it's the louisiana oil and gas association. we're coming to one of their meetings to find out why it was so important to be involved. >> today loga is hosting industry power brokers, and they're not happy about the lawsuits. >> one out of every 2 dollars in plaquemines comes from the oil and gas industry. the last place on earth you'd expect lawsuits, and yet, they're happening >> that's gifford briggs loga's vice president. >> when you've got parish councilmen in plaquemines parish filing lawsuits against the oil and gas industry now we have to be paying attention to every council meeting in the parish, and we have to make sure that we have pro oil and gas councilmen elected. this is an incredible amount of money that the industry is having to spend, not investing, not drilling new wells not paying employees not doing the things that we wanna be doing but simply defending lawsuits. >> these all-encompassing lawsuits to sue the industry so you can force a settlement so the lawyers can make a bunch of money isn't going to solve

>>reporter: for its part the oil and gas industry trade association dismisses claims of contamination saying this is a bureaucratic issue over the permitting process and what's important is that after extensive testing it's clear no water supplies have been impacted by this situation. >> so you don't think he's doing his job? >> they've never done their job. the agency is in place so the public thinks they're being protected but it's really a buffer between the public and big oil. an immediate shutdown for all water walls. >>> thanks for joining us. inside story is up next. we leave you tonight with a mixture of danger and beauty in the skies. the sun fired a blast of magnetic plasma to the earth and the result it was northern lights as far south as oregon. have a good night. >>> you know that old riddle that begins when a tree falls in a forest? it's worth noting since single sex education at the college level has been slowly disappearing. the sweet briar college case is just the

will of course have an impact on drilling and oil production and associated gas production. we expect by 2016 to see gas production decline which will be the first decline in a decade. a lot of demand growth and energy exports entering the market at the end of the year so we do think u.s. natural gas is starting to look more interesting in 2016 and we could see prices trade back up above $4. >> great stuff. thank you for joining us as ever. senior director at global commodity strategist at bank of america meryl lynch. >> he has criticized his australian counter part for playing to stereotypes and exaggerating ireland's drinking culture. he called on people to have one or two or three to mark the holiday. speaking ahead of a meeting with president obama in washington today he heard abbot's message and did not agree with it. >> now the luck of the irish could translate to big wins for u.s. equities today. according to past performance march 17th is one of the average. >> you're not wearing green today. >> neither are you. >> i am just for st. patrick's day. we want to hear fro

associates, san francisco chamber of commerce. >> thank you will you read the next level. >> so for this pacific gas and electric company committee on jobs building owners and management association of san francisco, berg davis public affairs, hanson 3wrig9 llp round floor public affairs louses 92 vin coalition for better housing public advocacy partners. >> okay. please select one from this group. >> hanson brigitte llp okay. so the last level. >> okay michael yeah. key andrew greg, airbnb barbary coast consulting karen flood bay bio trust company of the west, edward day t z k broadway, llc fisher man's property llp brooding cast capital, llc and the strategy communications fritz could systems inc. phillip lessor r l braun and matt he will. >> willie brown. >> james ross long law valero consulting inc. john newman. >> thank you select one. >> just one. >> okay. >> airbnb. >> great thanks that complements our selection process. >> thank you, ms. shay and to the public for your assistance two former commissioners can't get better than that the next item on the agenda is discussion and possible action for the project calendar for v

but they believe this was a gas-related explosion associated with work being done in the building. 19 people injured, four seriously. some 200 firefighters battling the blaze here all afternoon. fire raging through these buildings. smoke billowing across the neighborhood here on the lower east side of manhattan. eyewitnesss said it was the scene of chaos. they heard and felt the explosion. people ran out of the buildings with whatever they had on. some people coming down the stairs. a couple people jumping out of low-floor windows. one eyewitness described people walking around dazed and confused and bloody. this amp, gas inspectors came to the japanese restaurant to inspect gas and plumbing work being done. it did not pass inspection, did not pass muster. about an hour later, the building exploded. lawrence? >> adam reese, thank you very much for joining us on that. coming up police in michigan are investigating their own officers after a brutal arrest was caught on tape. why did officers punch an unarmed man 16 times after a routine traffic stop? that's next. why are you deleting th

