Season was unprecedented. More named storms in close succession slammed the gulf and the u. S. Virgin islands. These hurricanes caused catastrophic damage in Energy Supply disruptions across the country. Both texas and florida are further down the road to recovery in the humanitarian crisis is unfolding in puerto rico. A number of colleagues from this committee have been down there and the u. S. Virgin islands where the majority of folks still remain without power for more than a month after Hurricane Maria made landfall. Todays hearing will review the response in Energy Recovery efforts in the wake of the storms that will help us begin to understand what went right and what went wrong. What lessons can be learned and how we as a risk and identify gaps so when the next hurricane hits we will be better prepared. As a result of Hurricane Harvey more than 275,000 customers lost power in texas and severe flooding affected supplies and fuel. Compounding the response to challenges in Energy
A little earlier, martin heinrich, talked about todays vote on methane regulations. Heres a look. Mr. President , i am proud that the senate voted to reject an effort to overturn common sense protection to reduce methane waste. It was three years ago that satellite images from nasa revealed that there was a giant cloud of methane. About the size of the state of delaware sitting over the four Corners Region in Northwestern New Mexico and southwestern colorado. Although evidence had shown that there was methane air pollution in the four corners, as early as 2003, the image of the nasa data is truly striking. This is a warning of a potential major threat to Public Health for communities in the region. The San Juan Basin and the four Corners Region has long been a leading producer of oil and natural gas. With the natural gas boom in the mid 2000, production in the basin grew by leaps and bounds. That created hundreds of new highpaying jobs and a major new domestic source of an Important En
Take it a capitol hill for the interior secretary will be testifying before the Natural Resources committee. You are watching live coverage on cspan 3. The committee will come to order. This morning the committee will discuss the president s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget for the department of interior. I would like to welcome secretary holland haaland and Denise Flanagan back to the committee. I want to thank you all three for joining us today. To set the scene the administration is requesting a 2 million for 2025. That is a 5 increase over fiscal year 2024. I think it is important to note for contexts that congress has also provided the Department Almost 50 billion in appropriations over the last three years to the bipartisan infrastructure law an Inflation Reduction Act. I look forward to discussing how the department is implementing those laws using the historic funding and justifications for the increase. It has been a year to the day since you were last before the committee for
Take it a capitol hill for the interior secretary will be testifying before the Natural Resources committee. You are watching live coverage on cspan 3. The committee will come to order. This morning the committee will discuss the president s proposed fiscal year 2025 budget for the department of interior. I would like to welcome secretary holland haaland and Denise Flanagan back to the committee. I want to thank you all three for joining us today. To set the scene the administration is requesting a 2 million for 2025. That is a 5 increase over fiscal year 2024. I think it is important to note for contexts that congress has also provided the Department Almost 50 billion in appropriations over the last three years to the bipartisan infrastructure law an Inflation Reduction Act. I look forward to discussing how the department is implementing those laws using the historic funding and justifications for the increase. It has been a year to the day since you were last before the committee for
Sir, nothing has changed, lets go over it again i do not need that. Have the director of National Intelligence saying Something Like that without broad agreement across the intelligence community. So i think that is fact one. The day russians 400 andot china or some guy. It was the russians. Second, in terms of what the russians were after, they claim they were after sowing discord. In this, they were spectacularly successful. But they were not alone. They had a candidate with russian moves. By contrast, they had a candidate very tough on russia and who they blamed for the mass demonstrations against the corruption in the russian elections in 2011. And ive to believe cannot going to classified information but you have to believe the uniform nature of the hacking and dumping of damaging tothat was secretary clinton and helpful to donald trump was both incidental and accidental and the russians saying they did not know what they were doing is not credible. Want a senate investigation, a