Growing energy demand, you are watching live coverage on cspan 3. We are proud to announce that doubled the tenants of last year. I welcome hundreds more joining us live. I will also give you a sneak peek of the program and share some reminders. First, in the spirit of the natural gas and oil industries, commit to safety because api sets the starpndards for the highest operations around the world, well begin our event today. There are no plans of emergency drills during the anthem today. Please treat the announcement is a real thing. It is a good idea to be prepared. The best exit is the one from which you enter back here to my right and additional exits to my left right up front and the back of the room. I would like to extend a warm welcome to our distinguished guests including members of congress, administration officials, Industry Leaders and trade Association Executives and other partners and allies. You will see some others on the screen behind me and thank you for holding your a
Heritage foundation Nick Lawrence and friends of the orte discuss the Trump Administrations plan to leave the plan to leave the paris climate agreement. The u. S. T wednesday, house of representatives will do something it has not done in 21 years, hold a public hearing on the impeachment of the president of the United States. Good morning. This is washington journal. We would like to know your expectations for that hearing. What do you hope to learn next week in the two hearing set and what do you hope or anticipate the outcome may be . Democrats call 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. And for independents and others, that is 2027488002. You can also text us, 2027488003. Make sure you let us know where you are texting from and your name. cspanwj is how you reach as on twitter and facebook. Com cspan. A headline this morning in roll call, open impeachment hearings to begin next week. Katherine tullymcmanus writing the house will move into the public hearing phase next week. Bill taylo
Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind
Killing scores of people and knocking out power water and communications. Residents are still recovering today. Id also caused multiple offshore oil spills. Active pipelines and platforms where the source of some spills, while a banded ones with no identifiable we wear this earths of others. I attributed identified from space, following a weather event since the government started tracking leaks and spills using satellites almost a decade ago. We shouldnt view this as a oneoff event or a freak accident. There are thousands of oil and gas structures in the gulf, including riggs, platforms wells, power cables and thousands and thousands of miles of pipeline. All posing environmental and safety risks. Some of this infrastructure is active and some is abandoned. But it is all aging in a growing concern for communities and wildlife impacted by spills, and also taxpayers that may be forced to pay for its eventual removal. As Climate Change super charges storms in the gulf, more powerful wind
This is just over two hours and 20 minutes. Let me call this hearing to order. We are here to examine the implementation of the drinking and wastewater portions of the bipartisan infrastructure law, this is helping to deliver clean Drinking Water to millions of households and schools across our country. Before we do that, let me say how grateful i am to both panels for joining us today, including representatives of Drinking Water and large utilities. We are appreciative of the assistant administrator who leads epas office of water. The love our guests. We want to remember this day. Yesterday, the Biden Administration took a major step in addressing the presence of toxic forever chemicals in our Drinking Water. This announcement was some 20 years in the making, and issue we are dealing with in 48 states. I want to commend the administrator, assistant administrator and all of epa for proposing a thoughtful, sciencebased National Drinking standard. Its a critical step to protecting Drinki