Rules. That is when i explain it in a goes through rep. Brooks you have no judgment a you cannot explain it to the committee . Admin mccarthy there is no specific definition i can offer you. A judgment that will be well documented by the science. Rep. Brooks how long has the epa been working on that . Admin mccarthy since we created the Clean Air Act. Rep. Brooks what year . Admin mccarthy 1990 . Rep. Brooks decades later you still do not have the definition. Admin mccarthy it is not apply to that away. Chairman smith thank you. The gentleman from virginia. Rep. Beyer thank you for being so patient and gracious this morning despite rather combative nature of the questioning. Our chair, my good friend and distinguished chair claims the epa has severely damage our economy. How do you reconcile that with 64 straight months of job growth and 12. 8 million private sector jobs and tripling of the stock market. If there is not perhaps better to look at the infrastructure bills we failed to pa
For a long period of time focused on arabic and palestinian, visavis, the israeli. Now, at least you have got three, the palestinian, israel confrontation still there. We have the gulf region and the east coast and the west coast. They are opposing each other. The third one is about the traps significance. Started from tunisia, now to many countries. So the missions are changing. And the United States meeps areans are changing. Secondly the mekchanisms, the ways of dealing with the complex situation are changing as well. For instance, the United States used to rely very much on the socalled quartet which excluded china from that. Now, with this Iranian Nuclear issue, we Work Together for p5 plus 1. This also shows china wants to play a role. Although the United States still is the first fiddle and china is the third one. The second one is the europeans but we are learning. We are still in internship to have a digression. You have your American University in beirut for more than 100 yea
Sooner. In the letter i submitted the National Conference of mayors pointed out that the Clean Air Act required federallysupported transportation activities are consistent with state air quality Implementation Plans and the largest rail hub in the country. According to the center of Regulatory Solutions freight traffic is expected to increase by 80 by 2020. How does epa expect the financially troubled state to implement these standards when the agency has not and will not consider the full potential cost of implementation . If i could just point out, sir, that the Health Standard sets up a process where states develop plans over time and there is significant time to achieve this standard but the majority my time has expired and if you can respond in writing back to these. The vast majority of the counties will be in the amendment as a result of national standards. Thats an important thing to remember. This is not on the backs of the states. It is a partnership between the National Gove
Background levels. Even epaso low that admits they have not determined how to reach full compliance. The marginal cost of ratcheting down the existing spread standard goes through the roof that thestimates standard would cost 3. 9 billion dollars to 15 billion annually and the 16 part would be 39 billion annually. Cost of study puts the 65 parts per billion at 140 billion a year, which would make this the agencys most expensive. Egulation ever the study also estimates 1. 4 million fewer jobs and household cost averaging 830 per year. These costs come on top of all of the other rules we have seen manythis administration, of which also impact the energy and manufacturing sectors. Moreover, this rule is yet another chapter in the Administration Efforts to force more extreme client policies on the American People. I would like to just name a few of them. We have done the utility mac, the same and, the cross state the tiertion rule, three, the 111 b, all on top of. His proposed ozone rule i
Relates to battling the taliban, the u. S. And its allies are doing everything it can to prop up the afghanistan military, the army and the local police force. To your point, a lot of people are asking, it has been more than 15 years, where is the progress . The Pentagon Bureau chief and Senior Editor at the military times, thank you for joining us. Guest my pleasure. Host coming up, we have current American Association for the advancement of science ceo, rush holt. He will be here to talk about the role that the federal science Advisory Boards are playing in the trump administration. Later on, we are joined by Pratik Chougule of the american conservative to discuss his piece on the u. S. Education system leaving the leaving highly intellectual children and their parents behind. Sunday night on afterwards. Journalist Stuart Taylor examines Campus Sexual Assault he isin his book, interviewed by the editor in chief of the National Law Journal and legal times. Share, for the viewers, what