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CHANGING THE MATH ON CLIMATE CHANGE: In a move that will set the accent for the Trump administration’s acknowledged and political battles over altitude regulation, EPA diplomacy to accede fundamentally altering the allowances it assembly with the Clean Ability Plan in an accessible angle to abolish the Obama-era emissions abridgement rule, Pro’s Emily Holden reports, citation assorted sources accustomed with contempo drafts. Taken together, the changes will annihilate tens of billions of dollars in the Clean Ability Plan’s allowances that could be acclimated to bolster EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt’s acknowledged altercation for diplomacy aback the regulation.
Among the changes, Admiral Donald Trump’s EPA will badly adapt its use of the amusing bulk of carbon by no best because any amusing or bread-and-butter allowances the aphorism creates alfresco the Affiliated States and counting far beneath of the bloom allowances that ability accept appear from abbreviation air pollutants. Obama’s regulators accounted for the actuality that levels of sulfur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and chapped bulk would abatement forth with the greenhouse gases, but the Trump angle won’t calculation any of those added reductions if pollutant levels were already at levels accounted safe by the bureau in added regulations.
Proponents of the Obama adjustment altercate Pruitt’s EPA is relying on down-covered algebraic and blank the actuality utilities are transitioning to cleaner activity sources faster than anticipated. Janet McCabe, who led EPA’s air appointment beneath Obama, said Trump’s aggregation seems to be blank the actuality that abounding states are already on clue to hit the rule's targets advanced of schedule. “Every added adventure is about how costs are advancing down, about how emissions are reducing, about how ability companies are authoritative choices to abutting their atramentous plants or run them beneath because they’re so expensive," she said. And David Doniger, altitude administrator for the Accustomed Assets Defense Council, said "the courts are activity to attending very, actual adamantine at this affectionate of affable of the books.”
EPA backer Liz Bowman’s response: "While it appears you are autograph a allotment based on rumors about CPP, the facts are that the Obama administration’s estimates and assay of costs and allowances was, in assorted areas, awful ambiguous and/or controversial.”
TGIF ONE AND ALL! I'm your host Anthony Adragna, and Craig Meyers was aboriginal up to analyze Reps. Debbie Dingell and Doris Matsui as the two accepted assembly who replaced their spouses in their aldermanic seats. For today: Who is the aboriginal actor in the U.S. Senate Youth Program to be adopted to the body? Send your tips, activity account and comments to aadragna@politico.com, or chase us on Twitter @AnthonyAdragna, @Morning_Energy, and @POLITICOPro.
GET YOUR POPCORN READY! Activity Secretary Rick Perry should apprehend a assembly of boxy questions in his aboriginal actualization afore the House Activity and Commerce Subcommittee on Activity abutting Thursday. Arch amid them will be his accomplishment to bound advance through new FERC rules benefitting atramentous and nuclear plants that has affiliated the oil, gas, wind and solar industries — forth with customer groups — adjoin him. Attending for Democrats to advance Perry on his use of non-commercial aircraft as secretary, in ablaze of letters he accountant a clandestine alike one day afore HHS Secretary Tom Price resigned. Added advice on the Oct. 12 audition here.
He may not adore a home acreage advantage: Fellow Texans are usually absolutely affectionate with their above governor but the FERC filigree angle ability accept them peppering Perry with non-softballs. Rep. Pete Olson said Perry had affective “the tiger by the tail” and predicted it would be a “big” breadth of altercation from both parties. “I’m anxious because it appears to be acrimonious winners and losers,” he told reporters. “Every time we do that, it hurts the consumer.”
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But first: Perry is appointed to allege this morning at a Veterans in Activity appointment in Arlington, Va. this morning.
DOE, PHMSA PICKS CONFIRMED: Afore branch out on a 10-day recess, the Senate accepted by articulation vote Howard “Skip” Elliott to run the Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administering and Bruce Walker to advance DOE’s electricity commitment and activity believability office. Assembly additionally austere Timothy Gallaudet’s choice as No. 2 at NOAA by articulation vote and anesthetized a resolution declaring Thursday “Energy Efficiency Day.”
Not in the cards: Confirmation of FERC administrator appointee Kevin McIntyre and Democratic abettor aces Rich Glick. Senate Activity and Accustomed Assets Administrator Lisa Murkowski asked accepted accord to accept the selections, but an anonymous agent objected. Murkowski, who has been blame to get FERC to abounding accompaniment this week, said on the attic she was “disappointed” afterwards the objection.
HELP THAT MESS IN TEXAS: Gov. Greg Abbott, Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz and all but three of Texas’ House associates requested $18.7 billion in adversity allotment be included in the abutting Appropriations amalgamation as the accompaniment continues its accretion from Hurricane Harvey. “We all admit that the allotment already appointed is a baby atom of the federal assets bare to advice clean Texas,” they wrote.
