Teen drivers due to distracted driving. You are for sale. Radioshack selling private information to the highest bidder. All that and more coming up on willis report where consumers are our business gerri we had a big, big selloff today in the markets. Well tell you more about that later in the show. First a showdown at the Supreme Court. The Environmental Protection agency is pushing the obama administrations green agenda for years. Some complaining agency is over reaching its mandate but now that power is being challenged in court. Peter barnes has details. Peter . Hey, gerri. The epa and electric utilities have been fighting over tougher pollution rules for power plant, the majority coalfired for 25 years. The battle at the Supreme Court now comes down to one word, appropriate. Can clean air Laws Congress passed in 1990 said epa could regulate plant emissions if it studied them and found now rules, prepare and necessary. In 2000 it did just that, targeting mercury emissions specifically. Then the epa and industry battled more. They were in and out of court until finally the epa issued new revised rules in 2012, but when it did it did not include a cost analysis as part of it is formal assessment. Power Companies Say it was required to do so by any reading of the law, that would be appropriate. But epa said it did not have to do one of those because congress did not specifically require one. All it required was a determination that emissions posed a hazard to Public Health which it said they do. But turns out some epa the epa did do some cost benefit studies along the way outside of formal rule making. It estimated the new rules would cost the industry 9. 6 billion a year. And estimated value of curbing mercury emissions only at 4 to 6 million. But then it said the broader benefits in limiting all emission with the new technology, would be valued at 37 billion to 90 billion including stopping 11,000 premature death as year. The industry says the low estimate on mercury proves the rules are an overreach. The government says it doesnt matter what any cost benefit Analysis Shows because the only thing that matters is protecting Public Health. Gerri . Gerri any signs how those justices are going to decide . Well the questions and comments broke down along idealogical lines today. The conservative majority signaled it was hostile towards the epas approach. And, we kind of would include Justice Anthony kennedy the key swing vote in that bloc based on his questions. The courts four liberal appointees appeared to suggest support the epas rationale for new regulations. Gerri . Gerri peter, thank you for that. You bet. Gerri will the Supreme Court finally put an end to the epa overreach . Here to weigh in guy benson Political Editor for town hall and fox news contributor. Always great to have you on the show. Set aside cost benefit for just a second. The epa is saying the countrys power plants are belching mercury arsenic acid into the air at alarming rate. Are they right . Look im not an expert and they would hold themselves out as expert as an that question. I think most americans would agree we want the air that we breathe to be clean. But you know what else we want, gerri . We want jobs to stay in this country. We want people to be employed and we want affordable energy. And it is a balancing act. So the fact that the epa and the government did exactly what you just said not just because you posed a question a hypothetical question setting aside the cost question. I dont know how you can do that, when youre actually making policy. Gerri lets get to those numbers. Peter just actually debriefed them. When you see a 9. 6 billion cost, and the epas estimates of the range of benefits are massive. It could be anywhere from 4 million, to 90 billion. Come on. Gerri i got it tell you, i dont trust these numbers. That is such a broad range but what is true this will cost businesses and therefore consumers billions of upon billions of dollars. Gerri lets dig into this for just a second because theyre saying Something Like prevention of 11,000 deaths. Really . Do you know that . How do you figure that out . What kind of math youve done . You come in lay the numbers in front of a judge, hopes he believe it . You tell the public are you for death . Do you want children to die . Gerri emotional argument. Very emotional argument. The fact peoples jobs depend on this. Peoples energy bills will be impacted by this you simply can not separate the cost of something weve talked about this before, it is old adage, the power to regulate is the power to destroy. We are seeing that and thats why this industry is pushing back hard against the administration. Gerri i want you to look at geeinggraphy the plants at risk here and could close geography. 600 plants in the south and upper midwest. I wonder how those people vote . I wonder. It is interesting because i am glad you brought up politics of this. Weve seen the administration punishing idealogical adversaries using the government, the tentacles of bureaucracy on numerous occasions whether irs or operation choke point. This another one, American PeopleRepublican Party campaigned hard against the war on coal and war on energy across the south and in particular and midwest and they have won. The veriers have spoken. What has the administration done . As they so often do, they have said, screw that. Forget congress. Gerri do what we want. Do what we want. Lets see who can stop us only answer might be the courts. Gerri Mitch Mcconnell is on a campaign to stop all that. Coal miners granddaughter i am, i like hearing him talk. Thanks so much guy. Always food to have you. Thank you, gerri. Gerri one thing the epa doesnt seem to be too concerned about, the company lumber liquidators. Consumer Products Safety Commission confirming today it is investigating the companys chinamade laminate flooring which some say contains Dangerous Levels of formaldehyde. With more on this, attorney adam thompson. Adam, great to have you on the show. Okay here is what i find so interesting about this, you tell me what you make of it. We have consumer Products Safety Commission, a small agency a couple of hundred of Million Dollar budget. This will be a massive project for them. They dont even have the inhouse personnel to do it. They have go to outsource it. Meanwhile epa significant around, hundreds of billions of dollars it has to spend, it is not playing. What do you make of that . Why is it that this small tiny agency is playing this role . And epa is moving right on down the line . That is a very good question. Would you think that the entity with the larger budget and resources would be overseeing this process . But it isnt. In the big picture, i dont really think it matters who does the investigation or who looks into it. As long as they use the top expert who is know what theyre doing to investigate this case, to determine if the laminate floors do pose a safety risk to the public. Then, as long as we get that answer i really think all that matters. Gerri the way they will do, they will ignore what