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...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 30, 2019 | Environment, Featured
As climate change increases the frequency and severity of natural disasters, experts predict that the effects of hurricanes, floods, and other disasters will be much worse for low-income communities. Houston’s Manchester neighborhood is a symbol of the problem. On one...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 16, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Democrats on the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works criticized acting EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler over his ties to the coal industry, his support for loosening mercury regulations and what they considered lackluster support for...
by Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff | Jan 10, 2019 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – House Democrats, joined by 10 Republicans voted Thursday to pass a bill that would fund the Department of Agriculture and the Food and Drug Administration, which have been shut down for nearly three weeks, though the measure is unlikely to get Senate...
by Rhytha Zahid Hejaze | Apr 18, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – Washington state argued to the Supreme Court on Wednesday that replacing hundreds of stream culverts blocking salmon migration is onerous and too expensive. In the 1850s, the federal government signed the Stevens Treaties with Indian tribes, granting them...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 21, 2018 | Environment, Featured
Environment Reporter Ben Trachtenberg visits the United States Botanic Garden to learn about ways it is helping to teach sustainable gardening and landscaping across the...
by Ben Trachtenberg | Mar 20, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON— Energy Secretary Rick Perry faced tough questions on proposed funding for oil drilling in the Arctic, renewable energy and security of the energy grid Tuesday during a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing on the Trump administration’s 2019...
