On how they have been impacted by environmental regulations. The Senate Environment and Public Works Committee heard from industry stakeholders, including representatives from the American Farm bureau, the National Farmers union and the National Pork producers council. This hearing is an hour and 45 minutes. Good morning. I call this hearing to order. Today, well hold a hearing on the impact of federal environmental regulations and policies on American Farming and ranching communities. The discussion here today is not about the value of environmental regulations but about how some federal regulations can be inflexible, antiquated, duplicative and ultimately harmful to american agriculture, a critical part of our nations economy. Members of this committee should work to ensure environmental laws are strong and effective without being overly burdensome. This is often a difficult task. The United States is blessed with diverse ecosystems that often require different kinds of stewardship t
Start of the trading day. How are things now . S por the dow and the mostly unchanged. What is catching my eye is the nasdaq. A few things pushing the nasdaq higher. We have apple coming out september 12. Screens. Oled on a smaller version, we have some other biofarma appears peers. The transportation index outperforming the dow industrial. Let me touch on transportation. We will dig a little bit into that. We can see the s p index higher. Bonnie mentioned products in Corpus Christi and houston being shut down. Or haves our new mode of transportation would be in tracking. Airlines are getting canceled in houston, texas, and the surrounding area. Sticking with harvey, i want to look at gasoline over the last five days. This highlights a big jump. Today up 3. 4 . That is translating into higher prices at the pump. I mentioned the nasdaq and the biotech. My favorite this morning was gileads takeover. You are seeing some other Small Pharmaceutical Companies trading in sympathy a little bit
These are the words being described used to describe hurricane harvey, the largest rainfall in continental u. S. History. We will go to houston to get our petro etch a on the unfolding Environmental Crisis as Oil Refineries a and chemical plan release thousands of popounds of airbororne pollutants. Plus, we will speak with naomi klein. She has a message to the media talk about Climate Change. We will also speak with one of the worlds bebestknown climate ntists, dr. James theink the peoeople question people are asking is what is the impact on humans of this hurricane and there are substantial impacts on sea level , the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere and therefore the amount of rainfall, and also the strength of stotorms. Humans are already impacting all of those to a substantial degree. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas and louisiana, at least 30 people have died, more than 17,000 pe
Rainfall in continental u. S. History. We will go to houston to get our petro etch a on the unfolding Environmental Crisis as Oil Refineries and Chemical Plants release thousands of pounds of airborne pollutants. Plus, we will speak with naomi klein. She has a message to the media talk about Climate Change. We will also speak with one of the worlds bestknown climate ntists, dr. James theink the people question people are asking is what is the impact on humans of this hurricane and there are substantial impacts on sea level , the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere and therefore the amount of rainfall, and also the strength of storms. Humans are already impacting all of those to a substantial degree. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas and louisiana, at least 30 people have died, more than 17,000 people are in shelters, hundreds of thousands are under evacuation orders, and all past u. S. R
These are the words being described used to describe hurricane harvey, the largest rainfall in continental u. S. History. We will go to houston to get our petro etch a on the unfolding Environmental Crisis as Oil Refineries a and chemical plan release thousands of popounds of airbororne pollutants. Plus, we will speak with naomi klein. She has a message to the media talk about Climate Change. We will also speak with one of the worlds bebestknown climate ntists, dr. James theink the peoeople question people are asking is what is the impact on humans of this hurricane and there are substantial impacts on sea level , the amount of water vapor in the atmosphere and therefore the amount of rainfall, and also the strength of stotorms. Humans are already impacting all of those to a substantial degree. Amy all that and more, coming up. Welcome to democracy now, democracynow. Org, the war and peace report. Im amy goodman. In texas and louisiana, at least 30 people have died, more than 17,000 pe