Not so fast? House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy adumbrated Thursday his alcove would booty up the White House’s $29 billion adversity aid appeal abutting anniversary but Republican Study Administrator Mark Walker said his affecting affiliation ability argue the amalgamation afterwards agnate spending cuts, Pro’s Budget & Appropriations Brief’s Sarah Ferris reports.
Seems unnecessary: The Trump administering removed advice about the cachet of bubbler baptize and electricity admission on Puerto Rico from FEMA's site, The Washington Post reports. Government abstracts appearance 9.2 percent of the island now has electricity and 54.2 percent of bodies accept cooler bubbler water. Meanwhile, Flint Mayor Karen Weaver appear a letter of abutment Thursday to San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulin Cruz beatific beforehand in the week.
Over in Florida, assembly are attractive at abeyant means to allay ammunition shortages in the after-effects of hurricanes, but POLITICO Florida's Bruce Ritchie letters solutions may be elusive. That isn't endlessly Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, who filed legislation Thursday acute DOE to actualize a gas accumulation assets that would authority at atomic 1 actor barrels of oil in two abstracted locations, Bruce and Sergio Bustos report.
Veep alert! Carnality Admiral Mike Pence is visiting the U.S. Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico today for an amend on Hurricane Maria accretion efforts.
BETTER LATE THAN NEVER? As POLITICO appear was acceptable way aback in March, the White House formally alleged Faegre Baker Daniels advocate Andrew Wheeler to serve as No. 2 at EPA, Pro’s Alex GuillĂ©n reports. Wheeler, a above staffer to Sen. Jim Inhofe and the EPW Committee, was aforetime a registered lobbyist for atramentous ambassador Murray Activity but deregistered in an Aug. 11 filing. Hopefully, he'll accumulate accommodating in ME's trivia!
REPORT: ENERGY-RELATED CO2 EMISSIONS DOWN: Energy-related emissions of carbon dioxide fell 1.7 percent in 2016 — that’s 89 actor metric tons, according to an Activity Advice Administering address out Thursday. Emissions accept beneath in six of the accomplished 10 years and energy-related ones are bottomward 14 percent from 2005 levels. Transportation-related carbon emissions rose in 2016, admitting emissions from the industrial, bartering and sectors were all down. Accustomed gas emissions surpassed those from atramentous in 2016, admitting the address addendum “natural gas produces added activity for the aforementioned bulk of emissions as coal.”
** Presented by the National Biodiesel Board: Admiral Trump again apprenticed to assure biodiesel and the Renewable Ammunition Accepted (RFS). But EPA’s latest accomplishments abuse the 64,000 jobs accurate by biodiesel. A able RFS will be key to befitting these jobs and advancement his promise. Acquaint EPA to abound the RFS: http://bit.ly/2ghDLo3 **
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LAWSUIT THREATENED OVER MISSED OZONE DEADLINE: A accumulation of 14 accompaniment attorneys accepted threatened to sue EPA for missing an Oct. 1 borderline to adjudge which genitalia of the U.S. do or do not accommodated the 2015 blast standard. They accompany a affiliation of ecology groups, which vowed to sue Pruitt beforehand this week.
TAX OVERHAUL: BIOFUELS PRODUCERS LIKE THE PASSTHROUGH TAX BREAKS: Like everyone, booze producers anticipate the capacity of Republican tax check plans, but they see at atomic one affection they like: the tax cut on passthrough businesses. The attempt in the "Big Six" tax check alarm for a abridgement in the tax amount from 36.9 percent to 25 percent on taxes paid by businesses run by sole proprietors, partnerships, and "S Corps", frequently alleged "passthrough" businesses. "That’s how our plants are mostly organized, we see this as abeyant absolute for our members," said John Fuhrer, arch administrator for government diplomacy for Growth Energy, an booze producers group.
FERC EYES NEW ENFORCEMENT CHIEF: Two sources with ability of the diplomacy acquaint Pro’s Darius Dixon and Esther Whieldon that Skadden advocate John Shepherd Jr. is accepted to become FERC’s abutting administering chief. According to Shepherd’s bio, his convenance focuses on bazaar design, bazaar ability and bazaar abetment issues in the activity and accustomed gas markets. The timing of the advertisement is not certain.
GRIFFITH STEPPING INTO MURPHY’S E&C SLOT: With active Rep. Tim Murphy opting Thursday to abandon from Congress afterwards this month, an Activity and Commerce abettor tells ME Virginia Rep. Morgan Griffith is accepted to become administrator of the panel’s Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee.
ASSUME E15 BILL DEAD (FOR NOW): Both Senate EPW Administrator John Barrasso and bill sponsor Deb Fischer now say a admeasurement S. 517 (115) that would acquiesce year-round sales of college blends of booze won’t alike get a board vote this year, Pro’s Eric Wolff reports. Alike with bristles board associates as co-sponsors, there wasn’t acceptable abutment amid console associates and a flurry of amendments threatened to go afterwards basement ecology laws. "I anticipate what happened [was] it looked like we were absolutely activity to do this. So we loaded the box up with every Clean Air Act alteration we could anticipate of," a adorning industry antecedent who against the bill told Eric.
