Remarks and then i will ask questions. You can submit questions as well. But first your opening remarks. Welcome. Thank you for the introduction but i want to welcome aei for inviting me to be here today earlier this month i have reflections on the last 50 years of the epa 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 will get to this future. It is incontrovertible today the environment is in better shape under President Trump and we found it. Since 2017 air pollution in this country has fallen 7 percent. Last year superfund sites the most in a single year since 2001 and b will list another 27 this year the epa is trying to finance more than 40 billion of clean Water Infrastructure supporting 7100 projects and 27000 jobs during President Trumps first term and they have recovered more criminal and civil appointees them the Obama Biden Administration did and their first term. The
Check out all of the cspan products. Go to cspanstore. Org. Check out all of the cspan products. Host we are back with peter canellos, editoratlarge with politico and we talk about his story, are americans falling out of love with their landmarks . Good morning. Guest good morning. Host why did you decide to write this article . Guest i was shocked when i heard about the very persistent since the colonials got their first taste of history there. Visitors ship is about half of what it was in the late 80s. You look at somebody someplace like gettysburg, an amazing sight, americas greatest clash, the High Water Mark of the confederacy and turning born of the civil war point of the civil war. It is down about a quarter of what it was in the 1970s. These are surprising statistics. When a collie photographer bought it to our attention, we decided to do a photo essay and to also kind of meditate on what it is that has decreased our interest in these Historic Sites. With, from back talking to
Some of our most iconic sites so youre looking atcolonial williamsburg, i traveled there as a child, you traveled there. A lot ofamericans got their first taste of American History there. This airship is about half what it was in the late 80s. You look at gettysburg, iconic sites, amazing site. Americas greatest, High Water Mark of the confederacy, turning point of the civil war. Its down about a quarter of what it was in the 1970s. These are very surprising statistics and when a colleague brought them to our attention, we decided to do a photo essay to also kind of meditate on what it is that has decreased our interest in these Historic Sites. And what i came back with from talking to people and from looking at some of the numbers is that the sort of cold war era american story that tale of great events and visiting the scenes where the homes and the meeting places of great figures in American History, people have lost interest in it. Its no longer relevant and credible to people in t
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Thank you, pastor keaton, ms. Keaton, members of morris brown ame for welcoming us tonight. Hopefully we will have another chance to hear the choir. Thank you all. It is so nice to be back together and have an opportunity to discuss things that matter in this community and discuss how we can make them better, and i want to thank i hope you have had the opportunity to get some of the food that was served up outside by, first of all, morris brown member Reggie Simmons cooking up a lot of the sides, and then we had ben connell come down here from South Carolina. He is so committed to what the foreign means and what is doing. He is a lawyer in Kershaw County and he drove down here and cooked the chicken and sausage for us, and he didnt just cook it. He donated time and all of that food and that is a commitment to the community and we thank you so much, my friend, ben. I want to thank some other people while we get started, make sure i get these sponsors right. Dominion energy, el hoppa fou