That reduction in greenhouse pollution would have the same effect as taking nine hundred fifty thousand cars off the road methane is twenty five times more powerful than Carbon Dioxide as a Greenhouse Gas and about a third of all u. S. Methane emissions are caused by oil and gas operations interior first two attempts to repeal face continued Court Challenges the latest attempt will be subject to a sixty day Comment Period after publication in what is called the federal register where we can all read about it. And stock markets in asia rallied today as some sense of stability returned after last weeks market meltdown while tokyo hong kong and shanghai led a strong advance across asia investors continued to be anxious especially head of key u. S. Inflation data to be released wednesday some of the some of those concerned that such data could spark further volatile market moves almost anything could european stocks have seen a robust recovery also following the worst week in two years bri
Right now we need to get you caught up here and here are the top headlines with vonnie quinn. Vonnie Alexis Tsipras has run up the white flag. Calling for immediate action to a with a bailout. Plus, greece will have to transfer 55 billion worth of assets to a holding company. German chancellor Angela Merkel says it is about time for greece to take responsibility. Angela merkel trust has indeed been lost but we all know that what will the important is to implement what we have agreed on doing. Vonnie tsipras own party mutinied when he asked for the endorsement of a new austerity program. A new deal on the Iran Nuclear Program could be announced as soon as today. Negotiators want to stop iran from making nuclear weapons. Any deal would still have to be reviewed by congress. Senate Majority Leader Mitch Mcconnell told fox an agreement would be a difficult sell. The crowded field for the republican president ial nomination gets bigger today. Scott walker will join the race or he became the
Sooner. In the letter i submitted the National Conference of mayors pointed out that the Clean Air Act required federallysupported transportation activities are consistent with state air quality Implementation Plans and the largest rail hub in the country. According to the center of Regulatory Solutions freight traffic is expected to increase by 80 by 2020. How does epa expect the financially troubled state to implement these standards when the agency has not and will not consider the full potential cost of implementation . If i could just point out, sir, that the Health Standard sets up a process where states develop plans over time and there is significant time to achieve this standard but the majority my time has expired and if you can respond in writing back to these. The vast majority of the counties will be in the amendment as a result of national standards. Thats an important thing to remember. This is not on the backs of the states. It is a partnership between the National Gove
Together for p5 1. And this also shows china wants to play a role though the United States is still the first fiddle. And china is the third one. The second one is the europeans. But we are learning. We are still in internship. To have a digression you have your American University in beirut for more than 100 years. And you have American University in cairo. We even dont have many confucius institutes there. So you can help us for that. The third one is there are emerging, new overlapping interests in cooperation. Like our cooperation against piracy piracy. Navigation safety security. And our cooperation on the chemical weapon issue of syria. Et cetera. So i still believe the United States is the most important factor. But you will change your ways of thinking and practicing. Thank you. You mentioned quartet versus p5 1. Brian spoke insightfully on the fact that the p5 1, if a deal is done, the first question becomes can it hold together in enforcing and supporting a deal . Then anothe
Security issue which has the Great Potential for souring the overall strategic discussion. I think it makes it hard. I think its essential for us to try to explore these ideas, but it becomes more of an academic or think tank exercise and less of a practical exercise if these sorts of perceptions create is much distrust. Last comments before i go out to the audience . Let me go out. We have a lot of hands and we have 10, 12 minutes. Im going to start with the gentleman way back on the left. Yes, you. Yes ill bill jones from executive intelligence review. Id like to just focus on this issue of the one road and one belt. Because it seems to me that the way the u. S. The attitude toward the one road, one belt will determine the course of human history. If it is willing to join this and to work in this, i think were going to have a flourishing of Economic Growth the likes which of we havent seen. We saw at the ufa conference nearly 50 of the World Population has said, we have to move in a