Capitol hill studio by the Deputy Editor of the provincial energy news from the coal industry is in the United States what are the main types of coal mined in the United States . You to go from black to brown song that is mined in eastern pennsylvania is the not as much now. And then that type that is used for power plants than the type that is more brown and has less ability to produce energy but it is used in north dakota lot so that ranges to their different based and what part of the country. You talk about their ranges of coal talk about the mines. A lot of people assume all coal mines are power plants. But there are a lot of minds and there is the big marketlants for our metallurgical coal you estimate coal and steel and iron. A lot of the exports of overseas are for that metallurgical coal. It is and the power plant regulations but how much countries are developing and how much steel bidi to build there is speculation is our today our guest this morning should note that as we ta
Mines are for that etal how much countries are developing how much steel we need to make buildings. Host Manuel Quinones is our first guest this morning. Special phone lines today. We want to hear your comments coal miners and family members of coal miners, 2027488001. Otherwise, lines are split up regionally. ,entral and eastern time zones 2027488000. Mountain pacific time zones, 2027488002. Lets talk about the power plants themselves. Where will you find coal power plants in the United States . Guest they are all over the country. You have a lot of coalfired power plants in ohio and indiana and missouri. Western states, youve got Southern States it really runs the gamut. If you look at the ohio valley area, an area that has been historically coal heavy because it is easy to transport, you have rivers and rail and a lot of mines nearby, but really, it is distributed across the country. Theres a lot of states that have tried to move away from coal. A lot of states have been moving away
On the tracks, including the third rail, drain cleaning, replacing insulators and third rail covers. Many of these are part of the system we have seen and talked about with the recent problems including that recent arcing insulator last week at Federal Center southwest. And a series of red line issues that prompted a lot of maintenance called for by general manager paul wiedefeld. The f. T. A. Says between april 23 and may 10 it investigated 15 safety events including nine with fire and smoke along metro. Now this comes at this hour as we are dealing with another problem outside of the stadiumarmory station. We arches that single tracking is impact we understand that single tracking is impacting riders on stretches of the system as a result of that. From a possible arcing insulator we understand crews are now responding to, to investigate. We have a crew sent to that as well. We reached out to metro on both issues. Well have more at reporting live, Brianne Carter, abc7 news. Jonathan t
My name is Sabrina Fernandez business representative and ibew local secured im here to support the nomination of joel koppel for the Planning Commission. I want to also want to express my gratitude to the mayor for putting his name forth. I hope that you three will take his name forward to the full board. Theres been a lot of interesting and thoughtful comments today about joel and i think the welldeserved. Budgets from three gem proceeded me here at the podium but from all of you in terms your understanding of what the city needs in terms of if your commission. I think joel will round out the commission. Im going to share with you couple of things about joel probably others will not share. I worked in working with him very closely. In fact his office is next to mine at the local union. He is very dedicated hardworking individual. He goes the extra mile. As he said, he knows the hours and responsibilities that it is to be an effective Planning Commissioner. I will testify here for supe
The city of San Francisco sfgov tv meeting of the rules committee occurring thursday, september 8, 2016 we will begin shortly. [gavel] hello good morning everyone and welcome to our exciting rules Committee Meeting of thursday, september 8, 2016. Im Grady Katie Tang chairman of the committee and to my left is cohen. Mar will be joining us shortly. From sfgov tv would like to thank charles kremenak. We have any announcements speed tends thank you. Thanks. Please sounds all cell phones [reading ordinance] at this time i think oregon about skip over item 1. If we can go on to item 2 item number two, [reading ordinance] so, this is one of the i guess routine appointments to the reentry counsel and am happy to support supervisor avalos on the. See no other questions or comments on open item number two to Public Comment. Seeing none, Public Comment is closed. [gavel] we will do that without objection [gavel] lets call item 35 together item 35 [reading ordinance] great, thank you. So, at this