Law, government power and cutvidual ready, and also individual liberty, and also conservation. To discuss, i am pleased to be joined by administrator wheeler. We will offer some opening remarks and then i will have some questions. Too, as youwest and can see on our event page and our youtube page. Ask questions on twitter at hashtag aeicleanairandwater. First, some opening remarks. Administrator wheeler, welcome. Admin. Wheeler thank you, adam, for that great introduction. I fort to thank ae inviting me to be here today. Earlier this month, i provided reflections on the last 50 years of the Environmental Protection agency and laid out our plan for its future at the nixon library. Today, i would like to explain, based on what we have accomplished over the past four years, how we are going to get to this future. It is incontrovertible that today the environment is in better shape under President Trump than we found it. Since 2017, air pollution in this country has fallen 7 . Last year, e
Remarks and then i will ask questions. You can submit questions as well. But first your opening remarks. Welcome. Thank you for the introduction but i want to welcome aei for inviting me to be here today earlier this month i have reflections on the last 50 years of the epa and laid out our plan for its future at the Nixon Library. Today i would like to explain based on what we have accomplished over the past four years how we will get to this future. It is incontrovertible today the environment is in better shape under President Trump and we found it. Since 2017 air pollution in this country has fallen 7 percent. Last year superfund sites the most in a single year since 2001 and b will list another 27 this year the epa is trying to finance more than 40 billion of clean Water Infrastructure supporting 7100 projects and 27000 jobs during President Trumps first term and they have recovered more criminal and civil appointees them the Obama Biden Administration did and their first term. The
Of the sea. Because im front of me is the port where those 2700 tons of Ammonium Nitrate exploded last tuesday to every Apartment Building shattered or destroyed in that building in the 12 its right on the lawns all the way along the waterfront and inland a 3 kilometer radius from the port cleanup operation still ongoing of course its going to be years long but most of that cleaning up being done by volunteers and theyve been out in force again this morning the government the local government now estimates 70000 homes have either been damaged or destroyed as a consequence of that explosion and we already know about 250 and maybe as many as 300000 people have been left homeless most of them taken in by relatives elsewhere in the country all being put up in hotels or other peoples friendly helpful neighbors homes russias president Vladimir Putin says the country has become the 1st in the world to approve the use of a Coronavirus Vaccine it follows less than 2 months of human trials the p
Its like social distancing Counter Measures like shutdowns the toll could go fall but modeled the worst Case Scenario of 1500000 to 2200000 deaths so what were going to see and thats weve got to brace ourselves in the next several days to a week or so were going to continue to see things go up we cannot be discouraged by that because the mitigation is actually working and will work. A somber President Trump said the mitigation measures were a matter of life and death i want every american to be prepared for the hard days that lie ahead were going to go through a very tough 2 weeks. And then hopefully as the experts are predicting as i think a lot of us are predicting after having studied it so hard you can start seeing some related the end of the tunnel but this is going to be a very painful very very painful to excess in the city at the epicenter of the pandemic the rate of infection continues to rise the number of hospital admissions in new york city increased by 12 percent in the la
Tested more than any other country by far not even close and tested accurately meanwhile the u. S. Federal reserve has made new unemployment estimates rob reynolds has more on that from los angeles. So theres some pretty bad news from the u. S. Central bank the Federal Reserve saying that 47000000 americans could wind up jobless and the Unemployment Rate could reach as high as 32 percent President Trump said that at the end of this pandemic prices the u. S. Economy will come back the governor of florida says he doesnt want a cruise ship with coronavirus patients on board to dock that 4 people have died and dozens of sick on board these on dime cruise liner its heading towards florida to possibly through the panama canal passengers showing those symptoms were removed and taken to zaandam sister ship the most of them and again i got in miami says that u. S. Authorities may allow the boat to dock elsewhere. Theyve been on this cruise ship since the beginning of the month they began in poi