gas industry. governor wolf a addressed the association of energy engineering at the pennsylvania convention centerhapters say they support the governor's proposal to create a gas extraction tax the the proceed which will fund schools and environmental programs. >>> well, in weather this evening we are going to be seeing temperatures that are falling across the delaware valley. our eyewitness weather watchers are showing temperatures that are in the 40's and the the 50's at this time going down into the the 20's overnight tonight and wait until you see what we will wake up to tomorrow morning, the the first, let's enjoy the st. patrick's day evening. kyle is reporting a temperature of 51 degrees and sunshine. wind at just 7 miles an hour in hatboro. the temperature in cherry hill is 59 but lynn reporting in serious wind. lets take a look at what she's saying. what a tease i need more spring please just a few days away. it is a few days away but we have a storm to talk about and on storm scan three we are seeing that, if i can get it there it is, clear skies right now bye a a storm that is brewing i

better for us economically because we locked in several years at a time when oil and gas prices were high and associated electricity rates went up if you were tied into fossil fuels. that's an illustration where we as a business could help support renewable energy. now, the states typically that had those renewable facilities were states where there was some kind of renewable energy standard. it wasn't a tax credit necessarily. it was an expectation that utilities have a certain percentage. it is a requirement they developed it. if you marry that incentive, if you will, or expectation from a state, with a willing buyer and there are lots of willing buyers out there that want to reduce the carbon footprint, you have a situation that drives a cost down for those technologies because more people get into it. i got other examples actually with the company on where we put solar panels, distributed solar on our roofs and which ones we use and which ones they went to and has everything to do with national and state incentives to support energy development. and we accelerated. we did 11 stores one year because

we don't know if there is an associated infrastructure problem with the gas supply line coming into thewill be sorted out by the investigation, but we have the explosion in harlem last year and i did part of that investigation, that was purely an and for structural problem with a 100 year old gas main failing and gas migrating into the building. this may be a little bit different. this may be workers doing something they should not have done and they may have seen that and told them to cease and desist. we don't know what they did and whether they should have done more. alix: regardless of what they did or did not do, the city has a 100-year-old infrastructure. will we be seeing more and more of these as time goes on? gene: it is going to happen and continue to happen. there is no way around it. the expense of replacing all of the gas piping underground in new york city is astronomical. the only problem with that is, and it does not give me comfort to know, the utilities usually respond to these incidents and a reactive manner. something has to happen. that is not a good thing. we wish

gas fireplaces. the idea is to reduce public exposure to smoke but the retrofit could cost $3,000 or more. the real estate association is against the new proposal. >> it's a choice. can we make our own choices in our lives or do we have to have someone dictating what choices that we can make? >> the real estate association says the proposal hurts homeowners and home buyers and plan to fight it. >>> 5:12. let's check traffic with elizabeth. >> it's dry today so that's probably the biggest difference from yesterday. we had a number of spinouts yesterday morning. this is our only accident out the door now. and tow crews should be there any minute if not already. southbound 280 at el monte. one lane is blocked. there is a minor backup approaching the scene through los altos hills. here's a live look through the altamont pass. suddenly all our sensors turned to red just within the last five minutes. so those backups begin right around the 205/580 split and then continue to about north palestinian. that's the heaviest of the traffic right now. and then you can see it clears out heading into livermore and the dublin-pleasan

most of the cost associated with the acid gas relation which the agency has concluded present no publicth risk. the agency said that our modeling has consistently shown that power plant related exposures are at least an order of magnitude below the conservative tillie determined safe level. -- conservatively determined safe level. congress addressed pollution with the acid of vacation potential and required reductions of 9 million tons a year at about cost of $1.4 billion. the acid gas program is projected to result in the reductions of acid gases about 500,000 tons per year at the cost of the $500 billion. -- $5 billion. what that back rent shows is that why congress treated powerplants differently. it asked whether it is appropriate to impose further revelation of a specific type, whether it's appropriate to propose regular under this section on the most aggressively related industry under the clean air act. justice kagan: can i take you back to justice breyer's first question? it was about how these categories work and how the categories enable the epa to mitigate certain dramatic or

