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

in a statement the oklahoma oil and gas association said more study was needed. there may be a link between earthquakes and disposal wells but we still don't know enough about how waste water injection impacts oklahoma's underground faults. back in texas lawmakers are considering a bill that could help oil and gas companies by stripping local officials of their ability to ban fracking. >> the citizens in arlington had to evacuate around a drilling because it was spewing up fracking fluids, and this would say you cannot regulate anything that is happening below the ground. >> what the state is telling us we don't have a right to say that we don't want earthquakes. the industry can come in and do whatever they want to us. that really bothers me. >> they've got pretty much what they wanted out of our land. and the process they have destroyed it. >> house bill 40 has been approved in the texas state house. now it awaits a vote in the state senate. john henry smith al jazeera. >> in washington senate will vote on the approval of loretta lynch as the new attorney gener

restore of the lot and that is inside the unit there's a kitchen right there those are the two gas meters associated with the front building having no gas at the rear of the building i had mention there were 3 electrical meters those are the 3 electrical meters one is legally permitted for the service this is the single water service of the building so this one service is supplying 3 unit on the property and this is the electrical water heater mounted on the outside of the rear and . >> so that electric was permitted electric. >> the electrical work for the building was in fact, signed off and . >> it was commercial or - >> it was done on the permit that was labeled dwelling unit back in 2002 era it didn't have plans associated with that and so forth. >> we can see we have the required bathing facilitates and sanitation fats required per the code and this is the street facade of the front building so as you can see it is a beautiful old building so i think one more thing we find interesting this is the is an born for the building right here so san born maps are reliable as you can see it shows the o

gas explosion. well, frank keating, our governor, was also a former f.b.i. agent who had been trained in investigating terrorism in the 1960's. former tulsa prosecutor. former u.s. attorney. former associate attorney general of the united states. and he knew what he was looking at and he immediately looked at that television set, i'll never forget what he said, that is not a natural gas explosion. that's a car bomb of some sort. he knew instantly what he was dealing with. and on that day and in the subsequent days he led with extraordinary distinction in mobilizing resources leading from the front, being on the front line, was an exceptional act of public leadership fran official who was less than 100 days into his -- from an official who was less than 100 days into his term. equally impressive was the leadership of his wife, our first laidy kathy keating. most of america knows of the memorial service that took place on sunday after the disaster. i remember the night after the disaster being at the governor's mansion and we were still -- we didn't know how many people had been lost. we didn't know if there were survivors still in the building. there were search teams. we were dealing with

she previously worked at the american gas association at duke energy and she has a very impressive academickground. we have miss carol lloyd who is the engineering vice president at exxon mobil's upstream research company. she also has a long, distinguished career with the engineering manager at exxon oil and imperial oil and she is the smartest person on technology i have ever met. so if you have some real technical, write to her. write to her and finally to my right we have ms. drew pierce son year policy adviser for the environment and natural resources and government affairs group. drew is an ashgslaskan and she has been secretary of interior on a range of issues specifically with alaska affairs and she was appointed by the george w. bush's office coordinator in the office of the federal coordinator for alaska national gas transportation projects. that's a title. that's a mouthful but drew is a legislator. she served for 17 years in the alaskan state legislature and she will help us in a very powerful perspective from the state of alaska. so we have some great slides. each of the paneli

she previously worked at the american gas association at duke energy and she has a very impressive academic background. we have miss carol lloyd who is the engineering vice president at exxon mobil's upstream research company. she also has a long, distinguished career with the engineering manager at exxon oil and imperial oil and she is the smartest person on technology i have ever met. so if you have some real technical, write to her. write to her and finally to my right we have ms. drew pierce, senior policy adviser for the environment and natural resources and government affairs group. drew is an alaskan and she has been secretary of interior on a -- adviser to two former secretary of the interior on a range of issues specifically with alaska affairs and she was appointed by the george w. bush's office coordinator in the office of the federal coordinator for alaska national gas transportation projects. that's a title. that's a mouthful, but drew is a legislator. she served for 17 years in the alaskan state legislature and she will help us in a very powerful perspective from the state of

