a it involves the domestic policy council, department of energy, department of interior and the usda. there are methane issues in the agricultural side, which we will not talk about here. so first of all, we are very active in that. certainly one of the major issues that i think is suggested is that we certainly need more data in terms of what are methane emissions. not just from production wells, but and to end, including transmission and distribution systems for natural gas. now, there have been recent publications, one that got a fair amount of attention in "science magazine" last thursday for example. the suggestion there, and i am just repeating what they said, quite a respectable group of authors, that the total methane emissions are probably somewhat higher than epa's current estimate, although certainly in the ballpark. more than likely the production wells are not the major focus of that. we need more data and then to respond in a variety of ways. there are others in the private sector that are doing a terrific job as well. there is a blue-green alliance of environmental grou

most of his one dozen predecessors, energy secretary ernest moniz serving at a time of unprecedented energy supply and security for the united states. as his departmenteported in its annual energy outlook for expansion in domestic production of crude oil and natural gas is reshaping the economy. , much fromroduction the use of controversial jai alai like -- hydraulic fracturing technology has oil ofput nearing 1970 levels 9.6 million barrels per day. that production will cut america's reliance on imported crude oil to about 25% in a few years. it has also led to secretary moniz's recent statement that it might be time to lift the decades-old u.s. ban on exporting crude oil. the increased amounts of natural gas on the market are forcing the closure of many coal plants and supporting the obama administration's drive to reduce greenhouse gas emissions. in addition, there is enough supply so natural gas can be exported to mexico, canada and overseas. in addition, the production of electricity from wind and solar power is at record levels. secretary moniz embraces president obama's all of the above energy strategy including support for nuclear power as lo

it involves the domestic policy council, department of energy, department of interior and the usda.there are methane issues in the agricultural side, which we will not talk about here. so first of all, we are very active in that. certainly one of the major issues that i think is suggested is that we certainly need more data in terms of what our methane emissions. not just from production wells, to end, including transmission and distribution systems for natural gas. now, there have been recent publications, one that got a fair amount of attention in science magazine last thursday for example. and i amstion there, just repeating what they said, quite respectable group of authors, that the total methane emissions are probably somewhat higher than epa current estimate, although certainly in the ballpark. the productiony wells are not the major focus of that. and then to data respond in a variety of ways. there are others in the are doing a terrific job as well. alliancea blue-green of environmental groups and labor unions looking at the methane problem, and we will be convening the gro

we just ought to pass this bill, authorize the department of energy to find the money and then find it in the department and pay for it, get it over with. >> there's no question, congressman, this would end civilization, as we know it. i'm not being dramatic. i am not. >> you're not. you're not. >> you just heard the former secretary of transportation talking about the issue and, you know, what it would do to everything. but at the same time, if we all agree that it's a problem, what needs to be done in congress? is it a question of who gets credit for it? because, with all due respect, congressman, i don't think anybody gives a damn if we end up paying for it because we're going to end up paying for it anyway. why can't we get these bills out of committee and pass what the house passed in what do we need to do? >> you should. and i'm going to disagree with secretary lahood. we don't need any more hearings about this. we've had hearings. everybody understands this issue. i was briefed on this a couple of months ago. people in congress knew about this attack a couple of months ago and i

building what took so long is that the standard process well part of the problem was that the department of energy denied access to the new mexico state university independent monitoring group and so. so it's been you know a game of catch up where the independent monitoring is you know. didn't have early access into the site so that's part of the problem that information has been withheld essentially by the government for days now but it's going to be days weeks months even longer to understand the full scope of this accident what was the reason for withholding. i'm not sure why the department of energy denied access to the independent monitoring group very interesting now meanwhile the obama administration sources say that the president finalized a six point five billion dollar loan deal to build the country's first nuclear reactors in more than thirty years so it's been decades why are they considering building new nuclear reactors now well this is part of an ongoing. the nuclear industry has been looking to revive itself they called it a renaissance in fact it's a relapse to the same economic f

freeze this, is a tremendous need we don't have to charge more, we're charging taxes and rung a department of energyt to pass this bill, authorize the department of energy to pay for it, get it over with. >> there is no question this would end civilization as we know it. i am not being dramatic. >> you're not. >> you just heard former secretary of transportation talking about this issue. you know? what it would do to everything, but at the same time, if we agree it's a problem what needs to be done in congress? is it a question whof gets credit for it? with all due respect i don't think anyone gives a damn if we're going to pay for it. why can't we get the bills out of committee? and the senate to pass what the house passed? what do we need to do? >> i'm going to disagree with secretary la hood. we don't need more hearings everybody understands this issue. people in congress knew about this attack. i'm surprised that they didn't take action we should have bills passed and figure out a way to fund them, again. you don't need -- you don't need to find $2 billion immediately. this is not, you know, it

