Sentences with phrase «energy subcommittee hearing»

«If the solar storm of 1921, which has been termed a one - in -100-year event, were to occur today, well over 300 extra-high-voltage transformers could be damaged or destroyed, thereby interrupting power to 130 million people for a period of years,» Joseph McClelland, director of the Office of Electric Reliability at the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, said at a May 31 House Energy subcommittee hearing on the issue.

Not exact matches

A hearing last December by House Energy and Commerce subcommittee also drove home the point that the overwhelming scientific consensus is that GMO food is as safe as any other food and that a mandatory GMO warning label could be inherently misleading.

The hearing by the House Energy and Commerce Committee investigations subcommittee came in response to a June incident in which CDC scientists in Atlanta moved anthrax samples they mistakenly thought were inactivated from high - containment labs to less secure ones, potentially exposing dozens of workers.

«CCS technology is feasible; it is available,» she said at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

Given the situation, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D — CA), the chair of the Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development, warned at a 9 April subcommittee hearing that the U.S. program could be in jeopardy.

FDA has not yet released a draft guidance on the matter, but at a hearing yesterday, members of the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Commerce Committee's health subcommittee raised questions about the agency's authority to regulate these tests, its motivation for doing so, and the potential impact of such regulations on the diagnostic industry.

There's a House subcommittee hearing today on that very question: «Energy Development On The Outer Continental Shelf And The Future Of Our Oceans.»

But somehow or other, the subcommittee on energy and the environment of the House Committee on Science and Technology today pulled off a (relatively) civil hearing on basic questions related to climate science and policy options.

In the first week of September, a U.S. House Energy and Commerce subcommittee held hearings questioning a 40 - year - old law that forms the bedrock of competition in the electricity... Read More

That's why we brought our tin foil hats to yesterday's hearing, called together by the U.S. House of Representatives Energy & Power subcommittee chairman Ed Whitfield (R - KY).

This point was made clear at a recent House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, where witnesses emphasized the enormous value that the changing dynamics in the global energy markets offered for the U.S. economy and America's energy secEnergy and Commerce subcommittee hearing, where witnesses emphasized the enormous value that the changing dynamics in the global energy markets offered for the U.S. economy and America's energy secenergy markets offered for the U.S. economy and America's energy secenergy security.

«CCS technology is feasible; it is available,» McCarthy told lawmakers at a House Energy and Commerce subcommittee hearing Wednesday.

, chairman of the energy and power subcommittee, said at the Tuesday hearing.

House subcommittee hearing features testimony from people who have received funding from fossil fuel interests and primarily advocate for the continued use of fossil fuels over renewable energy.

Mr. Fox brought a crew to film a hearing of the energy and environment subcommittee that was looking into an Environmental Protection Agency finding that fracking was probably responsible for groundwater contamination in Pavillion, Wyo..

In an attempt to encourage the right to reform their ideas, Democrats on the Energy and Commerce Committee's Energy and Power subcommittee called a hearing this week putting forward the scientific argument for climate change.

Last week the U.S. House of Representatives» Committee on Energy and Commerce held a subcommittee hearing on two bills to expedite permitting for exports of natural gas.