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

the beneficiary there and we are seeing reductions in our highway users tax, the gas tax as well as the new cost associated with workers' compensation. a couple of potential factors that could affect the forecast. so two big things. one if our retirement returns are less than what we have assumed. we have assumed in this document that the pension fund, the returns in the pension fund investment are what the pension fund expect. if those returns comen and a lower rate we would see the impact of our employer cost in terms of how much we need to put into the the pension fund. the second and we've talked about this before as we walked through in greater detail in the economic scenario and financial plan, we don't project a recession in this scenario, we don't know when it will happen, what we assume is that revenue will be growing at a pace faster than the early year and slower with consistent with inflationary years, so this projection will also change. the 5-year financial plan is required to include fiscal strategies to balance the gap between revenues and expenditures. these are the same strategies that i

. >> for its part, an oil and gas industry trade association dismisses charges of contamination saying: >> in our search for answers we traveled to sacramento in december and spoke with the head of the ground water monitoring for the state water board. >> john, is big oil poisoning millions of gallons of water each day? >> so you're asking me to give you a yes or no answer on something that i don't know, so i think the right answer would be that i don't know. >> do you think you should know the answer to that question? because i think a lot of people are asking that question. californians are saying wait, fracking is happening and we're worried about toxic water. >> that's a reasonable concern that people have. i mean, as a resident of california, you should be. >> plenty of californians are like farmer tom franz. he believes regulators haven't been regulating on behalf of the people of california. >> you don't believe dogr is doing its job? >> the agency is in place to make sure big oil gets what it needs to make big profits. >> on the backs of the farmers like yourselves? >> on the b

association in america. the ip a represents thousands of oil and gas producers. today energy in-depth is releasing a look inside the anti-fracking echo chamber. it deals with the new york decision by andrew cuomo to ban shale development in the entire state through a ban on high-volume, hydraulic fracturing or fracking or short. i say unprecedented, it cousin according to "the wall street journal" new york is the first state with significant natural gas resources to ban fracking. governor cuomo's decision was completely at odds with early studies by environmental regulars that it has been used safely in the united states for decades. governor cuomo's decision overturned two earlier findings from state and environmental regulators. that hydraulic fracturing could move forward safely under stringent regulations. the reaction to the new york band has been telling. while some fringe environmental groups are celebrated, others say this goes too far. former new york city mayor, michael bloomberg, a major ally of environmental groups called governor cuomo's decision mis

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gas activity at the right depth, the right location and the right time to provide the most stresses to cause earthquakes. >> reporter: but the scientists also point out the majority of wells are not associated with earthquakes. scott, the oil and gas industry says it supports further research into this issue. >> pelley: manuel, thanks very much. the hubble space telescope gave us a stunning present for its 25th anniversary just ahead. >> this portion of the "cbs evening news" is sponsored by viking river cruises -- exploring the world in comfort. we all enter this world with a shout and we see no reason to stop. so cvs health is creating industry-leading programs and tools that help people stay on medicines as their doctors prescribed. it could help save tens of thousands of lives every year. and that w ould be something worth shouting about. cvs health, because health is everything. ♪ ♪ it may seem strange, but people really can love their laxative. especially when it's miralax. it hydrates, eases and softens to unblock your system naturally so you have peace of mind from start to finish. love your laxative. miralax. new flonase allergy relief nasal spray outperforms a leading allergy pill

all the oil gas industry associations are lined up on it.whether fracking creates earthquakes. the u.s. geological survey shows that over the last six years the rate of 3.0 magnitude and higher earthquakes in oklahoma has been 300 times higher than it was in previous decades. what do you say to that? >> well you know, these earthquakes primarily happen in areas where there is still oil and gas activity first of all. second of all, there's not any tie to stimulation fracking of wells in oklahoma. there's been no tie to that at all. you know it is proven that you know, you can put injection wells, disposal wells and salt water on salt plains and you can have some disturbance there. but for the most part that hadn't been the case. like i say, these have been happening areas that there's no oil gas activity in. so it's you know we're on top of the ridge that runalizeidge that runs all the way through oklahoma. back in mid-'50s a lot of activity on that feature and we're seeing the same thing again right now. >> carl love to continue this convers

