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Jackson, Ryan[jackson.ryan@epa.gov]
From: Bloomberg BNA Environment & Energy
Sent: Tue 10/17/2017 11:04:37 AM
Subject: First Move: Californians Choke Over Blazes Pruitt Heads to the Hill Energy Regulator
Speaks Again
Californians Choke Over Blazes Pruitt Heads to the Hill Energy Regulator Speaks Again
By Chuck McCutcheon
How badly u. tlifornia's worst-in-history wildfires hurting air qual - sally badly.
More than 7 million people in the San Francisco area have been exposed to unhealthy levels of air pollution. Of those, 1 million are facing air quality tt would deem extremely unhealthy.
A fire burns near Kenwood, Calif.
Photo by David McNew/Getty Images
And the health effects could linger even after the fires are brought under control,
Jennifer Lu an . w dy n Whetzel report. On ' ' Ire has passed orbeen
extinguished, rising smo
n smoldering embers could remain for as long as a
week.
Neighboring states are assessing whether the pollution will blow their direction. One of them, Oregon, uses satellite and meteorological data to show how traveling smoke affects air quality.
Iowa Republican Sen. Chuck Grassley is well-known for his advocacy of ethanol.
Tods
dministrator Scott Pruitt will see that advocacy firsthand.
Grassley is expected to join several of his colleagues
eeting with Pruitt to
discuss the Renewal:
;l Standard and biofuels. The sit-down follows months of
senators raising concerns that the Trump administration isn't living up to the
presidei
ipalgn commitment to help their states' corn growers and
processors of biofuels.
The lawmakers say t
current proposed rule would mark a step backward
for advanced biofuels by lowering ho\
i should be blended into the nation's
gasoline and diesel. The Renewal
si Standard adds to the cost of refining
petroleum, oil and gas industry officials argue.
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Grassley said last month on the Senate floor that Trump's policy "seems like a baitand-switch. Big Oil and oil refineries are prevailing, despite assurances to the contrary.." Abby Smith will monitor the meeting..
airman is expected to speak today to an energy law conference.. It will be the second time in less than a week that Neil Chatterjee publicly addresses a contentious Energy Department proposal asking FERC to help out the coal and nuclear industries..
That proposal has drawn lots of questions fr
ler Federal Energy Regulatory
Commission members and opposition from oil, natural gas, and other market
sectors competing with coal and nuclear, along with environmental groups.
Chatterjee said last week that he's "sympathetic" to Energy Secret i . A P n
proposal, which aims to prop up coal and nuclear plants in certain competitive
energy markets, but is keen to explor
idle ground..
West Virginia Democrat Sen. Joe Manchin, one of Congress's biggest coal boosters, is among those encouraging Chatterjee and other members to back the department's proposal, while some energy company CEOs came out against it..
acca Kern is watching the developments.
Other Stories W<
wering
Justice Department attorneys will seek to enforce subpoenas
)urt
hearing in Los Angeles seeking Exxon Mobil documents related to an
explosion and another ne; ri sat the comp r " i rance, Calif., refinery.
Carolyn Whetzel will track.
ficials are objecting to the feds' approval of a proposed 7.8-mile
natural gas line.
Pruitt wants to curb ERA settlements with environmentalists.
Quote of the Day
"Dr. Strangelove is alive and lurking somewhere in the corridors of EPA." -- Jeff Ruch, executive director of a watchdog group of government workers and retirees, blasting new agency radiation guidelines that ease off on established safety levels.
Today's Events
l SO a .i ' r I arming Wilson Center forum explores city planning to
address air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions in Los Angeles, Hong
Kong, and Pearl River Delta.
n. Local Regulation American University professor discusses local
regulations to address climate change.
All Da acks in Energy American Association of Blacks r ' i ergy holds
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energy policy summit.
All Day Water and Health Univer
North Carolina's Water Institute
holds conference on drinking water supply, sanitation, hygie
cl water
resources.
All Day I osure Science International Society of Exposure Science
continue
eeting that began Sunday in Research Triangle Park, N.C.
ound the Web
Some Puerto Ricans are using car batteries for power while relying on quickly depleting propane tanks to boil water.
' , viss company has begun extracting carbon dioxid . h n Icelarm ' i and storing it underground, with the expectation that the carbon dioxide turns to stone.
One of Yucca Mountain's biggest critics predicts the government will never find enough money to open the Nevada nuclear-waste burial ground.
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