associated sources mean. both senator isaacson and i have long been engaged in issues related to after ga. there have been organizations pledging allegiance to isil. just this past saturday boko haram pledged allegiance in a statement they posted to their twitten account. and the conflict with boko haram in nigeria is another frankly good example of a situation where an american boots on the ground presence is not what is called for. an american effort to facilitate and support efforts by the nighians and their regional allies is the best strategy going forward. but in your view if their conflict began to engage some of our coalition partners would this aumf qualify for any groups that have pledged allegiance, and what are the actions they need to take in order to be covered by this aumf in its current language? >> well senator, thank you for the question an important one. as of now, at this moment in its current state merely by pledging as they have pledged or flying the flag or, you know saying that they are now affiliated there's no decision made nor any contemplated that they would be

retrofit their homes with gas fireplaces if they are selling to reduce the public exposure to smoke but it can cost $3,000 or more for the retrofit. the real estate association is against the proposal. >>> it is 4:46. a full check of weather. >> a half inch of rain. >> i'm sensing a little bit of a cold. >> right here, yeah. a cold front. [ laughter ] >> how are you feeling? >> i'm okay. >> are you hanging in there? > michelle: i'm hanging in there. the throat is hanging in there. >> six boxes of tissue. >> you need any tea, let me know. we have the cold in here. we have some very mild conditions out the door this morning. good morning, everybody. let's call on our hi-def doppler radar because we had rain yesterday and a lot of rain in the northwestern part of the state of california this morning. picking up light showers around sacramento. that's about it. north bay you have a chance of a scattered showers today. otherwise sun and clouds everywhere. record highs by friday. that is the precipitation falling apart at the seams as it skims across the northern half of the state of california just barely to the south of our rain line just barely for the most par

exxon and mobile -- are all part of the american petroleum institute the oil and gas industry trade association. as we all know around here, the american petroleum institute is dedicated to obstructing action on climate change and even to spreading false doubt about its existence and a.p.i., in turn, funds some of the worst and most irresponsible climate denial front organizations. chevron, b.p., shell and exxonmobil also support something called the american legislative exchange council or alec. alec is an organization which works to undercut climate science and undermine climate progress at the state level interfering in our state legislatures. alec has tried to roll back state renewable fuel standards and has handed out model state legislation to obstruct and tie up the president's clean power plan. so which way are they going to have it? the way they sell themselves in the ads with funny little sun-- sunbursts and molecules? or their real presence spending money to shut down the climate debate and keep pumping the oil? major companies like google, ebay facebook have dis-associated themselve

president signed an executive order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the federal government by 70% and there are a whole host of actions associated with that. we are releasing updated standards for fracking on federal lands. but if you look forward, core to the agenda is the clean power plan, which will be focused on reducing carbon pollution from the power sector. that has been proposed and then we will implement that. we have an opportunity in the international space to leverage what we are doing domestically into a viable global agreement. then beyond that, if you look at in the area of methane or energy efficiency, we have a lot more to do to tighten down on energy waste and pollution but also provide long-term incentives to encourage investment in that space. host: will you be doing that by burning the constitution? as your friend said? >> this is an agenda that lands within a well-established legal price -- precepts. not only of the clean air act but other environmental laws. if you look at the clean power plan which is what you are obliquely referencing, this is a rule that at its core is based on providing flexibility to