associated with it. but during this whole oil and gas task force that the governor set up last year you had the colorado municipal league and you had the colorado association of counties say we can work through these issues using the existing regulatory framework rather than -- rather than turning -- rather than coming up with state wide policies that are basically being proposed by national ban fracking groups. >> thank you. >> mr. holstein has been -- he wanted to say something. >> thank you. i just am going to crystallize an important point that mr. lomax is making here. we believe that the set of rules that the state of colorado has put into effect in the last year are among the most progressive and comprehensive in the nation in terms of the range of issues they develop. and we were delighted to partner with three largest oil and gas developers in the state in coming together to develop the consensus that led to that comprehensive new set of rules. but the driver for that conversation, what brought everyone to the table was the fact that colorado communities, one by one, were adopting or considering

gas coming into people's homes. as far as the other fluids associated with the industry, it is mostly a surface issue. those are readily taken care of, in most cases. in terms of the flow backwater it is my understanding that most of the flow back is reused to drill new wells. the quantity of flow back has gotten small. ship it to ohio or something for injection. the industry has developed ways to do that. in pennsylvania, there was a remarkable situation where one of the companies -- and i forget which 1 -- suggested developed a way to drain: mind's -- to drain coal mines, but there was a state regulation saying you can't get economic advantage out of using a waste products. but the chemical engineers are at work to try to solve an issue so that in the future we won't have to use fresh water. rep. perlmutter: thank you. mr. lomax, i wanted to ask a question but my time is expired. rep. smith: without objection the gentleman is recognized. rep. perlmutter: oh. [laughter] i am done. i will talk to mr. lomax. rep. smith:mr. lomax: i would like to add a little context. i think what you are seeing in colo

gas development in the risk is to be evaluated carefully by the use of the verifiable. unfortunately, opponents of the fracturing make the claims based on the possibility and not the probability of associated risks area environmental protection agencies have used this agenda driven approach to wrongly assert a connection between the hydraulic fracturing and groundwater contamination. for example peta issued an unprecedented order that halted natural gas development only to have a commission investigate and find that they were wrong. and they released a draft report that claimed it caused water contamination. however, it was later discovered that they had several weaknesses. among them the report failed to take into account the naturally occurring natural gas that wasn't peer-reviewed and it involved poor sampling and lacked the data transparency. the epa was forced to abandon its investigation. then under the groundwater contamination after it had first agree agreed that there was no contamination. several months later they indicated that oil and gas development was not the cause of the contamination. it appears that the decision to reinitiate the investigation was based on political press

it's for negligence leading to the 2010 gas pipeline explosion in san bruno. ''the associated press" obtained a copy of a statement by utv president michael picker. picker says he will ask the commission to study the utility's structure, which currently has a single ceo and a board for both gas and electric utilities. >>> a building in san francisco's dog patch neighborhood is now being cleaned up after one of our reporters started asking questions. the building's current owner might surprise you. people who live in the neighborhood say they are proud of its history and upkeep, but one building owned by the san francisco police department was covered in graffiti and trash. neighbors say the city has a double standard. they say there are fines for anyone else who doesn't clean up graffiti and garbage. >> man up. put yourself in our shoes, and just act the same way you would if you were an individual who owned a piece of property in the dog patch. >> after talking to neighbors, ktvu's noel walker made a call to the police department, and shortly after, they sent a crew over to c

gas explosion. well, frank keating, our governor, was also a former f.b.i. agent who had been trained in investigating terrorism in the 1960's. former tulsa prosecutor. former u.s. attorney. former associate attorney general of the united states. and he knew what he was looking at and he immediately looked at that television set, i'll never forget what he said, that is not a natural gas explosion. that's a car bomb of some sort. he knew instantly what he was dealing with. and on that day and in the subsequent days he led with extraordinary distinction in mobilizing resources leading from the front, being on the front line, was an exceptional act of public leadership fran official who was less than 100 days into his -- from an official who was less than 100 days into his term. equally impressive was the leadership of his wife, our first laidy kathy keating. most of america knows of the memorial service that took place on sunday after the disaster. i remember the night after the disaster being at the governor's mansion and we were still -- we didn't know how many people had been lost. we didn't know if there were survivors still in the building. there were search teams. we were dealing with

most of the cost associated with the acid gas relation which the agency has concluded present no public health 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 dramat

