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To thank you for joining us this afternoon. I will introduce david and he will introduce the other panelists. Im not afraid to say i consider columnistseminent affairs in the country. Also, i commend if you want to get a understanding of the middle east, read the novels. They are very understanding of the subtle and byzantine trends. Oing on in the middle east david will go ahead and. Ntroduce the other panelists thank you all for coming back after your coffee break. This is kind of the conspiracy of old friends. College orgo back to we begin as journalists together at the hartford crimson in addition to being outstanding journalists with time and newsweek. It is annow inside theort to get extraordinary difficult personality and evan is going to the coldn historian of issuesnking about the the book being nix on. Is absolutely extraordinary. Evan will discuss a historian of the cold war. Thinking about the issues that underlie the reading list would begin i will save more discussion abo
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
And my colleagues and i look forward to hearing your comments. I am going to wrap up by doing something i should have done at the beginning and i apologize for delaying. I know you were thinking you were listening to a nameless bureaucrat, but i am Joseph Goffman and counsel member for air and radiation. And now i will turn it over to john millet. Thank you. Good morning, everybody. And thanks again for joining us. Before i turn over to you, i want to walk through there part of the Clean Air Acting the epa will be using to reduce the pollution from the coal power plants. As we listen to your ideas and approaches, we will be thinking about how they fit under this section of the law. President obama has directed the epa to issue a proposal by june of 2014 and take final action by 2015. Greenhouse gases are air pollutants at are subject to regulation under the Clean Air Act. We have the authority under section 111 of that law and it sets out separate approaches to addressing new sources o
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