Beautiful]e dark skies and ruined water, burning rivers, oil spills, spring. Eaches, silent 20 years ago, the wealthiest nation in the world that they had ever known, and people who enjoyed the level of private consumption undreamed of in the past found itself awash in environmental squalor. Comfortable, our children could not play outside because of the smog. Our clothing was clean, but our bays were choked with sewage and our lakes were slowly dying. Swept thehorror nation as we began to realize what we had done to the Natural Systems that supported all life. The environmental and was born movement was born. Governments at all levels responded with programs aimed at controlling pollution. By 1970, it had come obvious that further progress would require a Strong National effort. On december 2, 1970, president Richard Nixon consolidated 15 Environmental Programs from across the federal government to form the United States Environmental Protection agency. Inherit did the new epa respons
On the run, a massive search for this prisoner who escaped from guards in jessu p. Jonathan his name is david watson. He was serving a 100 year sentence. He broke out of a Psychiatric Hospital and has not been seen since. The authorities are releasing pictures of his distinctive tattoos in the hopes that somebody will spot him. Alison tom roussey is live with the search going on in jessup. Accused of is also trying to shoot into Police Officers home in maryland. Guards tooko county into a parking lot, when he got out of the vehicle, he shoved one of them and ran into the woods. Although they have been close to catching him, nothing has panned out. This is video of Howard County police in jessup. Initially he was handcuffed and had a chain around his waist. Somehow he was able to break free. If anybody sees him, they should know right away. He not only has a tattoo on his face but also a distinctive tattoo on his arm and on the back of his neck it says evil. There are some homes within
Im just trying to get to the. Of urgency. In terms of your position, your job, you are the one setting this up. When we are looking through your documents saying there is a potential for a blowout that is why we were there wouldnt it have been prudent to make sure how much water was behind the wall . That is one of the issues, whether we took all the steps that were prudent. Can you understand the frustration, the position frustration, the position you put yourself in as being enforcers, experts in the field, and you are saying this is aa mystery and we are having to look back and see what went wrong . This is my district. I have talked to engineers, minors of work in that area. They would not have proceeded the way that the epa did. Let me save you some time you have zero mining engineers. Our committee has more mining engineers than the epa. Mr. Hardy. Thank you, mr. Chairman. I would like to know how many hydrological engineers you have on your team . I do not know that answer geolo
They act as Emergency Responders with us. The southern ute have been an incredible and incredibly diligent and being embedded in our command center, working on this. The professionalism has been wonderful, so we will make sure they are properly reimbursed for expenses. The 2nd process is the claims process, what damages have it occurred, and we use the federal claims tort act in order to process those claims. How does the federal tort claims act help the navajo . They lost a huge amount of irrigating water which can have longterm devastating effects of drought continues and they do not have the water now or in the future . How can they be made whole . Two things that are happening here as well. We are talking to the navajo about how they get reimbursed. We need to work with the president as well as the Navajo Nation epa to reimbursed for their expenses. The 2nd issue is the claim process. I want to make sure that we are all aware that the reimbursement process is quite different. While
Letter to you on august 15 signed by 29 other members listing out specific questions regarding the spell. When can we expect an answer . You have yet to respond. I will im sorry, when did you say you sent that . August 15. Okay, i will double check and well get you a tentative date no, that will be great. Mr. Westerman, mr. Pearce, youre saying youre going to get back to people, thats the frustration of the committee. We hear well get back to you. Sir, i havent seen it and i dont want to give you a date that i have to explain away. Well, terrific if you can get back to us on that we would appreciate it. In regards to transparency you said that epa was examining different sites that could suffer an epa meltdown as we saw at the gold keaton mine. Youd identified ten different mines now but that did not come forward until such time as there was an a. P. Report. How is that feeding in with transparnsy . Im sorry, i dont exactly know the context in which youre referring. The context of the