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Legal debate over SEC’s authority clouds climate rule proposal
Critics of the SEC say the agency is overreaching its authority in proposing standards for climate emissions.
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Critics of the SEC say the agency is overreaching its authority in proposing standards for climate emissions.
At a budget hearing last week, EPA Administrator Michael S.
“Air pollution doesn’t stop at the state line,” Michael S. Regan, the EPA administrator, said in a statement.
Biden's climate agenda is moving in fits and starts as the U.S. is on track to miss the carbon reduction goals his administration set.
Martin Luther King Jr.’s solemn holiday.
Administrator Michael S. Regan announced the standards during an event in the EPA courtyard, flanked by several electric vehicles and joined by clean air advocates.
EPA Administrator Michael S. Regan is already on the road in Louisiana, and other top officials have trips planned for infrastructure-related events into Thanksgiving week.
President Joe Biden faces a new climate challenge as the Supreme Court could upend the EPA's power to regulate carbon emissions.
Ending the use of chlorpyrifos on food will help to ensure children, farmworkers, and all people are protected from the potentially dangerous consequences of this pesticide,” Administrator Michael S.
Meanwhile, the 4,000-page report from the U.N.’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which noted the especially damaging contribution of methane emissions in warming the planet, provided a
Individual senators’ holds on bipartisan amendments slowed debate on a nearly $1 trillion infrastructure bill Tuesday.
President Joe Biden on Wednesday will outline a wide swath of changes to investing in the U.S. infrastructure system.
That 40 percent figure is in line with a Senate resolution (S Res 43) Sen. Edward J.
PFAS contamination may be larger than previously understood after the EPA found they have been leaching from storage containers into a pesticide.
Donald S. Beyer Jr., D-Va., said in a statement Tuesday that the new rule would weaken the scientific foundations of the agency’s public health regulations.
Awaiting Biden's climate team is a planet even warmer than it was four years ago, spawning evermore devastating hurricanes and wildfires.
The panel passed its reauthorization bill (S 2302) in July 2019, but that legislation never passed the full Senate.
Roberts Jr.’s opinion in NFIB v. Sebelius, which upheld the ACA but found states couldn’t be forced to expand Medicaid under the law.
A Democratic senator demanded that the EPA administrator apologize for regulatory actions and rollbacks that the lawmaker said make the pandemic worse.
The group spent less than $5,000 on lobbying during the first three months of this year, and in Q4 2019 and down from the $20,000 it spent in 2019’s first quarter.