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Progress in Bonn? Energy Regulator's AlmostFull Slate Parks' Visibility
By Chuck McCutcheon
Much of the U.N. climate gathering in Bonn has focused on high-level public gatherings. Behind closed doors, though, negotiators appear to be making headway in at least one area: the international trading of emissions credits.
Talks have begun in earnest on working out rules about how countries can avoid double-counting of emissions credits and ensure transparency, as well as whether the U.N. climate secretariat should oversee the system, Dean Scott reports.
Negotiators say a clear sign of progress in Bonn was an agreement to ha
technical group start drafting the first text of the market-mechanism rulebook. Some
negotiators hope that by spring 20
)re than 190 countries would get to look at
the text.
IM
(onthly meeting today could be the last one it has withoi n I slate.
It's currently got three out of its five members. Incoming Republican Chairman
Kevin McIntyre and Democratic Commissioner Richard Glick are expected to be
sworn in any day now after winning Sens
ifirmation earlier this month.
The independent energy regulator hasn't had five sitting commissioners since
October
t having three commissioners is at least a quorum--something the
agency had lacked for much of this year.
Commissioners, including Chairman Neil Chatterjee, are expected to talk during anc after the meeting about goals for how the agency will act on the Energy Department's contentious grid resiliency proposal. Rebecca Kern is covering.
Federal appeals judges in Washing]' i today will hear arguments u - z ase
involving an Obama-i
e aimed at improving visibility at national parks and
wilderness areas.
At issue is a 2(
jlation that allowed states to use emissions trading
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under the Cross-State Air Pollution Rule to fulfill Clean Air Act requirements under the regional haze program. That program requires power plants to install pollution controls to improve the visibility at parks and other federally protected areas._ Jennifer Lu is covering.
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Drilling in Alaska's Arctic National Wildlife Refuge is now, politically, closer
than ever
it even after the Senate's energy panel approved a
measure that would grant the go-ahead, the bill still faces a test on the Senate
floor as part of tl
uublican tax overhaul.
Th
cial in charge of environmental enforcement will discuss the
Trump administratif
iorities. Renee Schoof is covering.
The National Clean Water Law Seminar wraps up today in Savannah, Ga.,
looking at the clean water sector's legal and regulatory challenges. Among the
topics is t
/riling of a regulation clarifying the Clean Water Act's
geographic reach; an agency official said the EPA "will do our best" to meet its
end-of-2C I ' al to do so. Amer ' ' ,id is covering
Bloomberg's Sustainal " 1 j r limit ends a two-day meeting in London
Ali Qassim is following.
Senate Republicans have been urging President Trump to send them
nominations; the president said he'll nominate two for the Energy Department:
a private equity firm senior adviser for the agency's chief financial officer and a
Nuclear Energy Institute official to head congressional and intergovernmental
affairs.
Quote of the Day
"Don't be lulled into a false sense of safety that it can't or won't happen here."
--Chemical Safety Board Chairwoman Vanessa Sutherland, imploring chemical
facilities
ssess their operations plans and worst-case scenario assumptions in
the wake of recent Gulf Coast disasters.
An Oregon State University bee researcher collects bees in a hive in 2014.
Photographer: Natalie Behring/Getty Images
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One of Trump's nominees for the EPA might be in trouble: Both of North
Carolina's Republican senators say they won't support Michael Dourson to
lead the agency's chemicals office.
New research shows how fungicides, particularly one often found in
bumblebee and honeybee hives, may hurt the bees' health.
Few national issues divide as sharply by education as climate change, an
analysis of opinion polls shows.
More than 60 EPA employees left the agency's Chicago-based Regi
ffice
betwe
mp's inauguration and mid-October.
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Today's Events
9 a.m. Clean Water Act Association of Clean Water Administrators starts
two-day workshop on Clean Water Act variances.
.m. Carbon Emissions Virginia's Air Pollution Control Board meets to
discuss the Clean Energy Virginia carbon-reduction standard.
ient Buildings Alliance to Save Energy sponsors discussion
on grid-interactive efficient buildings.
All Day Law sralist Society's National Lawyers Convention starts three-
day conference on administrative agencies and regulation.
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