by Kunjal Bastola | Dec 18, 2023 | Environment, Featured
Environmentalists are raising alarms about the environmental harms of a proposed 20-mile stretch of border wall construction in the lower Rio Grande valley that experts say will intensify flooding in an area that is already flood prone. President Biden recently...
by Kunjal Bastola | Dec 11, 2023 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – With the presidential election less than a year away, some voters are apprehensive about the future of climate policy. Many young climate activists have mixed feelings on President Biden’s climate progress, citing the Inflation Reduction Act as a win,...
by Kunjal Bastola | Dec 7, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Congress believed it delayed fights over funding the wide-ranging Farm Bill by working in a one-year extension in the temporary budget deal in November. In reality, the debate over the biggest component of the bill – providing money for food and nutrition...
by Kunjal Bastola | Nov 28, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science, Living
WASHINGTON – Doctors and medical experts on Tuesday called on lawmakers to take a public health approach to the gun violence epidemic they say is plaguing the United States. Since 2020, guns have become the number one cause of death for children and teenagers,...
by Kunjal Bastola | Nov 9, 2023 | Featured, Health & Science
WASHINGTON – Tribal leaders called on lawmakers to enhance tribal law enforcement authority and implement further behavioral health interventions to address the fentanyl crisis at a Senate oversight hearing on Wednesday. The hearing held by the Senate Indian Affairs...
by Kunjal Bastola | Nov 1, 2023 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON – Climate experts warned lawmakers about the effect of climate change on extreme weather during the first-ever congressional hearing on extreme event attribution, a field of climate science. They offered solutions to help Congress navigate more frequent and...
by Kunjal Bastola | Oct 31, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – The Supreme Court debated Tuesday whether two school board officials violated parents’ First Amendment rights after they blocked the parents from posting on their personal social media accounts in a case that wades into questions about regulations in a...
by Kunjal Bastola | Oct 26, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – “I’ll show you what I dug out of one [camel] skeleton,” said marine scientist Marcus Eriksen as he unearthed a roughly 40-pound mass that he estimated held 2,000 plastic bags. Eriksen’s display came as he and other experts testified on potential...
by Kunjal Bastola | Oct 26, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Native leaders expressed frustration with the implementation of the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act (IIJA) and Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), citing a lack of communication and technical assistance from the federal government. A roundtable held by...
by Kunjal Bastola | Oct 19, 2023 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – A House oversight hearing on Wednesday became a lightning rod for partisan criticism on immigration, with Republicans using the forum to ostensibly showcasing their concern for how the Biden administration border policies have led to environmental...
by Kunjal Bastola | Oct 12, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – House Republicans on Thursday zeroed in on the District of Columbia’s rising crime rates to portray Democrats as being soft on crime, while Democrats asserted that the hearing was called to “distract and mislead the American people.” Members of Congress...
by Kunjal Bastola | Oct 4, 2023 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON – Debates on appropriations for the Legislative Branch, which funds that part of the government for the upcoming year, were halted as the House of Representatives went into recess after former Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was ousted on Tuesday...