the department of energy opened the facility in 1999, to house the by-product of nuclear weapons. it has hazmat gloves, suits, and is supposed to entomb the materials for 10,000 years. that is until the year 11,999 ad. if, as reports reports suggest, the place has failed, that means it failed before it reached a quarter of 1% of its life span. i spoke with an academic, and he described a warren of panels. at the end of the horizontal shafts in the rooms the size of a football field, barrels of radioactive trash sits on pallets. over the cores of years, they are supposed to collapse. it's not clear how radiation might have gotten loose. the site was chosen for geological stability. it makes for a handy material. there's no groundwater to speak of in next coe. as described to me, there is a tremendous amount of monitoring equipment, the workers are in close proximity and would be exposed if there was a leak. this is a unique facility. nowhere else in the world is there a permanent resting place. a deep repository. this is a place where the planning and resources were gathered in one

well the part of the problem was that the department of energy denied access to the new mexico state university and the monitoring group. and so on. it's been. you know the game of catch up nowhere the independent monitoring is is you know that it had to have early access into the side so that's part of the problem that go the information has been withheld essentially by the government for days now but if it's going to be days weeks months even longer to understand the full scope of this accident was the reason for withholding them. i'm not sure why the department energy denied access to the independent monitoring group very interesting meanwhile the obama administration sources say that the present finalized a six point five billion dollar loan deal to build the country's first nuclear reactors. dani more than thirty years so it's pretty it why are they considering building new nuclear reactors now well this is the part of an ongoing juggernaut guy that did you clean industries and you know looking to revive itself that they called it a renaissance in fact it's a relapse to the same

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the levels dropped below what you would normally get after a routine x-ray, according to the department of energy. >> a lot of people are skeptical. >> with good reason. this is the first time in 15 years they have had a leak, and the department of energy held this forum, and hundople showede not satisfied with the answers they were getting. on top of that, a lab in carlsbad that tests radiation, has gotten more appointment in the last week as over the past six months. as for employees, officials are saying they're determining schedules. there's no risk to friends and employees, and the epa is being asked to test though site. >> trace, thank you. >>> an important update on a sick girl. after the state of massachusetts took her away from her family. we're hearing a judge may now allow them to reunite but the battle over how to treat this teenaged girl some what is behind -- girl and what is behind her illness is up to the air. doctors versus doctors and a family caught in the middle. the teen's father is our guest live next. the conversation about her mortgage didn't start here. block >> something

the department of energy opened it to house the by-products of nuclear weapons, research and production's supposed to entomb those materials, transuranic waste for 10,000 years, until the year 11,999 ad. if, as reports suggest, the place failed, it has failed already it reached even a quarter of 1% of its total life span. i spoke with an academic who visited the facility and he described a group of panels, six rooms the size of football fields. at the end barrels of radioactive trash sits on pallets and over the course of 75 years of the ceilings are supposed to collapse, burying the barrels for all time. it's not clear how radiation may have gotten loose. the site was chosen for its geological ability. there's no groundwater. there's salt in the soil. the workers are in close proximity to the radioactive nearly, they'd quickly be exposed. this is a unique facility, nowhere else is there a permanent centralized resting place, a deep geological repost itry. this is a place where the planning and resources the federal government were gathered in one place. unfortunately that seems it was

but it can say that the department of energy has known since january that they had intentions to remove me from my position and officially asked the department of energy who did not approve that. and coincidentally a couple days later was terminated. my belief is that i raised safety issues because i was in a key prominent position and they made the decision to get rid of me. into the energy department has said they oversee the project and they said that they did not sign off on your termination. and your termination also raised safety concerns. are you concerned, i'm sure most people watching are concerned as we listen to this anyone who speaks up about concerns at any kind of environment like this would be doomed? >> i think that that fear is genuine. secretary came to hamford to reach out to whistle-blowers in june, six of us were actually scheduled and had a meeting with the secretary and his staff. of the three people, 5 of us have been terminated. >> you are not objecting to the new -- you think this could be done safely? >> yeah, i absolutely. i'm a nuclear engineer and i have de

