Last week the independent federal Energy Regulatory commission, even one stuffed with trump appointees, rejected secretary perrys proposed power grid reliability rule to subsidize coal and nuclear plants. The ferc commissioners found that the commission failed to meet clear and legal requirements like that the result will be just and reasonable under the federal power act. As an aside here, the theory of the coal industry was that their units provide more reliability than renewables. Well, tell that to iowas electric grid operators who have baked iowas abundant wind energy not just into their flow but into their reliability modeling. Tell that to new englands i. S. O. Which has allowed renewables into its capacity auctions to be paid for meeting base Load Capacity requirements. And of course tell that to anyone who has had to deal with scheduled and unscheduled outages at coal plants. When i went on one of my climate visits to, in this case, tennessee, i heard about a coal plant that h
What do his neighbors think . Great guy. Great kids. The whole family is misguided right now. I say go, eagles. He says, go minnesota. Across the river, Steven Davidson collingswood home is draped in purple, his fandom passed down from his father. A lot of kids started saying stuff about me. I was like, okay, well see how the game goes. Whats it like being a viking fan amid eaglemania . Im in eagles country. What am i going to do . He plans to watch the game at home. Their predictions . I wont say nothing. I wont say anything because if im wrong, i look like a fool. If the eagles win on sunday, who will they root for . Both say the eagles, reluctantly. Jim, they are nice guys, really. If you say so. The city skyline showing off the support of the birds from the top of the skyscrapers to the west side of the schuylkill and along boathouse road. Peco is superstitious so they wont run the green on the line. Instead of causing a jinx, they are waiting on the underdogs. 6abc is showing off
Shirt. The stadium is ready for 70,000 fans and theyll becken the National Broadcast come sunday night. The city, fans and team are ready for the biggest sports event around here in a long time. Its friday night and the big story is the nfc championship game on sunday and the tristate area is aching for victory. Adam joseph is standing by with the forecast. Jeff chirico has the story from bridesburg with a football family that has their neighbors shaking their heads. The city and Police Get Ready for game time and Ducis Rodgers has the latest on the eagle preparation. Ducis, the eagles practiced inside the link today. What did the players and coach have to say . Players say they are ready. Coach says hes ready. The city is more than ready. We areinside of two days until the birds take on the minnesota vikings. The field has been resodded. Back in the offseason the coach pederson said he felt the team had superbowl potential. I said we had the potential to be a Superbowl Team because of
Khrushchev. And we might save that for a later discussion but i really enjoyed that conversation. Vlad is a professor of International History at the London School of economics, an expert on the cold war and soviet russian history and particularly intellectual history. Among the books is particularly related to our topic of this conference, a failed empire, the soviet union and the cold war from stalin to gorbachev and i also noted among his books zhivagos children and having just watched the movie yet again, i was drawn, of course, to that topic. Jeremi suri is a longtime friend of the Miller Center. We are always happy to welcome him back. As we did recently for an American Forum on his latest book, the impossible presidency which in light of the incumbent might be called the impossible president. But it is called the impossible presidency and it is about whether anyone now can be a successful president. Jeremi is the mac brown distinguished chair for leadership and Global Affairs at
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