As a result, many states including West Virginia and oklahoma whose attorneys general we will be hearing from today, have raised grave concerns about the legality of the rule and implications for their citizens and ratepayers. In addition to constitutional and legal questions states have expressed concerns about the feasibility of the proposed requirements and the likely impacts on electricity cost and reliability. At risk is the belief that states have always had to make the decisions about their electricity generation. West virginia chose to rely on coal to provide affordable and reliable electricity for our consumers and businesses. Other states have made different choices that best serve their citizens. But under the Clean Power Plan each states electricity plan will have to meet epas criteria producing Carbon Dioxide emissions. Other regulations like the utility mact rule is computing to rising electricity rates and growing concerns about reliability. Weve had testimony and other
Wellness and health, there are many slices to the pie. Focusing on the Health Sector alone is not sufficient, one has to think about the economic sector and we talked about this, economy, education, the physical environment, climate. And also remembering social history and how that influences the way the people respond to current challenges. So the u. S. Proposed project under the Arctic Council was called reducing the incidence of suicide in indigenous groups, or rising sun. The context for this was remembering that as ive shown you in the first slides, theres an elevated risk of suicide in these remote rural arctic communities. We also are talking about communities with considerable Cultural Diversity and often very small populations. So the standard approaches that researchers tend to use to evaluate the efficacy and effectiveness of interventions is quite challenging. What might be a way to get around some of those things . There are also important assumptions and those are that ef
All the elements of russian power, the dime concept i think were all familiar with as an acronym, in order to bring about that restoration and preservation of his power, and the point of this whole operation, therefore is not to achieve some final state but to develop these tools as you have called them, instruments of power, others would say. In order to keep the game going because that is how russia sees the world as being in any case. And second, this is the the only way that it can maximize what is the condition of its great power and the regime at home that is a fully independent, sovereign great power, which is what it says it is and wants to be recognized as. But that doesnt have to answer to anybody either at home or abroad. And thats the strategic objective. I think that things thus become much more clear to the analysts, and i think theyll become clearer to you and you can overcome the clim ma of whether hes a tactician or a strategist. The tactics serve the objective and the
But perhaps even more important is that i think we have an obligation to do that. I dont think we can shirk our responsibilities have that kind of strength of economic and military and having the kind of history and representing the kind of values that we do is an obligation on our part to continue to strive to play a leadership role in world affairs. Can we do it alone . No. Absolutely not. Its we dont have that power commensurate to what we talked about. But we should not want to. The various aspects, there is no possible way you will be able to deal with them except in partnership with other countries. We are entering into an era of mutuality an era of interdependence and i think if he does to take this new era very seriously and crew responsibility. I am confident really that under the circumstances we face today and provided that we continue to keep perfecting our own society and work closely with her friends around the world that we can continue to play the kind of strong leaders
Land use Economic Development committee im scott wiener the chairman of the committee to my left is supervisor cowen and supervisor jane kim will be joining us momentary our clerk is andrea i want to thank sfgovtv for broadcasting the hearing. We do have overflow seating in room 250 dillon across the hall to folks who have to go into the offer flow please submit Public Comment cards so i can bring you into this room to make Public Comment at the appropriate time theres the yellow cards and indicate the item for which you wish to testify. So madam clerk, call item number one and two together ill read announcements first. Please be advised the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and similar soundproducing Electronic Devices are prohibited at this meeting. Please be advised that the chair may order the removal from the meeting room responsible for the ringing or use of a cell phone, pager, or other similar soundproducing Electronic Devices. Please call items 125e. This is the the st