"People Are Going to Die": The Cost of Industry Deregulation by Lobbyists Under Trump

After two deadly crashes, the Senate holds its first hearing on how the Federal Aviation Administration lets the airline industry regulate itself. This comes as the Senate Committee on Energy and Natural Resources will hold confirmation hearings today on Trump's nominee to head the Interior Department, David Bernhardt, a former oil lobbyist. Meanwhile, a federal jury in California has just ordered Monsanto to pay over $80 million to a cancer survivor whose illness was found to have been partly caused by the herbicide Roundup. "When we see these regulatory issues, they're often abstract, and people maybe don't pay attention to them," says Robert Weissman, president of Public Citizen. "What they fail to realize is that, actually, failed regulation means people are going to die."