environmental protection

Ben Grumbles, Assistant Administrator for Water, Environmental Protection Agency, is interviewed about the linkages between energy, water and climate change. That includes, particularly, a regulation EPA has proposed aimed at protecting drinking water around the areas where carbon dioxide would be stored underground through future carbon sequestration technology.

George Bush has declared he is exempting the US Navy from laws prohibiting the use of sonar in its training off Southern California. But many environmental education groups and marine mammal experts like Yvonne Miles of Scanning Ocean Sectors think this move could be a very dangerous mistake.

Stephen Johnson, Administrator, Environmental Protection Agency, says EPA does not have to regulate CO2 and adds that his California vehicle emissions waiver decision may be deferred to 2008. He also discusses the issue of expansion of US refineries. Moderated by Grant Stockdale.