gas and electric. >>> a new investigation details the lapses in airport security we don't always hear about. associated press finds there have been nearly 27 00 perimeter breaches since 2004. san francisco airport had the most but they claim it's because they disclose the most. overall it reports gaps in security remain problematic despite hundreds of millions spent since 9/11. >>> a consumer alert for anyone who drove on roads where salt was used this past year. a five-year study says it is so corrosive it can cause important parts of your failure to fail. just get the underside of your car or truck washed several times and have your brake lines checked for rust. >>> now you can get started. apple began taking preorders on its website when it stores open. you'll be able to try on the various sizes and models but can only order them online then in two weeks you can have your watch delivered or you can pick it up in a store. are you going to get one? >> sure why not. i like the latest toys. >> you do. you're about all your technology. >>> when we come back here a car flying over a sidewalk and into traf

most of the costs 450er the majority about 5 billion annually, are associated with the acid gas regulation which the agency has concluded presents no public health risk, no public health concern. the agency said that our modeling has consistently showed that power plant-related ex- exposures are at least an order of magnitude below the conservatively safe level. the title 4 program congress addressed pollution with acidification potential and required reductions of 9 million tons a year at about a cost of 1 to 1.4 billion. the acid gas program is projected to result in reductions of acid gases about 40,000 to 50,000 tons per year at a cost of $50 billion. what that background shows your honor, is that when congress treated power plants differently it asked whether it is appropriate to impose further regulation of a specific type. whether it's appropriate to impose regulation under this section on the most aggressively regulated industry under the clean air act. now, what the statutory -- >> can i take you back to justice breyer's first question? and the first question was about the way the

most of the costs 450er, the majority about 5 billion annually, are associated with the acid gas regulationich the agency has concluded presents no public health risk, #é it asked whether it is appropriate to impose further regulation of a specific type. whether it's appropriate to impose regulation under this section on the most aggressively regulated industry under the clean air act. now, what the statutory -- >> can i take you back to justice breyer's first question? and the first question was about the way these categories work and how the categories enable the epa to mitigate certain dramatic or onerous costs on certain segments of the industry. that's not an unknown provision of any kind. and indeed it seems to me that the provision very much cuts against your argument because epa in some ways can't even figure out the costs until it makes those categorization decision that the aggregate costs obviously depend on how epa categorizes and subcategorizes. so you would have the epa make the cost calculation before it really can, given the structure of the statute. >> your honor, the cost

the third bullet on the slide we talk about the national security and economic benefits associated with oil and gas development in the north and for those of you that were here this morning to hear senator murkowski's remarks on the economic benefit of oil and gas development to local alaskans i don't think i can say it any better than she did, but for those of you that like numbers there's quite a lot of discussion in the report about the potential economic implications of an offshore development. i would encourage you to take a look at that. this particular display is -- illustrates the variability in arctic ice conditions around the world. there is not one arctic. in the first two columns in this table we describe arctic environment. by environment we describe of ice depth and water depth. in the first column you have a word description and in the second column we have the examples around the world where that environment is found. the third column is the technology implications on oil and gas development. you can think of these as technology tiers. tier one being the first rough -- rowan roughly

gas and electric. >>> an extensive new investigation details the lapses in airport security that we don't always hear about. the associated press finds there have been nearly 270 airport perimeter breaches since 2004. the report says san francisco international airport had the most breaches but officials there claim that's because they disclose the most. overall it reports gaps in security remain problematic despite hundreds of millions being spent since 9/11. >>> and a consumer alert this morning for anyone who drove on roads where salt was used this past winter. a five-year government study says that salt is so corrosive it can cause important parts of your failure to fail. but there's an easy fix. just get the underside of your car or truck washed several times even. the study also suggests having your brake lines checked for rust caused by that road salt. >>> well, if you're serious about getting an apple watch, now you can get started. apple began taking preorders on its website overnight. when its stores open, you'll be able to try on the various sizes and models, but you can only order them online and then in two w

