Industry is struggling during the coronavirus crisis and one way the Trump administration has responded is by suspending enforcement of some environmental regulations. The EPA made the announcement on Thursday.
Companies are usually required to report when they discharge certain levels of pollution into the air or water. But EPA is now telling them to monitor themselves for an undetermined period of time during the outbreak.
Our guest is Rachel Franzin, energy and environment reporter for The Hill.
Ep. 44: Goodbye Scott Pruitt, Hello Andrew Wheeler
Ep. 43: Could the Endangered Species Act go Extinct?
Ep. 42: Read the Label: Chemical Safety Under the EPA
Ep. 41: The Making of Scott Pruitt
Ep. 40: Pruitt’s Transparency Problem (and it's not his ethics scandals)
Ep. 39: Will He Stay Or Will He Go?
Trump's Next Frontier
Alaska: Open for Business
Ep. 36: One Down, Three to Go.
Ep. 35: Do Regulations Kill Jobs? Or Save Lives?
Ep. 34: Inside the EPA's Regulatory Rollback Machine
Ep. 33: The Crux of Coal
Ep. 32: Who Will Pay for Trump's Plan to Bail Out Coal?
Ep 31: The Incredible Shrinking Monuments
Ep. 30: Meet the Scientist Standing Up to Scott Pruitt
Ep. 29: Living With Oil and Gas
Ep. 28: A Profound Shift in Environmental Protection
Ep. 27: Is Ryan Zinke *really* a 'Teddy Roosevelt Guy'?
Ep 26: Roads, Bridges and the Future of Civilization
Ep. 25: Global Warming: How Bad Could it Be?
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