Manslaughter due to a deadly wildfire ignited by their electric grid. She also talks about electric grid capacity and building climate resilient infrastructure. This is hosted by the Stanford Graduate School of business. Business. Applaud. Thank thank you so it cae my pleasure to introduce the person youre actually here too see, who is Patricia Poppe whose last get speak the entire event. So patty is ceo of pacific gas and Electric Company who is a largest Utility Companies in the united states. They have about 20,000 employees. Employees. They supply natural gas and electricity to about 16 Million People in northern and central california. That those of you who are familiar with pge hear a lot of pge in the news. Those of you who are listening with pg e should know that its a publicly traded company that assays a lot of challenges in recent years. In 2010 thatrs was a a gas line explosion in san bruno california. 2017 and 2018 were major fires including the campfire that basically spa
To ask questions. Without objective, thats so ordered. Can would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. Its going to focus obviously on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And the committee is holding a host of hearings to gather ideas on what congress can do to achieve this goal. And today, were going to hear ideas from our highways and transit stakeholders. Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. That we use to again surface transportation policy. Its valuable in our efforts to pass the act, which was the first longterm highway bill in a decade, and were going to continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations surface Transportation System still needs additional investments. Enacting a long Term Solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to insuring we can address those needs long into the future. Since passage of the f. A. S. T. Act, building a con
It is 7 30 am. I am phil matier. I am alyssa came. It is hot and some areas unbearable. Yesterday pleasanton hit 105, san jose 107, ocean beach 92. A look at the breaking heat. A recordbreaking weekend. Temperatures reaching 102 degrees. The previous record 94 set in 1991 for that day. 32 degrees hotter than average. Overnight usually we get that relief with the cooler air and not so much. We reached 75 overnight for the low. Another recordbreaker in san jose at 107, concorde 110, oakland 101. A lot of you felt it and it was uncomfortable and here is a sign that there is some relief in sight. Were counting on this flag to blow to the west because it means we will get the onshore flow and were getting clouds working in so that will cool things down. Concorde 75 right now. Oakland 70. Live in more 76. San francisco 75. Things will warm up inland. The break will be along the coast. Temperatures will cool 50 degrees compared to what we got yesterday along the bay as well. A different tempe
Well call the Sub Committee to order and like to ask that members who are not on the Sub Committee be permed to sit with Sub Committee of todays hearings to ask questions. With that objection that is still ordered i would like to welcome everybody to the hearing today. It is going to focus , obviously, on how we can build the 21st century infrastructure. And a committee that is holding a host of hearings toth gaer idea on what congress can do to achieve this goal and today were going to hear ideas from highways and transit stake holders. Gathering input from stake holders is essential to the process, an that we use to develop Service Transportation policy. And it is valuable in efforts to pass the first longterm highway bilge in a decade and continue to need your assistance with future legislation. Even though with Additional Resources we provided nation Service Transportation system needs additional investment. Enacting longterm solution is a critical component to ensuring that we can
Gathering input from our stakeholders is essential to the process. It was vital to pass the first longterm highway bill and a continue to we will need your assistance with teacher legislation. Even with the Additional Resources we provided, the nations Transportation System still needs additional investments. And acting a longterm solution for the Highway Trust Fund is a critical component to ensure address those needs into the future. Act, hasn the fast been a central priority of the committee. Funding forderal our nonfederal partners is vital to planning and Building Infrastructure for the 21st century. And is a bipartisan issue look forward to working constructively with my colleagues on both sides of the aisle to ensure we are going to achieve this goal. Modern infrastructure means a Strong America and an america that competes globally and creates jobs. Of our like to thank all witnesses for being here today and i look forward to the testimony. I will turn to the Ranking Member for