Thursday, April 8, 2010 7:54 AM
Need-To-Know Memo, April 8
By Amy Harder, NationalJournal.com
1) Attorneys general from several coastal states are urging the Senate climate trio to ensure legislation doesn't preempt EPA from regulating greenhouse gas emissions and also doesn't override state efforts to cut emissions (NationalJournal.com).
2) Making good on a request by Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass., the Nuclear Regulatory Commission on Wednesday "asked the National Academy of Sciences to study whether nuclear power plants present a cancer risk to people living nearby" (The Hill).
3) Only about 7 percent of U.S. mines have wireless-communications systems in place since a law was passed in 2006 mandating companies install them within three years. The West Virginia mine where the explosion occurred Monday didn't have the two-way system installed in the portion where the miners were working (Wall Street Journal -- subscription).
4) The U.S. has the largest installed base of wind power in the world, but competition is heating up from other countries, most notably from China, who "became the top market for wind power last year," according to a new report (Wall Street Journal -- subscription).
5) A group of Texas oil firms have raised just under $1 million in an effort to block California's cap-and-trade system, which became law in 2006 (New York Times).
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