american coal consumption is at a 40-year low. not because of regulation, but competition. for the first time ever, more power is being generated by cleaner, cheaper renewables. a free market trend president trump tried to accelerate with a tough carbon cap called the clean power plan. but after several groups sued, a conservative supreme court majority kept the rules from taking effect and today the epa killed them. instead, they ll give states three years to come up with their own pollution standards. our air and water are the cleanest they ve ever been by far. reporter: this is a lie. in fact, the american lung association said the air has gotten measurably worse in the last two years. and four in ten americans are now breathing unhealthy air. and according to a new york times analysis, this is one of 83 rules being rolled back on everything from toxic chemicals to endangered species to the
exxon mobile investment. there were other plans he claims cred p cant for that were announced before the election in 2016. there s a whole question about whetherre this kind of public policy works.et can you get a company to work against its economic interest with a we ll layoff of pollution standards. it does that change the position oof a big manufacturing plant? what we re hearing is the environment for companies like foxconn, as your watchers might know, that they are a big apple manufacturer and there are sluggish sales for apple right now and so what year hearing is that is contributing to their decision to rethink what they re going to to in wisconsin. i m sure the company didn t get where it got by making dumb
that address 6 concerns of aging, including heart health, supported by b-vitamins. your one a day is showing. while we ve been talking about election security and the mueller investigation, behind the scenes the trump administration is actively undercutting obama era signature policies and this time on efforts to reduce global warming. it comes in the form of fuel emissions. white house officials released a new proposal for 2021 to 2026 to freeze fuel efficiency standards that were a crucial pot of his predecessor s policy on climate change. first, it freezes the increase of average fuel economy standards after 2021 at about 37 miles per gallon instead of raising it to 50. it also revokes a federal waiver for california under the 1970 clean air act, allowing states to set pollution standards that are tougher than the federal government s. the environmental protection agency and national highway
environmental civil war in this country. california governor jerry brown says he will everything to fight what he called this stupidity on every level, because along with rolling back the fuel efficiency standards, the administration also wants to revoke california s waiver to regulate its own pollution standards, its own tailpipe standards. california has set the bar for the country for decades now on that issue. and 19 attorneys general and the attorney general of washington, d.c. have said they re going to file a lawsuit against the administration to stop the rollback of these standards, because they say the country needs to do more to protect the nation from the impact of climate change. just to put an exclamation point on this, we both remember when los angeles was always covered in smog. right. the change in the air quality in california over the last decade or so has been really
and on the environmental front, today the trump administration officially announced plans to unravel one of president obama s signature policies. the epa s proposal would keep lower fuel emission standards than what obama set out to do. it would revoke a legal waiver that has allowed states to set their own tougher pollution standards like california. and finally, the trump administration took another whack at dismantling obamacare. plans cover less than an alternative to obamacare starting in october. that s the latest move that will drive up obamacare costs and undercut the program. the individual mandate was eliminated, funding cut for services that helped people sign up, and other funds were spent on social media pr campaign aimed at undermining public support for the law. now nbc has learned four cities are taking the president to court over his blatant effort to make good on his promise to,