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A welcome sign stands outside the U.S. Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina.

Long road to compensation for Camp Lejeune victims takes a turn

By Mike Magner
Posted September 20, 2023 at 11:26am
Rep. Gary Palmer, R-Ala., called the greenhouse gas program a 'slush fund' and offered legislation to repeal it.

Billions for clean energy caught in a partisan tug of war

By Mike Magner
Posted August 4, 2023 at 6:30am
House Energy and Commerce Chair Cathy McMorris Rodgers says the proposed standards will add to the price of buying a car.

GOP readies fight against new fuel economy standards

By Valerie Yurk and Mike Magner
Posted August 1, 2023 at 1:51pm
Automakers contend the Biden administration’s goal of electric vehicles comprising 67 percent of new cars sold by 2032 is not reasonable or achievable.

Nervous automakers await rules pushing them toward EVs

By Mike Magner and Valerie Yurk
Posted July 25, 2023 at 5:30am
President Joe Biden speaks during his June visit to Baylands Nature Preserve in Palo Alto, Calif., to highlight his environment initiatives aimed at helping protect Bay Area wetlands from climate change's rising sea levels.

Republicans take aim at climate funds in spending bills

By Mike Magner
Posted July 11, 2023 at 6:30am
Democratic Sen. Jack Reed and Republican Sen. Susan Collins have introduced environmental literacy legislation dubbed the No Child Left Inside Act.

Bill seeks to teach kids the ‘power of the outdoors’

By Mike Magner
Posted June 8, 2023 at 6:30am
Comedian and activist Jon Stewart spoke to claimant Jerry Ensminger, during a White House signing ceremony for the toxic exposure benefits law in August 2022.

Camp Lejeune health claims are mired despite law allowing suits

By Mike Magner
Posted March 23, 2023 at 6:30am
Alan Shaw, president and CEO of Norfolk Southern Corp., testifies during a Senate Environment and Public Works Committee hearing Thursday.

Norfolk Southern CEO pledges environment, economic restoration at crash site

By Mike Magner
Posted March 9, 2023 at 1:29pm
Sen. Dan Sullivan, R-Alaska, seen at an April hearing of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, has proposed an amendment that would limit legal fees for attorneys in cases stemming from contaminated water at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.

Camp Lejeune amendment backers relent on NDAA vote

By Mike Magner
Posted December 15, 2022 at 4:58pm, Updated at 8:25pm
Rep. Fred Upton poses this month in front of his portrait in the House Energy and Commerce Committee hearing room. The Michigan Republican is retiring.

A moderate in a ‘toxic’ place, Fred Upton says goodbye to Congress

By Mike Magner
Posted December 15, 2022 at 6:15am
President Joe Biden on Wednesday signs a bill to provide health care and disability benefits to veterans who were exposed to toxic substances while deployed overseas.

‘They’ve been killing’ our Marines: Inside the long push to aid Camp Lejeune victims

By Mike Magner
Posted August 11, 2022 at 11:31am
Comedian and activist Jon Stewart speaks during a rally on Aug. 1 to call on the Senate to pass a bill to expand health care benefits for veterans sickened due to toxic exposure, including to burn pits, they experienced while deployed. It would also allow victims of poisoning at Camp Lejeune to sue the government for compensation, the subject of this week's Political Theater podcast.

Camp Lejeune tragedy moves closer to justice

By Todd Ruger and Mike Magner
Posted August 5, 2022 at 9:00am
Gravestones at the Jacksonville city cemetery near Camp Lejeune, N.C., for the three daughters of Nancy "Catherine" Daniels. All died at birth when she lived at Camp Lejeune during a period when the water was contaminated with toxic chemicals related to U.S. military activity.

Long push for Camp Lejeune toxic water lawsuits clears Congress

By Mike Magner
Posted August 2, 2022 at 9:56am
Two tiger brothers relax at the Wild Animal Sanctuary on April 1, 2020 in Kennesburg, Colorado after their rescue from Joe Exotic's Greater Wynnewood Animal Park in Florida.

Bill to declaw ‘big cat’ breeders heading to the Senate

By Mike Magner
Posted August 1, 2022 at 2:37pm
Democratic presidential candidate and former Vice President Joe Biden has highlighted his Irish heritage in the past.

Could Joe Biden give a boost to an Irish American museum?

By Mike Magner
Posted March 17, 2020 at 6:00am
Sandra Alcala, a third-generation Mexican American from San Antonio, is director of member services for the House Democratic Caucus. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Who staffs the most diverse Congress ever? Sandra Alcala, for one

By Mike Magner
Posted June 25, 2019 at 7:00am
The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, center left, with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil-rights protesters in the 1960s.(Courtesy O’Malley Creadon Productions)

How Father Ted outdid Forrest Gump

By Mike Magner
Posted May 15, 2019 at 5:00am
The Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, center left, with Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil-rights protesters in the 1960s.(Courtesy O’Malley Creadon Productions)

Movie night: The Catholic priest who shepherded civil rights

By Mike Magner and Toula Vlahou
Posted May 14, 2019 at 4:28pm
Protesters descend on Washington on Jan. 20, 2018, as they arrive for the Women's March one year after the inauguration of President Donald Trump. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Grassroots Have Grown Deeper Since Trump. Now Comes the Hard Part

By Jonathan Miller and Mike Magner
Posted November 1, 2018 at 5:02am
Protesters call for higher taxes on big banks in 2012. (Neilson Barnard/Getty Images file photo)

Wall Street Regulator Coddles Big Banks but Clobbers Small Firms

By Mike Magner
Posted June 21, 2018 at 11:12am
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Podcast: Troubled Climate for Trump’s First Earth Day

By David Hawkings and Jeremy Dillon and Mike Magner
Posted April 19, 2017 at 3:23pm
The question of where we are going with the National Mall — and how much Americans are willing to pay for it — is a long way from being answered. (CQ Roll Call file photo)

The National Mall Faces Crises of Funding and Identity

By Mike Magner
Posted October 11, 2016 at 6:00am