Good afternoon and thank you for coming. My name is siri worthington, executive director of the United States Energy Association and this is a us ea briefing on addressing Energy Poverty in the United States, a federal state collaboration. This is a little bit of a different topic for your sca. But one that we are very eager to have a conversation about and im hoping that this will be the first of a continuing conversation. Because the matters that were going to address this afternoon are taking on a degree of urgency. It always been urgent but i think myself that the urgency is growing so thank you all for coming. We have an excellent set of panelists here today. Or our discussion, we hope to have audience participationas well. Moderating todays session is mark will, mark will provide the discussion and moderate the discussion forthe need for Energy Assistance. He is an economist, and is an expert on local andregional energy and housing financing. He is consulted regularly for general
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Heating in the winter and air conditioning in the summer. Its the least we can do to make sure that they get the benefit that is theyve earned from the career that theyve put in to and the coal Mining Industry and the coal miners protection act very, very important legislation and i was glad to see that we finally got that done. We kept about 22,000 coal miners from losing their Health Benefits. And that was very important. I think we did the right thing. And along with that legislation and another piece of legislation that you supported was the effort to repeal the stream protection rule. Can you explain what that was and your involvement in that effort . Absolutely i can. When i first came to congress in 2011, i became aware of what the interior department, the office of Surface Mining and reclamation, was trying to do with the rule known as the stream protection rule. At this time, it was called the stream buffer zone rule. They changed the name of it so that it would become a polit
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
I love you, you guys love to do because there is so much will it work. So much great work. Tell me about this, why the focus . Megan the political, the economic, demographic, the changes that are happening and when we see entrenchments in the political level, cities are becoming the petri dish for experimentation. We have seen this massive rear reurbanion massive efficacious in massive ication. If of the Biggest Challenges we are confronting, environmentally as well. We want to dive deep, look at Success Stories and places struggling to deal with the change. Oliver i will play devils advocate here, because i think cities, arent they always hotbed, the place where the forward thinking is . Is it more so now as we are do talking about infrastructure with numeral leaders taking the home . Helm . Megan the issue with being a mayor is that you actually have to get things done. If the subway does not work, you will not get reelected. If the infrastructure is not there in the city, you are go