the last of this certainly type of tortoise that a lot of us associate with this ga lap goss eventuallyd what may have to be sacrificed. >> you'll see more later tonight, but in the case of these giant tortoises, goats, they invasive goats brought to the islands by whalers and pirates had eaten all of the turtle food. so they were starving to death. they realized my goodness, there's less than a hundred theft. they hired snipers and helicopters to shoot a quarter million goats over the course of five years in order to save this one creature. that worked. that was sort of a groundbreaking experiment in species survival. >> tourists are allowed. >> yes. >> i think 240,000 a year which is actually not a lot. >> compared to most resorts, yeah. >> did you think at all whether we humans should even be allowed to be in such a special place? >> absolutely. that is a real sort of faultline debate among conservations right now, sort of garden of edenists who believe some parts should no-go zones for human beings but others say that's not realistic. we're headed towards 10 billion. we have to lear

gas fireplaces. the idea is to reduce the public's exposure to smoke. the retrofit can cost more than $3000. real estate association is against the proposal. >> it's a choice issue. really it gets down to can't we make our own choices in our life or do we have to have someone dictating choices we can make? >> real estate association says the proposal hurts homeowners and home buyers. there is a plan to fight the proposal. >> joining us now with the bay air quality district. good morning. why are we talking about banning wood burning fireplaces? >> we are talking about making amendments to the current wood burning rule. that could be a proposal to have residents change out fireplaces at point of sale. >> what is wrong with the wood burning fireplace? >> it is the number one air pollution source in the winter time. it can be more in certain neighborhoods. if you have one or two fireplaces burning in a small neighborhood, it can impact all the neighbors. we want to create clean air. >> we have what we call spare the air days where it is against the law or the rules to burn wood on those days. >> yes. >> questions are

because quantitative easing has a certain set of dynamics associated with it and market moves that at some point, just become synonymous, the natural gass an aroma or odor you can't smell anymore. we get used to it and the economy isn't necessarily synonymous with the level of equities but it's important and especially the economy x germany. that really is important. the german economy is cooking in greece. look at their budget surpluses. the last one is our very own federal reserve. so let's try to think about this. i think it's important to calibrate. i think before this week's fed statement and press conference, that most of the percentages on what affected the euro currency really were associated with qe, the european economy to the tune of maybe 80 or 85%. now i think what the fed has done is throw some questions into the timetable of tightening and no doubt tightening is a dollar positive. so maybe it's more 65/35. but the reason semanticses are important, is because if the next fed statement gets us back on the notion that we're going to have something going on this year with regard to rate hikes, then the big driving force that

gas and bread and white picket fences. but since the year 2000, the nashville songwriters association, where i serve as president, estimates that america is lost between 80-90% of its professional songwriters whose primary income is from royalties. i'm talking about creators. and what we create is not some obsolete, irrelevant, cultural product of days gone by. it's music. what we create is there when you fall in love you it is there when your heart breaks. it heals. it inspires. it time travels. it crosses party lines. so how does that bmi consent decree impact me? i feel that it puts bmi and songwriters at a disadvantage in several important ways. for instance, if great disputes could be resolved by arbitration rather than expensive litigation and that would feel like a win for everyone. new services could launch, and songwriters could get paid quickly without spending lots of money on lawsuits. songwriters also worry that bmi is not allowed to license rights other than the performance right. most new services need several rights. a one stop license from bmi would be a quick and efficient way to get the services off the

gas fireplaces. the idea is to reduce public exposure to smoke. but the retrofit can cost as much as $3,000 or more. the real estate association is against proposal. >> it's a choice issue. and really it gets down to can't we make our own choices in our life or do we have to have someone dictating what choices that we can make. >> reporter: the real estate association plans to fight it. >>> well, there was a little noise on the roof last night. >> a little pitter patter. >> yeah. which was kind of cool. we haven't heard rain in so long. >> for a while it was a squirrel, it wasn't raining. it was raining out there. >> it was raining. >> it was wonderful to have rain around here. hopefully you got some rain. and outside right now we have filtered sunshine. the rain quickly in, quickly out but we will take any drops we can get. and we did receive some this morning. a little breezy as well. morgan hill, livermore, napa 67 to 68 degrees. 60s are wild in fremont, oakland and san jose. more rain coming, some where in california eureka, far northern california getting some rainfall right now. here's the deal. there already is a buildi