. >> after 9/11, but the department of energy and the office of homeland security and this includes securitys that would relate to the grid into their various facilities that were not nuclear. >> and is probably what i alluded to earlier. and that is the focus has been so much on cberprotection. that we may be turned too much attention away from pure physical attacks. neil: do think others could come to light? we are just finding out about something from last april. >> this is something that the deral authorities need to look into. there hasn't been in the cloud. and this includes the protection of the grid. >> what was this for? what is this about. is it a dress rehearsal for something bigger than this is far more damaging than getting the target card screwed up. >> especially with these transformers, it could take months to get these back in service we are talking about though western parlor country being without power or a month or longer. and so it is just the beginning. and it opens up the door for them to be preoccupied with this kind of disruption. >> i think these guys know exactly w

of her noble energy on public lands. and especially in the west where you have abundance of sunshine and thermal and wind's blowing in making a real push with the departmentof interior with much of the public land. making a real effort to lease the land for renewable energy also for conventional energy development and never before has that not really been open for business in the sense of her noble energy and i think that that will be accessible. many renewable energy projects are permitted on land and they are flipping the switch on some of these projects just yesterday. and the department of interior has been doing a great deal offshore. and so that -- if the public lands are open for business, and there are the renewable resources, we should really take advantage of that. >> when the federal government this up, these omissions come up with those associated with those from the federal lands? >> yes, that's an interesting question. all agencies in all federal action to evaluate this underneath it. and so for example if blm is leasing for cool development, they need to consider the greenhouse gas part of that. and there are questions about technical stuff

cities, daily clean cities, and we have access to a lot of data through the united states department of energy websites that we can share with the public to help them make those kind of decisions. >> we might want to think about doing something like that. not that we want to promote car use, but that we do want to ensure that when people buy cars, that they buy the best cars that are available. that's an idea. and i did want to ask about the possibility of unintended consequences. with respect to your waiver requirement, and particularly the one that asks people to justify low mileage vehicles and whether or not that might have the perverse effect of getting people to use those low mileage vehicles more so that they can justify keeping them? >> i suppose that could happen. i think, you know, we're in a situation where we have to get information about the use of the vehicle and we're starting with an assumption that if a vehicle is putting on less than 3,000 miles a year, that it's likely not to be needed. now, there are some departments that can come back and justify why they do need to have t

of renewable energy on public land where appropria appropriate. but especially in the west where you have abundant sunshine and wind blowing and lots of room to make a push in the department of interior which controls much of the public land in a real effort to permit and lease the land for the renewable energy developme development. they also do it for conventional energy development and they've always done by conventional energy development but never before have they really been hoping for business in a sense for renewable energy and that's been a big success story for thousands of renewable energy projects permitted on the public land. they were flipping the switch in california on one of those projects, and the department of the interior has been doing presales offshore blog just for audio and gasp the wind develop so that again if the public land was open for business into the conventional energy development and there is the renewable resources we should take advantage of that and we have. >> when the government looks at its mission, does it account for the emissions associated with extraction from the federal land conventional fossil fuels? >> that's an interesting

they have a bunch of different agencies, the department of energy and department of congress and thehite house are working on these guidelines and they worked with hundreds of companies to police standards together. responseget a positive , they're doing something right but in a divided congress, a white house that doesn't necessarily it along with any of the people in the house republican leadership right now, there's not a lot legislatively that you can do. until there is some dynamic shift, it's going to be like that for a while. president of the security industry and financial markets association in new york, thank you so much. coming up, we will talk about that twitter redesign and how it's looking like facebook. how will that impact user growth? ♪ >> i'm emily chang and this is "bloomberg west." online payment companies like square and paypal are facing higher levels of regulatory scrutiny and security concerns, especially overseas. could social media hold the key for making social payments more secure? i want to bring in my guest who joined the board of we pay, which is basica

