Category: National News

Republicans, Democrats Fight Over $20 Billion ‘National Climate Bank’

Lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy & Commerce sparred over billions in funding “relating to air pollution,” defined to include carbon and carbon dioxide, with the many climate- and environment-related provisions including new electric vehicle incentives as well as $20 billion toward a “greenhouse gas reduction fund,” which Republicans called a “National Climate Bank.”…


Republicans, Democrats Spar Over $20 Billion ‘National Climate Bank’

Lawmakers on the House Committee on Energy & Commerce have begun debate over billions in funding “relating to air pollution,” defined to include carbon and carbon dioxide, with the many climate- and environment-related provisions—including new electric vehicle incentives—as well as $20 billion toward a “greenhouse gas reduction fund,” which Republicans called a “national climate bank.”…


Former Trump EPA Official Questions Court Order Striking Down Key Water Rule

On Aug. 30, Judge Rosemary Márquez of the U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona, an Obama administration appointee, remanded and vacated the Trump administration’s 2020 Navigable Waters Protection Rule (NWPR), drawing criticism from a former Trump Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) official and Senate Republicans. The NWPR had replaced the Obama administration’s 2015 Clean…