e responded to the concerns to the associated press by issuing a statement saying "it has redoubled its safety training changed top executives and made its natural gas system safer." today's meeting is scheduled to start at 9:30. >>> thank you, amy. east bay mud said it could take days to clean up cement that spilled into a creek in oakland yesterday morning. roughly 140 your of cubic yards of cement flowed into the glen echo park creek while replacing a 24" pipeline saying a subcontract was filling the pipe with sidewalk when it happened. >> valve was left open while the pipe was filling and that was mistake. it should not have happened. >> works will use vacuums to remove the mess today and east bay mud will restore the creek back to normal. scientists are taking samples. >> there was a brazen burglary and they broke into a woman's home. a dozen camera caught this man lurking outside the home at 2:00 on tuesday morning. man manages to get inside the home despite alarms going off he walks through the house, room to room and she was locked in the bedroom and called police and yells at the burglar and she scares him off. he gets were on the skate boa

e responded to the concerns to the associated press by issuing a statement saying "it has redoubled its safety training changed top executives and made its natural gasfer." today's meeting is scheduled to start at 9:30. >>> thank you, amy. east bay mud said it could take days to clean up cement that spilled into a creek in oakland

take oil and gas the tobacco lobby trying to get rid of smoking ban on a local level in 13 different states and the other nra the national restaurant association trying to get rid of sick leave laws, overtime laws, this is happening everywhere. >> "america tonight's" christof putzel. >>> why nurses are going off duty refusing to treat california prisoners. soledad o'brien's look at kids behind bars. can a program called cambiar live up to its reputation, change? and the antidote to heroin overdoses. >> in our fast forward segment behind bars.to save money some prisons have turned health care over to for profit companies. one of the biggest corizon evenly former employees charge the company doesn't provide prisoners the care the law guarantees. >> i feel the trade by the company because they're supposed to keep the environment safe for everybody, the inmates and the co-workers. >> failures in corizon's health care. >> did you see any patient die because of inadequacy of the health care? >> yes a vascular cat. cath. i reported it and reported it, at 5:00 in the morning when i went back to his cell i could smell blood before i went into his room.

association in america. the ip a represents thousands of oil and gas producers.gy in-depth is releasing a look inside the anti-fracking echo chamber. it deals with the new york decision by andrew cuomo to ban shale development in the entire state through a ban on high-volume, hydraulic fracturing or fracking or short. i say unprecedented, it cousin according to "the wall street journal" new york is the first state with significant natural gas resources to ban fracking. governor cuomo's decision was completely at odds with early studies by environmental regulars that it has been used safely in the united states for decades. governor cuomo's decision overturned two earlier findings from state and environmental regulators. that hydraulic fracturing could move forward safely under stringent regulations. the reaction to the new york band has been telling. while some fringe environmental groups are celebrated, others say this goes too far. former new york city mayor, michael bloomberg, a major ally of environmental groups called governor cuomo's decision misguided poli

gas. and the environmental protection association says traces of methel bromine were found indoors, even thoughw, the resort which is owned by sea glass vacations, told us the pest control company, termin ex fumigated march 18 right in the middle of the family's nine-day vacation. the epa clearly states meth al bromine is restricted because it's odorless and causes injury to the lung system and can be fatal when inhaled. >> gosh. so now we're talking about the punishment. the culpability. who is to blame here. and how this resort is going to endure that. are we talking about department of justice looking at criminal investigation, which leads to fines? or what would happen? >> the u.s. criminal justice department -- u.s. department of justice has opened an investigation. they're looking into it. so is the epa. epa was sent down by a u.s. senator and there is an open investigation. termin ex said they are cooperating with authorities. they said we're thinking about the family and we join the community in wishing them a speedy recovery. a spokeswoman for the epa told us they are actively working

gas station is actually a pillar of the community. >> what would they charge him with, littering? >> this statute is innately infuriating. there are many women in the united states wearing burkas who are muslim and to associate that with a jihadist and holding a rifle there could be a hate crime here. >> what i like here is the story that you're not telling. you're not telling the story about somebody getting shot somebody getting arrested and being charged with a hate crime. you guys step forward. is it offensive? i don't know it was to the person that shot the video. at the end of the day no one is getting charged. i think it might all just go away. >> security at jfk international airport saw a woman that looked nervous. she was taken into the back and he found four pounds of cocaine. it turns out the 70-year-old was trying to smuggle it in. it was a street follow of $73,000. >> check out these crooks. they stole a man's identity and thousands of dollar and they did it in style. they are totally dressed to the nines and there's been no arrests yet. [ bleep ]. >> it turns out i'm not the only new yorker who tried my hand at cat calling. >> what do you think if i were to yell at you, like hey dude how are y