Aggressive climate regulations last month, and in a moment of candor, they said, politically, the white house is hesitant to say they are having a war on coal. On the other hand, a war on coal is exactly whats needed. What is the administration doing . Is it much more important nan what they are saying . Saying one thing and do another . Consider this list of the recent carbon regulations, and they talked about it on new coal power plants, carbon regulations on existing coal power plants, utility mact, mact, with Compliance Costs of 10 billion with a b, and best available control technology, rules for Greenhouse Gas emissions, particular matter of regulations, section 3316b a rule concerning water intake, and the list goes on and on and on, and affluent limit regulations costing between 2 00 and 900 million a year, and new epa regional haze requirements, new epa monitoring excuse me, mountain top mining rules, department of interior stream buffer zone regulations, and forthcoming o zon
Next, a discussion on the Obama Administrations economic policies and their effect on certain sectors of the u. S. Economy. From this mornings washington journal, this is an hour and a half. One of our guests. Also joined by heidi, an economist at the Economic Policy institute, or epi, and joining us from George Mason University where she is a Senior Research fellow. Wanted to get your perspective on the economic president obama at a florida port vowed to speed shipping and transit projects, talking how the thinks he can boost the economy. What is the state of the economy now . How would you judge the economy to date . I think its too weak. Weve been out of the recession for four years. I think the best way to describe it is the labor market is stuck in the mud. The Unemployment Rate, which is a share of the population that is employed, has been almost flat, and very low. As unemployment has gone down, thats a because a lot of people have given up and Economic Growth is not as strong a
By the Heritage Foundation in washington d. C. Join me in welcoming William Perry pendley, author of sagebrush rebel. [applause] when it came to energy, Natural Resources and the environment reagan knew exactly what he wanted to do. Of course he had been governor of california and like the other ten western states california is a federal lands state. The government jones a third of the nation, most of that in the American West and california like colorado, half of it was owned by the federal government so Ronald Reagan as governor of california, not just when it was sovereign but also when it was a land owner in many cases of bad neighbor. So he had to have experience, he knew the agency, the park service, the fish and Wildlife Service and the Forest Service and the department of agriculture and the bureau reclamation, he had experience with those agencies firsthand and he brought that knowledge with him in the years ahead. Something phenomenal about reagan was he had a photographic me
Outbreak where its really happening, thats in west africa. As we speak, president obama is receiving an update from his National Security team and public girls on the growing Ebola Outbreak. The meeting happens as spains Public Health Ministry Reports that a spanish nurse has contracted the illness, becoming the first person to contract it outside of africa. And it is coming as american officials are weighing whether to institute extra screening of travelers from ebolastricken countries. According to anthony fauci, all options are being looked at, the question is whether the extra level of screening is worth the resources you need to put into it. But members of the Republican Party apparently already have the answer to that question. Washington needs to take immediate steps to minimize the dangers of ebola and other infectious diseases. To begin with, Customs Officials and Border Patrol agents at all points of entry should immediately be directed to conduct enhanced screening procedure
And that shouldnt happen ever again. Not only did people look the other way, but they went after the women who came forward and accused them. Was that fair criticism of hillary that she participated in that effort . Absolutely. I think it is very fair. Brian now is the courage . Linda tripp was at the center of the Monica Lewenski scandal two decades ago. She said these new attacks on the clintons are disenjunous political posturing. Its a dollar late and actually those its a day late and dollar short. Joining us now a guy who never messes up a phrase mark steyn author and columnist and wonderful person. Mark, this is no revelation. This is political opportunity for those on the left to suddenly stand up and act as if theyre above it all. Where were they when it was really took courage to stand up to the clinton dynasty . Yeah. They basically are doing it for political reasons. I mean, basically, this is the clintons chowchesku moment. Time to shuffle them off the roof top into the hel