gas producers. >> they'd go into a little turkish town and -- >> later that year hamm got a firsthand taste of this philosophy. he appeared before the oklahoma independent petroleum associationg, right? what happened? >> he told the group straight on that i'm the new sheriff in town. that we're going to use everything in the book to come after you. >> what was the reaction of the people there? >> shock, disbelief, shock and awe. >> there had been abuses by federal agencies before, but in the obama epa is unfortunately at the top of that bad list in terms of really using overtly threatening behavior. >> still at least until his meeting with president obama hamm had been hopeful he could change the mind of the administration. but while he couldn't get through to the president two weeks after that white house summit the department of justice got through to him. on august 2nd 2011 they brought criminal charges against his company continental resources. the crime? killing a bird. one bird. >> one bird. >> hamm's company was charged with violating the migratory bird treaty act of 1918. after a special agent of the fish and wildlife service found this dead bird in a reserve pit use

gas and bread and white picket fences. since the year 2000 the national songwriters association where i serve as president estimates america has lost between 80 and 90% 80 and 90 percent of its professional songwriters whose primary income is from royalties. i am talking about creators. what we create is not some obsolete, irrelevant cultural product of days gone by. it is music. what we create is there when you fall in love, we are heartbreaks and heels, heels, it inspires, it time travels, it crosses party lines. how does the bmi consent decree affect me? i feel it puts bmi and songwriters at a disadvantage. if it could be resolved by arbitration rather than expensive litigation it would feel like a win for everyone. new services services could launch, and songwriters can be paid quickly without spending lots of money on lawsuits. songwriters worry that bmi is not allowed to license rights other than performance rights. most services need several rights. a one-stop license from bmi would be a a quick and efficient way to get those services off the ground. these aspects of the bmi consent degree in my view have a valued t

association and western energy a alliance already filed a lawsuit. >> hydraulic fracturing technology is safely recovering lots more of oil and natural gas supportingobs and billions in tax revenue. >> well the facts tell a different story. in the past decade more than 250 gallons of water have become drilling waste. at least 360,000 acres of land have been directly damaged and about 450,000 tons of air pollution has been created per year. lots to talk about. i'm joined tonight by robert kennedy jr., president of the water keeper alliance and athan manuel and also nicholas lorris. why is fracking good if it uses so much water and it destroys to lands? i've got so many questions for you, but we'll start there. >> water is used for a lot of things. not just for hydraulic fracturing. this has created jobs lower prices, and these regulations are duplicateing what the states are already doing. >> these new regulations are actually much weaker than what we wanted to see. the president proposed regulations in may of 2012 that we thought were reasonable, that they were going to the same direction that most of the states were going, which was to require a d

president signed an executive order to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the federal government by 40%. and there's a whole set of actions associatedith that today, as you mentioned, releasing updated standards for fracking on federal lands. but if you look forward, core to our agenda is the clean power plan, which will reduce carbon pollution from the power sector. that rule has been proposed. we're going to finalize that rule and implement it with states. we also have a big opportunity this year in the international space to leverage what we're doing domestically into a viable global agreement, and then beyond that if you look at things in the area of methane or in the area of energy efficiency we have a lot more to do through rulemaking to both tighten down on energy waste and carbon pollution but also provide long-term incentives to encourage investment in this space. so this is an area --.com burning the constitution, as -- david: burning the institution as your friend -- brian: this is an agenda that lands squarely within well-established legal preceps, not only in the clean air act but clean water act and other foundational

gas and bread and white picket fences. but since the year 2000 the national songwriters association where i serve as president estimates that america has lost between 80% and 90% of its professional songwriters whose primary income is from royalties. i'm talking about creators. and what we create is not some obsolete, irrelevant cultural product of days gone by. it's music. wh you fall in love, when your heart breaks. it heals. it inspires. it time travels. it crosses party lines. so how does the bmi consent decree impact me? i feel it puts bmi and songwriters at a disadvantage in several important ways. if rate disputes could be resolved by arbitration rather than expensive litigation that would feel like a win for everyone. new services could launch. and songwriters could get paid quickly without spending lots of money on lawsuits. songwriters also worry bmi is not allowed to license rights other than the performance right. most new services need several rights. a one-stop license from bmi would be a quick and efficient way to get those services off the ground. these aspects of the bmi consent decree, in my view have deva