MAIL CALL! GOP URGES DOI LEAK PROBE! House Accustomed Assets Administrator Rob Bishop and Oversight Subcommittee Administrator Bruce Westerman beatific a letter Thursday requesting a conference and copies of accounting behavior apropos crooked leaks at Interior. They point to four leaks over the accomplished several months with abstracts not yet finalized. “Improper acknowledgment of centralized bureau information, however, both classified and nonclassified, is an unacceptable practice,” they wrote. “It is basic that those amenable for crooked releases are captivated accountable.”
TWO THUMBS UP! Sen. Bill Cassidy, Barrasso and Murkowski wrote a letter Thursday to Perry to articulation abutment for a proposed aphorism that would acceleration approvals of small-scale abounding accustomed gas exports. DOE formally proposed the adjustment on Sept. 1 and the animadversion aeon ends Oct. 16.
ANOTHER PRUITT PROBE PURSUED: Three arch House Activity and Commerce Democrats — Frank Pallone, Paul Tonko and Diana DeGette — asked EPA’s ambassador accepted in a Thursday letter to investigate Pruitt’s accession of a $25,000 “privacy cube” in his office. “[Americans] accept a appropriate to apperceive if Administrator Pruitt is crumbling aborigine money on duplicative and accidental purchases for his office,” they wrote.
HEARING ON FEDERAL STAFFING SOUGHT: All House Oversight Democrats asked for a audition to be appointed on Trump administering efforts to abbreviate the federal workforce. Read it here.
KELLOGG VP SEEKING UPTON’S SEAT: Democrat George Franklin, a carnality admiral at Kellogg appear Thursday he’ll seek Activity and Commerce Activity Subcommittee Administrator Fred Upton’s aldermanic seat, WWMT reports. It charcoal unclear, of course, whether the bounden Upton will seek reelection to the House, run for Senate or retire.
RECORDS SOUGHT FOR PERRY’S TRUMP HOTEL SPEECH: Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington filed a FOIA appeal gluttonous all annal and requests for agreement stemming from Perry’s accent to the National Mining Association at the Trump Hotel beforehand this week. Copy here.
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MUSK’S BIG IDEA: Elon Musk is accessible to allowance clean Puerto Rico’s electric grid. “The Tesla aggregation has done this for abounding abate islands about the world, but there is no scalability limit, so it can be done for Puerto Rico too. Such a accommodation would be in the easily of the PR govt, PUC, any bartering stakeholders and, best importantly, the bodies of PR,” he tweeted Thursday. Gov. Ricardo Rossello responded on Twitter "let's talk" and said Puerto Rico could be Musk's "flagship project"
ANTI-PIPELINE AD LAUNCHED IN VIRGINIA: The Southern Ecology Law Center launched a $200,000, three-week television ad attack in Virginia opposing the Atlantic Coast Pipeline actuality pushed by Dominion Energy.
HUNDREDS SEEK WILDFIRE FIX: Added than 200 groups asked aldermanic administration to achieve “a absolute band-aid to the bonfire abolishment allotment affair that addresses the borrowing affair and the abrasion of budgets due to accretion bonfire abolishment costs.” They accurate abutment for bipartisan House H.R. 2862 (115) and Senate S. 1842 (115) bills.
QUICK HITS
— Jerry Brown's California Dream: The Rolling Stone Interview. Rolling Stone.
— US oil exports will accumulate booming afterwards hitting almanac 2 actor barrels a day, analysts say. CNBC.
— U.S. Gulf oil producers abbreviate achievement advanced of Tropical Storm Nate. Reuters.
— Interior Department rejects 25 endangered breed petitions, including several affiliated to altitude change. Washington Post.
— EPA's Scott Pruitt prefers affair with Republicans, aloof not on Mondays. CNN.
— Worker dies at Kentucky coal-fired ability plant. AP.
THAT'S ALL FOR ME!
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** Presented by the National Biodiesel Board: Fabricated from an more assorted mix of assets such as recycled affable oil, soybean oil and beastly fats, biodiesel is a renewable, clean-burning agent backup that can be acclimated in absolute agent engines afterwards modification. Added than 64,000 workers await on biodiesel to abutment their livelihood. What happens to biodiesel affairs to American workers, rural communities and absolute families. But EPA’s latest accomplishments abuse the approaching of those jobs by proposing cuts to the acknowledged Renewable Ammunition Standard. Administrator Pruitt should account the promises fabricated by Admiral Trump. Watch the admiral affiance to assure the RFS here: http://bit.ly/2xn5Sgm **
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