This hearing is just under three hours. [background noises] with the committee will come to order. You declare recesses of the committee at any time. Opening statements but before my Opening Statement id like to also request unanimous consent to submit chairman lucas Opening Statement for the record might not recognize myself for five minutes for an Opening Statement. I like to welcome everyone to this mornings hearing science and technology the Environmental Protection agency. I am pleased to welcome epa administrator Michael Regan for the very first time in front of the Science Committee. In fact this was the first time any epa administrators testified since 2019 so we certainly have a lot here to discuss. So thank you for coming. While ir appreciate you joining us today have to say her testimony was sent to the committee unacceptably late. Work are witnesses to share the written testimony no less than 48 hours ahead of our hearing. This is not an arbitrary deadline for our members t
This warm and uncomfortable air, i should say, will be rushing in overnight tonight and throughout your thursday. So we had some showers that were scraping the dostline coastline with some rising air near hermine. We had sinking air here with rising air to the west. And weve been delay through much of the day today. And as we head into the evening hours, stays dry for the boss at Citizens Bank park. Stays warm through the 10 00, 11 00 and the upper 70s and again moderately humid, but any of those storms in central p. 568 will remain there and may clip Western Areas as you go through the evening hours. So a heat advisory goes into effect at noon tomorrow, sharrie, in all these areas in orange, which is the majority of our viewing area, its going to feel over 100 degrees tomorrow afternoon. Well talk about recordsetting numbers and when the heat wave breaks in that full accuweather forecast. All right. We look forward to that, adam. Thank you. The hot weather has already put a dent in th
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