is californias method of testing. What they will do, is test flooring as consumers would use it. Which is to say, theyre not going to slice it into layers and test the formaldehyde that way. A lot of people are dismissing this concern. They think it is silly. They think cbs has it all wrong. Do you think we need to know the real story from cpsc or are you happy to move on and not Pay Attention to the results . No i think this is important enough to get the right answers. The test that 60 minutes did in their piece may be off because they removed a top layer off the laminate flooring. Gerri but lets be clear about that, my friend. This is the very testicle fornash uses. And i think that is why they did it that way. Talk for you by understand that, in the ordinary daily use of this type of product many in industry say that was not an accurate way to get the result. Gerri i heard that. They need to test it differently. Should it be tested one way or another . After a while walking on the floor the top layer may peel back an be off which will expose that layer of dangerous chemical. If that the is potential what could happen, then they should do a test in both ways in my opinion to get a real proper result because you dont want your kids crawling on the floor, playing on the floor and get exposure to that and then get an illness. Gerri adam, thank you. 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Crony capitalism between google and white house. Wall street journal reporting that google executives averaging one meeting a week with the white house, during a federal antitrust investigation. Plus federal workers owe billions in unpaid taxes. Some of these delinquent workers are ones collecting your taxes. Here with his take on the news, wayne rogers, chairman of wayne rogers and company. Welcome back to the show. Thank you, gerri. Gerri are you troubled by all these meetings between google and the white house . Do you see this as crony capitalism . Im always troubled by anybody who is visiting the white house as often as once a week. When you say somebody visiting the white house, for example you got the reverend al sharpton. I think he registered being at the white house 75 times so far this, in the past year. What are they doing . And to whom are they talking . And why do they need to be there . It is never explained. Gerri let me tell you what was going on, my friend. The federal trade commission looking into antitrust lawsuits against google at one point. All of sudden out of the blue here comes google visiting once a week. Once more theyre advising on the obamacare website, some free advice just how to get that thing rolling. Do you think that stopped that investigation in its tracks . I certainly influenced it. I think all these things have to do with undue influence on political, on the political life of our candidates. So we have gotten immune this country to what goes on like that. It is embarrassing. People meet all the time with higherups in agencies to relief relieve the pressure on them. They influence some. Are they taking bribes, in some form or fashion . Yes. Because an ordinary citizen cant do the same thing. Gerri well, it is friends and family right . Like people i know, you know. We have to help them out. Here are our friends. Here is what the wall street journal reported today, officials at the ftc concluded that in 2012 google used anticompetitive tactics and abused monopoly power that influenced rivals. They brought a lawsuit challengings three google practices. On january 3rd, voted to close the investigation. It is all over never mind. Well stop looking. All after google giving tons of money. In fact the contributions from google employees, second only to microsoft. Well, gerri, we know all of that. The problem is, nobody is willing to do anything about it. We know that the government, Government Employees are susceptible to this all the time. We know that. There is no Competition Among an agency. In other words, the system itself is corrupted. You cant ask, for example, you have an agency supposed to overlook somebody. I dont care who it is, in this case we were talking about google. But the agency that overlooks them, people who are involved in administrating that, are people who are supposed to be regulating. You cant have the same people doing that. There is no, there is no way that is fair system. And in addition to which you know in the federal government, or any government whether federal, local or state, there is no competition for the job. In other words there is a regulatory agency. They are assigned to take care of overlooking and making sure that these people Pay Attention to whatever the regulations are. There is no incentive. There is no incentive for them to do their job properly. Gerri there is not. What incentive is there . In private sector there is incentive. Gerri there is no incentive for them to pay their taxes. Did you see the numbers. Nine million federal workers. I know. Gerri 3. 5, trillions, 3. 5 trillion. Unpaid taxes. These people dont pay their taxes. They work for the government. The government pays them. The government is the source of their wage, weekly salary. Yet they dont pay their taxes. What do you make of that . Well we are, we, the people are paying the government is administrating that. Youve got to a person head of the irs, lois lerner who defied congress, takes the fifth amendment. Does not explain her lost emails. You have got people in there who essentially just corrupt. The government is a corrupt, all of these agencies are corrupt. We the people dont do anything about it. Through our representatives in congress, if you will forgive me who are part of the system. You know. Well, you know, the House Oversight committee is considering a bill that will penalize workers for not paying their taxes. Hmmm. Gee what a great idea. Why did it take 200 years to get there . Not only did they take 200 years to get there what makes it so sure it will work anyway . Gerri good point. They dont do follow bills in first place. Person laughs at them. Lois lerner was laughing at the Committee Investigating her essentially saying youre not going to find out anything. Hillary clinton has done the same thing about benghazi. You know, you just, if you cant cover it up you obfuscate it giving them 35,000 pages of nothing. And it takes that long to get through it. The system is, the system is broken. The system is broken. Unless we return it to the people, were finished. I knew we would get back to Hillary Clinton at some point. Wayne, good to see you. Thanks for coming on. My pleasure. Thank you. When we come back, investigators in the french alps, desperate for any explanation as to what caused a germanwings plane to crash. Well have latest on that. Next, more issues with teen drivers, as a new report just how distracted they can be. How deadly that is. Well have details to get your reaction. You cant predict the market. But at t. Rowe price weve helped guide our clients through good times and bad. 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