wetlands and streams. it s now a lot easier for farmers to plow and plant what they want without worrying about runoff, chemicals, pesticides, fertilizers, and polluters no longer need a permit to discharge potentially harmful substances into waterways. now, this should come as no surprise. after all, this administration has among many other things eliminated many environmental protections. they pulled out of the paris climate accord. they relaxed restrictions on power plant emissions. they opened up public lands and waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. this president sometimes seems like he s living in his own reality, but he knows when he s spinning the facts. today we have the cleanest air. we have the cleanest water that we ve ever had in the history of our country. and just for the press, because they ll get me on that one i m thinking, let s say the history of our country over the last 25
eliminated many environmental protections. they pulled out of the paris climate accord. they relaxed restrictions on power plant emissions. they opened up public lands and waters to offshore oil and gas drilling. this president sometimes seems like he s living in his own reality, but he knows when he s spinning the facts. today we have the cleanest air. we have the cleanest water that we ve ever had in the history of our country. and just for the press, because they ll get me on that one i m thinking, let s say the history of our country over the last 25 years. of course we re going to get you. you re not telling the truth. we don t have the cleanest and now you made it less likely that we will get cleaner. so be on the lookout for changes like this. they re every bit as important. thank you very much for watching. cnn tonight with d. lemon starts right now. it is very important. we all want clean water and clean air and we want a very
come from. this president, we have you said a second ago that 90% of the people who get detained don t show up for their court hearings and justice department data says it s 60 to 70% but i want to ask you a question about climate change. the director of national intelligence, dan coats said that the climate emergency is, quote, likely to fuel competition for resources, economic distress and social discontent. it s a priority for the dni coats. the epa this week however rolled back part of president obama s clean power plan letting states set their own limits for power plant emissions. do you think human induced climate is a threat to the united states? i will tell you that we will always follow the science on that in this administration. the science says it is. what we won t do and the clean power plan was all about that is hamstring energy in this country, raising the cost of utility rates for working families across this country while other nations like china
1,400 americans could die sooner than they should have over the next decade according to the epa. that is just one side effect of a new move by the trump administration to roll back an obama-era plan to limit coal-fired power plant emissions. instead, the epa says that they can states can set their own carbon emission standards, and in comparison president obama s plan was estimated to prevent 3,600 premature deaths, 1,700 heart attacks and 90,000 asthma attacks. trump s epa argues that it also would have jacked up energy costs, hurting low and middle income americans the most. let s bring in democratic presidential candidate john delaney, who is here in the studio with us. you are a proud moderate. you also have sounded the alarm on environmental and climate change issues. how would you balance these competing interests?
[ loud crash ] yeah. he ll figure it out. only pay for what you need. liberty, liberty, liberty, liberty moments ago, a major announcement from the environmental protection agency. the epa deciding to undo an obama-era rule on coal-fired power plant emissions. so the agency now says states can set their own carbon emission standards for the plants. that decision to roll back an obama-era rule comes despite the agency s own finding that doing so could result in more premature deaths. cnn s tom foreman joins us now. tom, this move does help the president fulfill a campaign promise, as we know, to help the coal industry. several states, though, and