In which he outlined his Climate Action plan. So i was reading a legal opinion recently and it said a president s speech is certainly not a matter of law but the president making these International Agreements has through regulation pursued his commitments that he is making. But other countries that are part of these agreements are not doing the same thing so the u. S. Is being penalized because of these extreme actions. So what you all are doing, and im reading from a legal opinion that mr. Tribe wrote, you are forcing a select set of victims including consumers communities regions, businesses and utilities to bear a substantial part of what is a global problem that even you and your predecessor indicated that these regulations were not solved so you are asking for 425 million more dollars than last year. A lot of that money is going to go to hire additional lawyers to defend them litigate these extreme regulations so we look forward to the opportunity today in exploring this situatio
Priority for me is the issue of Environmental Justice and making sure the states are providing adequate direction in order to achieve the interest of local income and minority communities. In cases where safe may not be sure how to conduct Environmental Justice analysis or how to define an Environmental Justice community then i believe that it would be very helpful if the epa provided states with guidance Technical Assistance and resources to help protect the most vulnerable communities that have the least amount of influence to help themselves. Can you speak to this issue and assure me that the epa is listening and working with the Environmental Justice groups as the agencies prepares to finalize the rule and two the agencies will provide states with guidance data, tools and resources to help identify and protect these communities i can assure you of that,ranking member and point out the Environmental Justice budget is given an increase this year which will go a long way to provide th
And we are counting on countries in the region to take some responsibility for fighting isil and whether that is training local fighters, we know that there are some countries in the region that have committed to host Training Programs for members of the moderate Syrian Opposition so that they can be trained and equipped by our Coalition Partners so that they can take the fight to isil on the ground in their own country and we certainly would welcome those kinds of contributions to this broader effort. Thanks, everybody. The Supreme Court is set to hear the oral arguments in king v. Burwell, a case challenging the federal subsidies for the purchase of health care through the Affordable Care act. On the next washington journal, jess bravin of the wall street journal is here to talk about the case and the potential outcome. Then more about the Affordable Care act and subsidies with Mary Agnes Carey of Kaiser Health news. Washington journal is live every morning and you can join the conve
That good afternoon id like to call the order of regular meeting of San Francisco Public Utilities commission tuesday, april 14, 2015 roll call please. Commissioner president caen commissioner vietor commissioner courtney commissioner moran and we have quorum. Thank you, commissioners before you you have the minutes of march 24th 2015 any corrections or additions. Ill move approval. Second. All in favor, say i. I opposed the motion carries and im not calling for Public Comment so i dont have to put any money in the jar now id like to call for Public Comment for those items that are not on todays agenda i dont have any speaker cards seeing none, next item. Item 57 communications. Yes. Commissioner. Thank you on the advanced calendar several items the commissioners asked for information from the staff this have been there no notice as to what the status is not a delivery date and nothing you up a summary in the process let me ask staff for a report a memo that should be sufficient basica
You or i can use the best practices for reduction weve started the identification for the pair program were doing it in two ways from the ami data and another in the system we use devices to find leaks throughout our Distribution System and targeted around june 1st weve talked about at the next meeting but the detection front if you have a meter and gotten one in the mail the information you may have a leak we suggest you read it carefully and look at the automatic data for 3 days the consumption does go to zero this is a leak it is a continuance consumption nobody leaves water running all the time so that is probable a leak weve been sending them out to computers and you should do something on your side of the meter so in summary the snowpack is pathetic theres no snow up there and needless that is a dry year we anticipate hetch hetchy will be around 80 percent i saw maybe 78 percent weve been doing this and well issue the estimate to the wholesales customers but the system with the a