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Hurricanes on House's Agenda EPA Avoiding Lab Rats New York's Carbon-Tax Talk
By Chuck McCutcheon
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new point person for Puerto Rico will be among the officials talking to
Congress today about what lessons can be gleaned from the response to this
season's hurricanes.
Pete Lopez, w
ently became administrator for the agency region that includes
Puerto Rico, is among the witnesses set to testify ;
)use committee dealing
with infrastruct
Another panelist at the committee's hearing will be Texas Republic
3. Michael
McCaul, who heads 1
use's homeland security panel. McCaul's committee was
supposed to hold its own hurricane-related hearing this week, but abruptly canceled
it amid disputes w I *< mocrats over an appearance by 11 i yor of San Juan,
who has sharply criticized tl
mp administration's disaster response. David
Schultz is covering.
Military personnel distribute water for residents in Barranquitas, Puerto Rico.
Ricardo Arduengo/AFP/Getty Images
The House Energy and Commerce's energy panel is holding a separate hearing on how to shore up energy infrastructure against hurricanes. That panel will hear from the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and Energy Department in addition to representatives from Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands. jecca Kern is following.
Congre quin I I - ist year to move away from chemical safety tests using
rats, mice, and other lab subjects. Today th
will float its ideas at an all-day
workshop on reducing the ways those animals end up in tests while ensuring the
tests still provide useful information.
The agency's eventual goal is to move towards tests that can potentially help predict whether a chemical could harm- people. Newer kinds of tests can use human cells, and computer models can base their calculations on data about how chemicals move through and out of the body. That data could make the results
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more directly applicable to people--but many uncertainties remain. Pat Rizzuto is tracking.
Backers of a carbon tax in New York state have tried--and failed--for years to get
" i -asure into lai / ; i ' they see some new signs for hoy '.raid Silverman
explains
tory being published later this morning.
Other Stories We're Covering
The House's long-awaited tax bill was supposed to be released yesterday, but
lawmakers now promise it will come out today. Alan Kovski is tracking the
energy provisions.
Energy Secretary Rick Pen rd Maria Cantwell, the top Democrat i I
Senate's energy committee, will discuss their respective energy priorities at a
breakfast today. Rebecca Kern is following.
Cantwell will then join her colleagues on the energy panel to question an array
of Interior Department, Alaska, and other officials about the Republican
proposal to drill for oil h -rtion of Alask ' to die National Wildlife Refuge.
Alan Kovski is watching.
Mainstream climate scientists and skeptics don't see eye-to-eye
:h, but
appear to agree: Tl
rould not be the home for a climate "red team,
blue team" science debate that Administrator Scott Pruitt has been touting.
Abby Smith is monitoring.
Quote of the Day
"We are trying to see if these herbs are relevant for Vietnam." --Shenbagam Manthiram, Tata Power Co. Ltd.'s chief representative in Vietnam, discussing how grasses and other plants could serve as a cooling environment for solar panels.
Today's Events
10 a.m. Climate World Resources Institute unvei
nate-data
platform in webinar.
n. Water House Natural Resources' water panel examines three
water-related bills.
All De
ean Health NASA and World Resources Institute hold
conference on how satellite data can be used for ocean health and fisheries
applications.
All Day Women and Energy Environmental Law Institute offers
symposium on women in the energy and infrastructure fields.
Around the Web
To call attention to water pollution, a Canadian angler put i
koto on
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ebookm h he caught with plastic wrapped around its middle..
Coal producer Armstrong Energy, which operates five Kentucky mines, files for
bankruptcy protection.
Both Democratic and Republic
use committee leaders want answers on
i' ' I de involving the recently canceled electricity contract between
Whitefis
rgy and Puerto Rico's electric power authority.
The EPA h
ched agreement with a New Jersey company over
unregistered and misbranded pesticides.
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