gas emissions by 40%. he signed ap executive order less than an hour ago. >>> turning overseas the u.s. and iran may be a step closer to an agreement. officials tell the associated a draft nuclear accord has been negotiated between the two countries. it would force iran to cut hardware that it could use to make an atomic bomb by about 40% for at least a decade. >>> honda adding more than 100,000 vehicles to its nationwide recall of driver side air bags made by takata. the vehicles include the 2008 pilot suvs, 2004 model year civics and accords from 2001. the problem, the driver side airbags can explode with too much force. honda has recalled a total of 5.5 million cars and suvs in connection with the air bag issue. >>> and the duchess of cambridge kate middleton revealing she's due to give birth in the second half of april. a royal baby could give prime minister david cameron's party a feel good boost as it heads into the general election may 7th. and that's our cnbc news update this hour. let's get back to "squawk alley." >>> take a look at alibaba this morning. shares rallying after that first lockup expiration in the week. it got us to thinking how does the e

gas is what you did. and so consequently here you are one thing about it as rigs come down for oil, you're going to be -- watch this one. but you are going to be the associatedow down. and consequently at some point, you know i'm 86. i think i'll see $6 natural gas again. >> are you going to live to 110? >> you think i got to live to 110? please. come on. >> i'm looking at you with a long life span boone. when you say you think you're going to see it at $6 how far out are you looking? are you looking four years, ten years, fifteen? >> oh i think i'll see $6 gas within five years. >> okay. and, boone, when it comes to what's been happening in washington, we've talked to you about this for years at this point. the pickens plan about trying to get people to use trucks the big rigs with natural gas. where does that stand at this point? >> well you know the company that i founded, clean energy fuels, our volume's coming up 30% a year. so it's happening, but man it's happening slow. and again people have to take my age into consideration. that we've got to make some of these things happen faster. and -- but it's going to get there. i had lumpbl with a guy yesterda

but in fact associated infrastructure like ports, and on waterways rail these are all critical for energy today and in fact the energy boom that we are seeing in the united states oil and gas, are severely taxing infrastructure in many ways that we have not seen. so things like grow america and other initiatives without we hope to bring forward on these related infrastructures are very critical. just one comment on the issue of perhaps smaller communities. two points. one is as i mentioned earlier we are putting forward to congress and again we hope there will be action in terms of these planning grants. these planning grants $63 million as i mentioned they are in the budget request. these are precisely to develop plans that can then be fundable -- should go through all communities in the states. in fact we held in developing ask you we are 1313 regional meetings and we have many representatives of state, local and tribal governments and we are just hoping we are going to be able to work with you in terms of developing these planning approaches that will allow us to forward infrastructure. the second i will make and i was out recently and it's not a small community but in

fact, associate infrastructures like talks -- i mean ports come in land waterways, rail, these are all critical for energy today and in fact the energy boom we see in the united states in oil and gasare severely taxing infrastructures in many, many ways we have not seen. the site grow america and other initiatives we hope to bring forward on this related infrastructures are very, very critical. just one comment on the issue of perhaps smaller communities. two points. one essay mentioned earlier, we are putting forward to congress and again we hope there will be action in terms of planning grants. we took $63 million has been mentioned. they are in the budget request. these are precisely to develop plans that can then be fundable and not should go through -- should go through all communities in the face. we help in developing this key we are 13 meetings with state local and tribal governments and we are just hoping we are going to be able to work with you in terms of developing these planning approaches that allow us to move forward on infrastructure. a second point i will make another site recently. it's not a very small community but in toledo, ohio, for example, where the city's