulations that don t require the approval of congress. on tuesday he rolled out his latest order. we re going to double the distance our cars and light trucks can go on a gallon of gas by 2025. we re going to double it. today i m directing the secretary of transportation, anthony fox, who is right there, former mayor of charlotte, and gina mccarthey, the administrator of epa, two outstanding public servants, their charge, their goal is to develop fuel economy standards for heavy duty trucks that will take us well into the next decade just like our cars. and you know this is a reminder, some of the other directives he s issued in recent weeks. i ve acted to require federal c contractor the to pay a reasonable wage.