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Platts Energy Podium provides an opportunity for newsmakers and credentialed reporters to discuss current energy issues. These events will be recorded and aired via podcasts available on platts.com and iTunes. Platts publicizes the events via the AP and other daybooks as well as in e-mails to reporters in the Washington area.

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Upcoming speakers

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson

Speaker: Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson
Date: Monday, May 19, 2008
Time: 10:00 am (EST)
Venue: McGraw-Hill/Platts Washington office, 1200 G St., NW, Ste. 1000


Please join Platts reporters and other credentialed journalists as Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Stephen Johnson discusses major energy-related environmental issues. A scientist and 27-year veteran of EPA, Mr. Johnson has been the agency's administrator since 2005. EPA is playing a key role in crafting several major energy-related initiatives, including a rule for implementing a renewable-fuels standard that requires the US to manufacture 36 billion gallons of ethanol and other non-petroleum biofuels annually by 2022. On the issue of climate change, EPA is exploring how greenhouse gas emissions from power plants, oil refineries and other industrial facilities might be regulated under the federal Clean Air Act. EPA is also involved in the realm of nuclear energy by crafting standards that govern the amount of radiation that can emanate from the planned Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in Nevada.

Recent speakers

Representative Rick Boucher

Speaker: Representative Rick Boucher
Date: Tuesday, March 11, 2008
Time: 10:00 am (EST)
Venue: McGraw-Hill/Platts Washington office, 1200 G St., NW, Ste. 1000
Podcast:
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Platts reporters and other credentialed press congregated as Representative Rick Boucher discussed plans for climate change legislation and other major energy and environmental initiatives in Congress. The Virginia Democrat is the chairman of the House Energy and Air Quality Subcommittee, which is developing legislation for mandatory greenhouse gas controls. His panel has also been active in promoting alternatives to petroleum for transportation and energy efficiency as a means of reducing consumption. He was elected to the House in 1982 from Virginia's ninth district in the southwest area of the state.