sergeant and lundy say that you got it wrong. is this an area that epa plans to correct before finalizing the rule? and how can epa justify emission reduction targets based on building blocks, if the building blocks themselves are so very flawed? >> thank you for your question, senator. this gives me an opportunity to start saying something i think i will be saying a lot today which is that we have received many, many comments on the proposed rules and are looking very closely at all of them. this is just one area where we have received significant comment. we expected to. that is what the public process is about. let me also mention that in designing the proposal and in setting up the building blocks what epa did was look across the range of activities that are currently in use by the power sector that have the result of reducing carbon emissions. there are numerous. they go way beyond the four that we identified and included in our building blocks and our assumption in going into the proposal was not that every single source wo

we talked about the sierra lundy project. that's now being closed. we expect about 23,000 riders come opening day. if all goes as planned this could all open in 2016. the economic fen fit could be huge. we talked to expected riders, they're all looking forward to this. so they are anticipating it being built in 2017. and soon they will all be opening parking structures to go with these two stations. >> and that does not necessarily end in bariesta. >> it's interesting there's another phase to this project. there's another 6 miles that will go from this station to santa clara. and that's expected to be done in 10 years. and they're still trying to nail down federal funding for that. >> azenith smith in san jose tonight, thank you. >>> californians are cutting back. for the first time have met the governor's goal for statewide water conversation during this drought. the new numbers came out during today's meeting of the state water resources control board. state officials are urging continued conservation especially after last week's dismal snow pack s

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you know as a basis for setting the building block one level epa relied on a 2009 study by sergeant lundy. it is widely known that epa misconstrued this study hypothesizing heat rate improvements discussed on the study on a cumulative basis. he has explicitly stated that the ranges presented in the report, quote, do not support the conclusion that any individual coal fired egu or any aggregation of coal fired egus can achieve 6% heat rate improvement through implementation of best practices and equipment upgrades as estimated by the epa, unquote. so our state deqs say that building block number one is unachievable. is this an area that epa plans to correct before finalizing the rule? how can epa justify emission reduction targets based on building blocks if the building blocks themselves are so very flawed? >> thank you for your question senator. this gives me an opportunity to start saying something i think i will be saying a lot today which is that we have received many many comments on the proposed rules and are looking very closely at all of them. this is just one area where we have r

you know as a basis for setting the building block one level epa relied on a 2009 study by sergeant lundy. it is widely known that epa misconstrued this study hypothesizing heat rate improvements discussed on the study on a cumulative basis. he has explicitly stated that the ranges presented in the report, quote, do not support the conclusion that any individual coal fired egu or any aggregation of coal fired egus can achieve 6% heat rate, improvement through implementation of best practices and equipment upgrades as estimated by the epa, unquote. so our state deqs say that building block number one is unachievable. is this an area that epa plans to correct before finalizing the rule? how can epa justify emission reduction targets based on building blocks if the building blocks themselves are so very flawed? >> thank you for your question, senator. this gives me an opportunity to start saying something i think i will be saying a lot today which is that we have received many, many comments on the proposed rules and are looking very closely at all of them. this is just one area where we hav

my name is walter lundy. i go to howard as well. why is it that the mainstream media is letting police chiefs around the country off the hook? i am appalled that they take the high road of the thought that there could be racist police officers were there could be a bias. they need a history lesson. do we need them to watch "selma"? the entire back drop of racism is local law enforcement and the black community. all of a sudden, when you bring the thought up, they are like, how could you dare think such a thing that my officers would treat a black person differently? that has been our history for a hundred years. not politicians, but local law enforcement. why is it that when you do interviews with them, no one says, wait a minute, remember the dogs? we let them get a platform to say, my guys will take the high road because we care about the community. we don't remind them of history and how that lingers in our mind as a community. >> i don't want to defend police chiefs, but i do want to prevent stereotyping of everything the police