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last year trying to get traction on this issue, trying to get the department of homeland security, department of defense, department of energyvene and try to get some action. he was unsuccessful. and his agency did not have the power to order the kinds of improvements that very likely are needed. >> the improvements would be done by the industry, presumably because they felt it was in their own interest to do so, or because they were required to do so as a regulatory matter, if there isn't an agency that would be in charge of actually making these improvements, is there an agency or could there be some sort of instruction from the federal government that the industry has to meet certain standards that are tougher than what they have to meet now? >> one of the proposals is that there might be action by congress to let's say anoint perks that the agency, mr. well hoff worked for, to anoint it as an agency capable of putting in place temporary rules, they would set out at some point in the future, during that period permanent rules would be worked on, and this obviously requires collaboration with industry. because you want to

previously, she worked as the senior information technology and cybersecurity adviser at the department of energy focusing on cybersecurity for the energy sector and managing public/private partnerships. she also played a key role in i.t. and cybersecurity governance and led the development of the electric sector cybersecurity capability maturity model. she received a bachelor's degree from virginia tech, an accounting and information systems and a master's degree from george washington degree, an engineering management systems engineering where she's currently an adjunct professor. to her right, ari. >> schwartz. ari serves on the white house national security staff as director for cybersecurity privacy, civil liberties and policy. previously, he worked as a senior policy adviser for the department of commerce and was the senior internet policy adviser for the national institute of standards and technologies, nist, where he represented the organization as a member of the department of commerce internet policy task force. between 1998 and 2010, ari led efforts to promote privacy protections in th

new mexico it's a department of energy facility for storing nuclear waste principally called tony i'm from the nuclear weapons facility it was licensed for ten thousand years but on february fifth february fifth there was a fire down there and now we have just fifteen years of the operation of this facility we have radioactive plutonium in emery c m surfacing now being evidence in radioactive monitors a half a mile from the site and just recently the announcement that thirteen contractors who were working on the surface at the time have now been internally contaminated by radioactive plutonium is the most deadly substance known to man and that's amazing paul gunter thanks so much for being thank you and thank you and nate will be back with us in our next block mystical. crazy alert nosy news reporter katie the news caster heather won't let anything get in her way when she's reporting a story not even it appears her own snuff i have there was reporting live from oakland california the day we were up because started drifting out of her nose but she didn't freak out she got resourceful c

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department of education? why do you need a department of commerce? why do you need a department of energy?w that's the butt of a lot of jokes that i couldn't remember the third one, but there are more than three. >> let's look into the politician here. he has figured out a way to go big with this in a tea party republican environment. we're saying, it's more than three. there's an appetite for that. >> there's an appetite to abandon any national standard for anything. i can see why that's important rick perry. i'm not here to mock the guy. there's only two of those 2016 gop candidates that are running right now. one is rand paul. and the other is rick perry. it's fun to make fun of the governor, but he's serious about this. when he ran those ads in new york and california last year, urging businesses to come to his state, that was a preemptive strike in the campaign. rick perry will tell any audience he's speaking to anything they want to hear. the guy is really serious about it. it's the only 2016 potential candidate with a plan. i think progressives and democrats will underestimate him a

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. >> the department of energy is keeping an eye on a radiation leak discovered this weekend in new mexico. high levels of raid nation were picked up at a facility where nuclear waste was stored, in under ground levels of the plant, where it's stored half a mile below ground. workers were not underground and have not tested positive for contamination. crews on cape cod are rushing to restore power to parts without it. parts of massachusetts were hit with more snow. 10,000 are without power, due to fallen trees and downed powerlines. they are hoping to get that number down. >> in central colorado, two skiers were killed by an avalanche. the two bodies were found. three others were hurt. >> the west is faced with more storms. it's been a relentless winter. >> and with the temperatures going up, the snow in the mountains is compacting itself. you get rain and it gets cold, snow levels come down and you get the powdery light snow. you get layers and that's why we have problems. that's why there's avalanche warnings across utah, nevada, and other places. wind gusts up to 60 k/hr for the washing

even the department of energy, the president's department of energy, energy information agency said you will be able to depend on coal and need it for the next 30 years. the president acknowledged that we reduced emissions in the last few decades. >> what about the e.p.a. regulations on coal-fd fired power plants. >> we should be working together with the technology. $8 billion has been laying there since 2008. none of it has been spent looking for technology, r&d. if we reduced emissions thus far, we did do more. we burn less than one billion ton of coal in america. >> do you believe that the line that the administration is waging, the so-called war on coal? >> if you had someone shooting at you every day, you would think you were in a war. >> you think that? >> you have this moving target and performance standards saying they want coal and gas, the same air standards. they can't. it's physically impossible. and all we have said, why don't you take a more realistic approach, look at the six best coal-fired plants in the country and use that as your standard because they are already pro