10:00 a.m. | 406 Dirksen Senate Office Building | Washington, D.C.

BACKGROUND: U.S. Senator Tom Carper (D-Del.), Chairman of the Subcommittee on Clean Air and Nuclear Safety, will convene a hearing to review U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) federal safeguards replacing the Clean Air Interstate Rule (CAIR) and the Clean Air Mercury Rule (CAMR). The Subcommittee will review upcoming EPA electric utility air pollution requirements to address transport pollution and air toxics.

WHEN:
Thursday, June 30, 2011
10:00 AM ET

LOCATION:
EPW Hearing Room
406 Dirksen Senate Office Building
Washington, DC

WEBCAST:
Webcast will be available at http://epw.senate.gov starting at 10:00 AM ET

WITNESSES:
(Order subject to change)

Panel I:

The Honorable Gina McCarthy
Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, US Environmental Protection Agency

Panel II:

Mr. Collin P. O’Mara
Secretary, Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control for the State of Delaware

Chairman Bryan W. Shaw, Ph.D.
Texas Commission on Environmental Quality

Ms. Sue Tierney
Managing Principal, Analysis Group, Inc.

Ms. Barbara Walz
Sr. Vice President Policy and Environmental, Tri-State Generation and Transmission Association, Inc.

Dr. David O. Carpenter, M.D.
Director, Institute for Health and the Environment, University at Albany

For more information or to watch a live webcast of the hearing, please click here.