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7 numbers to know in Biden's budget plan
These figures tell the story of how the administration hopes to focus its climate and clean energy spending in fiscal 2023 as well as where those plans → Read More
5 takeaways from day one of the Jackson hearings
Members of the Senate Judiciary Committee previewed their questions for Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. → Read More
5 things to watch at Jackson's Supreme Court hearings
Senators are expected to ask Ketanji Brown Jackson about environmental cases, administrative law and a host of other issues. → Read More
What's ahead for 'Build Back Better': 4 scenarios
Congress returns this week with President Biden’s social spending and climate package hanging by a thread after Sen. Joe Manchin threw the effort into chaos → Read More
PANDEMIC: House Democrats push greener stimulus as Senate talks lag
Senators continued negotiations into the night on a third coronavirus stimulus bill, as House Democrats injected climate change into the pandemic debate with their own relief package. → Read More
NEWSMAKER: Meet the New Yorker writing the Democrats' climate bill
Rep. Paul Tonko's experience in energy goes back decades to his time in the New York Assembly. He's now playing a leading role in crafting his party's response to the challenge of climate change. → Read More
IMPEACHMENT: 3 energy and environment angles to watch
New documents outlining the case against President Trump mention former Energy Secretary Rick Perry more than a dozen times, but whether Perry will appear is one of several open questions. → Read More
AGENDA: Congress returns to busy fall for energy, environment issues
Lawmakers have a long to-do list for the coming weeks, including reauthorizing key agencies and preventing another government shutdown. → Read More
APPROPRIATIONS: 4 fights to watch as energy, environment bills get votes
House Republican appropriators are poised to push back this week against Democratic spending bills that would reorder the Trump administration's energy and environmental priorities. → Read More
APPROPRIATIONS: 5 questions about the Interior-EPA, Energy-Water bills
House Democrats will show this week how much they intend to use the appropriations process to force the Trump administration's hand on energy and environment issues. → Read More
EPA: 5 takeaways from Wheeler's House appearance
EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler found himself on the defensive yesterday as House Democrats bashed proposals for slashing the agency's budget and warned him against regulatory rollbacks. → Read More
POLITICS: Green New Deal may doom House budget
Concerns about progressive demands could complicate the House taking up a fiscal 2020 budget resolution in coming weeks. → Read More
APPROPRIATIONS: Negotiators release bipartisan spending package
Legislation to fund a host of agencies through the end of the fiscal year -- including EPA and the Interior Department -- may pass Congress as soon as today. → Read More
CONGRESS: 'Nobody could do it like John Dingell could'
Lawmakers today memorialized the life of former House dean John Dingell, touting the Michigan Democrat's record-setting career in public service as well as a long list of legislative victories, including the nation's bedrock environmental laws. → Read More
GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN: Trump demand for 'down payment' clouds truce talks
Senate leaders are continuing talks on a way out of the shutdown impasse, even as congressional Democrats are rejecting President Trump's proposal to reopen the government for three weeks in exchange for a "large down payment" on his border wall. → Read More
HOUSE: Democratic leaders ask Kathy Castor to chair climate panel
Democratic House leaders have tapped Rep. Kathy Castor (D-Fla.) to lead a new committee on climate change in the next Congress, the lawmaker confirmed this morning. → Read More
CLIMATE: Divides harden in clash over global warming committee
Many House Democrats remain skeptical of a push by leadership and progressives to revive the Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, underscoring divisions about how to address climate change in the new Congress. → Read More
APPROPRIATIONS: Democratic takeover may help revive earmarks
Democratic leaders have signaled they would be open to reviving a practice known as legislatively directed spending, but strong obstacles remain. → Read More
POLITICS: Pushed by intern on climate, Ryan turns to talking points
House Speaker Paul Ryan warned today against a "false choice" between economic growth and environmental stewardship, insisting the two can go hand in hand, when asked about criticism that the GOP does not protect the Earth. → Read More
APPROPRIATIONS: Energy and environment fights, deals play out this week
Congress this week will seek to make headway on fiscal 2019 spending bills that cover most of the federal government's energy and environment programs. → Read More