{"id":126779,"date":"2017-08-10T08:21:23","date_gmt":"2017-08-10T13:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126779"},"modified":"2017-08-10T11:53:24","modified_gmt":"2017-08-10T16:53:24","slug":"eerc-roundtable-at-und-epa-administrator-pruitt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=126779","title":{"rendered":"EERC Roundtable at UND, EPA Administrator Pruitt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-126780\" src=\"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/EERCRoundtable-300x193.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/EERCRoundtable-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/EERCRoundtable-272x175.jpg 272w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/EERCRoundtable.jpg 636w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>Grand Forks\u00a0 (CSi) U.S. Rep\u00a0Kevin Cramer, along with Gov. Doug Burgum, Sen John Hoeven, and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, toured UND&#8217;s Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) before sitting down for a round-table discussion in Grand Forks.<\/p>\n<p>The meeting highlighted North Dakota leading the way in energy independence and environmental stewardship through innovation. The group discussed efforts to restore a federalism approach to regulation in rolling back overreaching rules from the past Administration.\u00a0They also heard from experts in the energy field who are actively testing and developing new technologies to produce American energy more efficiently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfter sitting around for nearly four years under the previous Administration\u2019s EPA, Administrator Pruitt\u2019s proposed approval for North Dakota\u2019s state primacy over Class VI injection wells is one of the many ways the new Administration has ushered in states-first, pro-job policies,\u201d Cramer said.\u00a0 \u201cIn the legislative branch I\u2019m working on legislation that is more prescriptive in telling the agencies, like the EPA, what the public policy should be.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Congressman Cramer is sponsoring legislation with Congressman Morgan Griffith to reform the New Source Review (NSR) program for existing electric generating units.\u00a0The EPA has managed the NSR program that has prevented power producers from making reliability and efficiency improvements at existing plants. The legislation would exclude energy efficiency, pollution reduction, and power plant reliability projects from the definition of \u201cmodification\u201d for purposes of the NSR program and enables producers to make those investments.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grand Forks\u00a0 (CSi) U.S. Rep\u00a0Kevin Cramer, along with Gov. Doug Burgum, Sen John Hoeven, and EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt, toured UND&#8217;s Energy and Environmental Research Center (EERC) before sitting down for a round-table discussion in Grand Forks. The meeting highlighted North Dakota leading the way in energy independence and environmental [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":126780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126779"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126801,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126779\/revisions\/126801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}