release petroleum by-products from the earth and can be a very efficient way of getting at energy sources, but people are also concerned we do not know what the chemicals are that are injected into the earth in order to do that. do you think that there should be additional regulation of that? and does epa have enough room to maneuver in order to protect drinking water supplies in a fracking environment? so epa s in the middle of a study. it s going to take us another year and a half to look at the impacts of fracking on ground water. i think it s really important to get scientific information to show the american people what we know. epa has access to more data than is publicly available. and also to have our scientists look and crunch those numbers. in the meantime, we ve also said where there are concerns, if there need to be additional enforcement, we can do that work. listen, as an environmentalist, i think natural gas is important to our country. i do think that it is a potentia
we re talking about the kind of votes that will literally gut the clean air act. something most americans are sitting at home assuming will be there to protect their families. it s really important to remind folks that we re not talking about the ability to see across the street which is a nice thing, we re talking about pollution that gets into your lungs, makes you sick. if you have a respiratory ailment, you ll be at the hospital or the doctor. if you re vulnerable, we re talking premature deaths. just one of our rule the, the mercury rules that the president talked about in this joint session to congress is estimated to save, to prevent 17,000 premature deaths a year. so we re not talking about the abstract clean air act. and even those pictures. we re talking about public health. we re talking about who pays those costs. health costs or do polluters pay to reduce emissions? one of the areas of regulation and, i guess, and lack of regulation that s been a lot of concern to a lot
it s really important to remind folks that we re not talking about the ability to see across the street which is a nice thing, we re talking about pollution that gets into your lungs, makes you sick. if you have a respiratory ailment, you ll be at the hospital or the doctor. if you re vulnerable, we re talking premature deaths. just one of our rules, the mercury rules that the president talked about in this joint session to congress is estimated to save, to prevent 17,000 premature deaths a year. so we re not talking about the abstract clean air act. and even those pictures. we re talking about public health. we re talking about who pays those costs. health costs or do polluters pay to reduce emissions? one of the areas of regulation and, i guess, and lack of regulation that s been a lot of concern to a lot of people this year is fracking. the means by which people release petroleum by-products from the earth and can be a very efficient way of getting at energy sources, but people ar