Law, government power and cutvidual ready, and also individual liberty, and also conservation. To discuss, i am pleased to be joined by administrator wheeler. We will offer some opening remarks and then i will have some questions. Too, as youwest and can see on our event page and our youtube page. Ask questions on twitter at hashtag aeicleanairandwater. First, some opening remarks. Administrator wheeler, welcome. Admin. Wheeler thank you, adam, for that great introduction. I fort to thank ae inviting me to be here today. Earlier this month, i provided reflections on the last 50 years of the Environmental Protection agency and laid out our plan for its future at the nixon library. Today, i would like to explain, based on what we have accomplished over the past four 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. Since 2017, air pollution in this country has fallen 7 . Last year, e
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.
With each one of you to try to craft a longterm piece of legislation to guide our nations farmers and ranchers and give them the certitude they need. My home state is the home of over 48,000 farms, and we have over 1 billion in farm exports a year. So this is a pretty big deal to us. Im honored they gave me an opportunity to be here and work on it. We strongly prefer to keep the usda food safety and Inspection Service catfish inspection program. In addition, the setting of target prices, which are vital to many alabama farmers. I also support giving the livestock industry relief from the troublesome mandatory country of origin labeling mandates. The negotiations we face will be tough, and i am certain that not any conferee is going to go home with everything they want. But its important that we be responsible stewards of the taxpayers dollars by maintaining the programs that are working and reforming those that dont. I believe we can work through these differences in a timely and bipar
Those limited days of a temporary restrange order, that restraining order, shouldnt be able to go out and buy a weapon. This isnt a denial of due process that the judge actually has to make a finding that there is a threat of violence. Those are fairly limited circumstances, but if this amendment is passed, we will save lives. You know, senator blumenthal closed and ill close in the same vein by noting that, well, this amendment will save lives; it is not going to dramatically change the reality in this country, which is 80plus People Killed every day by guns. But everybody has a role to play in trying to reduce the rates of gun violence. A young man in new haven by the name of doug bethea lost a close friend of his, a 16yearold boy named torrence gamble. We saw at a funeral for another friend of theirs killed by gun values, and torrence said he wanted to get off the streets and start setting his life straight. He wanted to set up a time to meet with his friend doug to find a way out.
Can model and maybe i can go to an example. It works and it works really well. It is a profit maker. It is a government arm, but a phenomenal example of how all things government are not bad, right . We need to figure out how we do that for infrastructure. We need to have a summit approach to that topic alone, because i think ports and rail and airports and all that, this is becoming a bottleneck. The Positive Side is the reason our Energy Market has become what it has become is because we have infrastructure. This countrys pipeline and Storage Networks and energy, which is why it is so important that we do not disable that that is why we have a Domestic Energy sector that is so competitive, to make a point. There is Proof Positive to why your question is something we ought to tackle. We move products all around the world, and our supply chain is world class. It rides on infrastructure, and and we see infrastructure across the world, and we have opportunities to improve the infrastruct