by Virginia Langmaid | Jan 15, 2020 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Expert testimony on ocean health, emissions and nuclear energy was overshadowed Wednesday by a clash between Republican members and witnesses on the role China and India have to play in addressing global climate change. The House Science, Space and...
by Joshua Irvine | Jan 14, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON -Environmental concerns did not deter the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee from recommending that the Senate pass the United States-Mexico-Canada Agreement. The committee voted 16-4 in support of the USMCA, with mostly Republican senators...
by Virginia Langmaid | Jan 9, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON—The new decade will bring increased youth and social media action protesting climate change, the rise of economic arguments for environmental preservation, and corporate and technological interest in sustainability, the World Resources Institute predicted...
by Janea Wilson | Jan 9, 2020 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON A House energy subcommittee Thursday approved a measure that would renew program to help Native American tribes with energy education, planning and management. The Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Energy sent the measure, for action...
by Leslie Bonilla | Mar 24, 2019 | Environment, Featured
Head to Houston’s Willow Waterhole and you’ll find picturesque marshes dotted with brown reeds and green plants, leaves raised to the sun. Try a little bird-watching, stroll along a trail or enjoy a picnic on the wide expanses of grass. But the 279-acre area is more...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 13, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Americans are increasingly concerned that climate change is both real and manmade, and major fossil fuel industries are heeding the change in public sentiment by investing in green energy. In 2019 alone, BP and Glencore agreed to investor demands to set...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Mar 13, 2019 | Environment, Featured, Topics
WASHINGTON –– A bill to renew a diesel emissions reduction law is one of the few successful climate initiatives with bipartisan support and should get quick congressional approval, senators on the Environment and Public Works committee said Wednesday at a hearing on...
by Leslie Bonilla | Mar 6, 2019 | Environment, Featured, Living
WASHINGTON – Federal regulations are a roadblock to completing federally funded highway projects quickly and cheaply, several senators said Wednesday, but others cautioned against streamlining the process at the expense of environmental protection. Senate Environment...
by Ester Wells | Feb 26, 2019 | Environment
WASHINGTON — Democrats tried to hold a House Natural Resources subcommittee hearing Tuesday on industries’ use of disinformation to deny climate change, but Republicans walked out, saying the topic was beyond the subcommittee’s jurisdiction. The Oversight and...
by Charlotte Walsh | Feb 12, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Transitioning to a clean energy economy is more than just a necessary step to address climate change, Just Energy Director Chandra Farley told lawmakers on Tuesday. According to Farley, it also offers an opportunity to address issues of racial injustice,...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 7, 2019 | Environment, Featured
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., and Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., rolled out their plan for the already famed Green New Deal in a joint resolution and press conference Thursday, calling for net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. The highly anticipated resolution...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Feb 6, 2019 | Environment, Featured
Gov. Charlie Baker, R-Mass., and Gov. Roy Cooper, D-N.C., testified before House lawmakers on Wednesday about the necessity of federal leadership to combat climate change. “Climate change is an existential threat,” said Rep. Joe Neguse, D-Colo., who plans to...
