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Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez listens as Sen. Ed Markey speaks as Democrats announce their Green New Deal resolution outside of the Capitol on Thursday. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Democrats unveil Green New Deal that would push government to make radical changes

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted February 7, 2019 at 11:15am
Rep. Paul Tonko is chairman of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

After delay, House Democrats to begin climate push

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted February 5, 2019 at 10:13am
Clean energy advocates demonstrate in Washington, D.C., in March 2009. Progressive proposals featured in various expressions of the Green New Deal are likely to drive deeper partisan divisions and diminish the chances for real action, Grumet writes. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

It’s time for a Green ‘True’ Deal

By Jason Grumet
Posted February 4, 2019 at 5:02am
An overview of a coal prep plant outside the city of Welch in rural West Virginia on May 19, 2017, in Welch, West Virginia. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

Coal industry fought black lung tax as disease rates rose

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted January 25, 2019 at 11:15am
White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders answers a question during the daily briefing at the White House December 11, 2017 in Washington, DC. (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Sarah Huckabee Sanders dismisses Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on climate change

By Emily Kopp
Posted January 23, 2019 at 8:55am
Demonstrators were removed from the confirmation hearing for Andrew Wheeler, President Trump’s pick to lead the EPA. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call)

Protesters disrupt EPA confirmation hearing, held despite shutdown

By Katherine Tully-McManus
Posted January 16, 2019 at 11:43am
The EPA had planned by March to complete a rule easing tailpipe emission standards. Now that timeline could be in doubt. Above, Alex Gromov puts a probe into the tailpipe of a car as he performs a smog check in San Rafael, California, in 2017. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images file photo)

Shutdown ties up Trump’s fossil fuel agenda

By Elvina Nawaguna
Posted January 10, 2019 at 2:30pm
Michigan Democratic Sen. Debbie Stabenow and Republican Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, leaders of the Senate Agriculture Committee, helped shepherd the farm bill to passage. (Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Even at Farm Bill Signing, For Trump It’s All About the Wall

By Ellyn Ferguson and John T. Bennett
Posted December 20, 2018 at 4:05pm
White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the White House might go along with the Senate plan “as long as we can couple that with other funding resources that would help us get to the $5 billion.” (Sarah Silbiger/CQ Roll Call file photo)

White House: Trump Willing to Use Other Funds for Wall to Get Deal

By Niels Lesniewski
Posted December 18, 2018 at 10:53am
Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers, R-Wash., leaves a meeting of the House Republican Conference in the Capitol on Nov. 28. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call file photo)

Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers ‘Not Interested’ in Interior Post

By Emily Kopp
Posted December 17, 2018 at 9:11am