'BradCast' 11/12/2019 (Guest: Dr. Andrew Rosenberg of the Union of Concerned Scientists)

On today's 'BradCast': While the nation's attention is understandably focused on impeachment, the Trump Administration is continuing its non-stop corruption of government in service to corporate interests. The Trump Environmental Protection Agency's latest scheme is an attempt to undermine scientific research to allow more toxic industry pollution of our air and water, via a proposed rule that would limit the use of science that the agency is allowed to use as its basis for writing public health standards. DR. ANDREW ROSENBERG, Director of the Center for Science and Democracy at the Union of Concerned Scientists, warns that the new proposed rule would "devastate public health and environmental protections" by disallowing the use of public health studies unless all data – including confidential patient names and medical records – are made public. It would apply not only to new rules but also to retroactively to longstanding existing regulations, as well. Industry groups, of course, favor the new rule. Scientists and health care providers are strongly opposed, charging that the scheme will undermine public health protections and "put the entire enterprise of developing science-based public health safeguards at risk," by binding future administrations. Also today: Former Pres. Jimmy Carter is reportedly recuperating after brain surgery. The Republicans' stolen US Supreme Court will allow a liability lawsuit brought by families of the victims of the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre against a gun manufacturer to go forward, but court watchers suggest that the Court's stolen rightwing majority is poised to strike down President Obama's Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program. On the eve of public hearings in the 4th impeachment inquiry in U.S. history, House Democrats have released procedural details for how the hearings will be conducted. Plus Desi Doyen has our 1000th 'Green News Report'...