Im sure senator murkowski will be here shortly. As some people noah 7. 9 magnitude earthquake hit off the coast of alaska with northwest warnings issuesed for activities that were expected the warning for the tsunami waves have been recalled and no doubt im sure the senator is dealing with lots of things related to that. I want to thank our witnesses, chairman mcintyre and mr. Walker for being here and the staff people that are here and blade we are back in operation. So we look forward from hearing all of the witnesses on the subject of the reliability of the grid and its performance. Last year, secretary perry and the staff viewed the liability of the fuel mix and i was relieved when i saw the staff report in august which i thought was balanced. It carefully distinguished between reliability and resilience and introducing Renewable Resources rgs synthetic i inertia and frequency response and resilience metrics needed to be developed. Unfortunately, secretary perifiled the report as a
From the oil industry, oil and gas industry. The 2012 in sps targeted hydraulically fractured natural gas wells. Reductions to green completion and expected to yield of 95 percent production including an estimated 1. 7 million tons of methane. Is it accurate that the nsps will not be implemented until the end of 2015 . My understanding is and im sorry, congressman i think that is right for the full implementation. We did recognize in that role that there was equipment that needed to be manufactured and installed, and we worked with the industry to make sure we were not being overly aggressive about the ability to have the Technology Available for full implementation. As epa calculated how much production the nsps has produced at this time . We have a good signal from our reporting program that has been tremendously effective at reducing Carbon Pollution because it is reduced as you are capturing volatile organic compounds. We have a very good sense this is effective already. I understa
Achieve the interests of local income local low income and minority communities. In cases where states may not be sure how to conduct Environmental Justice analysis or how to define an Environmental Justice community then i believe it would be helpful if the epa provided states with guidance and resources to help protect their most vulnerable communities which we all know have the least amount of influence to help themselves. Can you speak to this issue and assure me that one, epa is listening and working with the Environmental Justice as the agency prepares to finalize the rule skprks two, the agency will provide states with guidance data, tools and resources to help identify and protect these communities . I can assure you of that Ranking Member and i would also point out that our Environmental Justice budget is given an increase of 7. 3 million this year which will go a long way to helping us provide those tools. Gentlemans time is expired. Gentleman from texas, mr. Barton for five
Meet and exceed the goals laid out for virginia and the proposed Clean Power Plant through Energy Efficiency and the planet of Clean Energy Resources like solar power and wind power. If i stay offshore Wind Energy Area were to be fully developed, we can power over 700,000 homes just removing lloyd off the coast of virginia beach. We can build a future where eventually all of our energy comes from the wind that up the coast, from the sun shines on the rooftop every single day in making our homes and buildings so efficient that we with the solar people can cover the entire building and has more Energy Produced than we actually need to use. Thats the future of virginians deserve, but americans deserve and that is a future that the Clean Power Plant helps us make a step towards. Thank you very much for allowing a seriously today. Thank you or testimony. The next speaker is our congresswoman capito and william becker. On deck behind them are fred palmer and a feed name. Good morning. Shelle