by Jorja Siemons | Mar 3, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices stumbled this week when hearing arguments about the most impactful environmental case in a generation. The problem, in part, is that the case concerns nothing. “There isn’t really anything for the Supreme Court to consider,” said...
by Charlotte Varnes | Feb 17, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Changes to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program could lead to wide-ranging economic impacts like increased gas prices and shutdowns of small refineries, experts told lawmakers during a Senate Environment and Public Works...
by Samantha Aguilar | Feb 15, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON —Four years after Congress reauthorized the EPA’s brownfields program, House lawmakers met with city and county officials from across the country to discuss what can be changed before the next reauthorization deadline in 2023. ”How can we sustain this level...
by Jorja Siemons | Feb 15, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Clean hydrogen fuel’s versatility and flexibility makes it foundational to a clean energy transition, experts told lawmakers, including clean hydrogen enthusiast Joe Manchin, at a Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources hearing Thursday. “It...
by Samantha Aguilar | Feb 9, 2022 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Senate Republicans on Tuesday used an Interior Department nomination hearing to criticize the Biden administration’s role in validating new oil and gas leases. “We have higher energy prices here because this administration has kind of led an effort to...
by Samantha Aguilar | Feb 9, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The valuation process needed to acquire land under the Land and Water Conservation Fund has become increasingly and unreasonably time consuming, both Republican and Democratic senators said during a Senate hearing on Wednesday. “Appraisals that literally...
by Charlotte Varnes | Feb 8, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON –– Advocates called for renewed funding for American waterways, ports and ecosystems and continued work with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers during a House hearing on Tuesday. “Water infrastructure is central to prosperity in California and the West, and...
by Samantha Aguilar | Feb 3, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Inadequate funding and unclear responsibilities have slowed the return of Native American remains and cultural objects to traditional caretakers, experts and lawmakers agreed during a hearing on Wednesday. “After more than three decades of [the Native...
by Jorja Siemons | Feb 2, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON –– Increasing availability of composting and recycling programs benefits both the climate and economy, experts said Wednesday at a Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works hearing. “The U.S. spends $218 billion a year, growing, processing, and...
by Jorja Siemons | Jan 27, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The House Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition (SEEC) launched three task forces confronting the climate crisis Wednesday. “There isn’t one silver bullet to solve the current climate crisis, but through innovation and bold action we may yet be...
by Samantha Aguilar | Jan 20, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Climate experts urged skeptical lawmakers Thursday to consider the environmental impact of new oil and gas lease sales in the Gulf of Mexico. “I want you all to remember that economic gain does not outweigh the devastation we are feeling right now,”...
by Jorja Siemons | Jan 19, 2022 | Environment, Featured
Rallying ambition within the private sector to fund zero-emission technologies is key to climate change mitigation, leaders said at a World Economic Forum meeting held virtually on Wednesday. “I think most of us feel very strongly that no government in the world has...
