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June 05, 2023
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The partisan divide was clearly visible at the House Energy panel's first hearing, but witnesses suggested they might find common ground on permitting “reform.”
When congressional Democrats first introduced the Climate Leadership and Environmental Action for our Nation’s (CLEAN) Future Act in January 2020, it was already a mammoth 622 pages long. But the updated version of the bill before the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change now weighs in...
In letters issued Wednesday, a bipartisan group of lawmakers from the U.S. House of Representatives’ Energy and Commerce Committee requested an update from heads of several federal agencies — including Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm — on their response to last year’s SolarWinds cyberattack. Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm | Department of...
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations spent nearly three hours Wednesday questioning former EPA administrators and others about what Congress can do to revitalize the agency, just before the Senate confirmed its newest leader, Michael Regan. Rep. Frank Pallone (D-N.J.) | House Committee on Energy &...
President Biden’s early directives on environmental justice do not go far enough, Kerene Tayloe, director of legislative affairs for WE ACT for Environmental Justice, told a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee Tuesday. Rather than just receiving a update from Biden, Tayloe said, President Bill Clinton’s 27-year-old Executive Order 12898 should...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. Grid modernization and security were the focus of two U.S. House of Representatives committees last week as four bipartisan bills cleared the Energy and Commerce Committee and a second panel held hearings on two other legislative proposals. The House SST Committee's Energy Subcommittee held hearings on...
By Rich Heidorn Jr. WASHINGTON — Tom Hassenboehler used to work for Sen. James Inhofe, the Oklahoma Republican who famously brought a snowball to the floor of the Senate in 2015 to make the case that the Earth couldn’t be warming. Has the level of debate improved since then? Yes,...
By Michael Brooks WASHINGTON — Having regained control of the House of Representatives after eight years in the minority, Democrats have put a lot on their plate, including investigating President Trump’s finances and Russian interference in the 2016 presidential election. But last week, House Democrats added climate change to their...