EPA starts doling out green bank cash
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Biden EPA Cuts Big Check For Pro-Defund The Police Activists To Pursue ‘Climate Justice’ For Convicts
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is sending up to $3 million to activist groups that advocate for cutting police budgets and closing prisons to pursue “climate justice” for incarcerated people and “reentry communities.” The Ella Baker Center for Human Rights (Baker Center) and the Insight Garden Program chosen It will receive $1 million to $3 […]
House Republicans pass bill cutting EPA funding by 20 percent
House Republicans on Wednesday passed what is expected to be the final government funding bill before the August recess, proposing deep cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency’s budget for fiscal year 2025. Department of the Interior and EPA annual budget bills passed The bill, which passed late Wednesday, was approved by a vote of 210 […]
House passes Interior bill with steep cuts to EPA
The House passed a partisan appropriation bill Wednesday for the Interior Department, the Environmental Protection Agency, and other related agencies. The measure, which passed 210 to 205, would impose a 20% cut to the EPA and includes several conservative provisions that are likely to doom it in the Senate. The fiscal 2025 spending bill proposes […]
Lawmakers pen letter to EPA over concerns of proposed clean power plant's impact on grid
A group of 26 Republican lawmakers, led by Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-PA), sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan expressing concerns about the impact of the Clean Power Plan 2.0, which would set new emissions standards for coal, oil and gas-fired power plants. “The final rule targets coal and new natural […]
Lawmakers warn EPA its ‘Clean Power Plan 2.0’ could have ‘catastrophic’ effect on electric grid
First appeared on FOX: Twenty-six members of Congress sent a letter to Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan warning him and the agency not to implement the Clean Power Plan 2.0. Rep. Lloyd Smucker (R-Pa.) wrote a letter to the administrator predicting that the rules outlined in the plan would jeopardize the reliability of the […]
EPA Chief Says ‘We Don’t Have An EV Mandate’ Months After Finalizing Rules That Mandate More EVs
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Michael Regan said on Wednesday that the Biden administration has not imposed an electric vehicle (EV) mandate despite recently finalizing policies that will effectively require large increases in EV production. Regan made the remark during a Wednesday appearance in front of the House Oversight and Accountability Committee on Capitol Hill […]
Corn growers join lawsuit against EPA for emissions mandates
(The Center Square) – Several U.S. oil and corn industry lobbying groups are suing the Biden administration over its plans to drastically cut global-warming substances from car and truck exhaust. The coalition argues that regulations would cause economic harm. Dave Roos, director of biofuels for the Illinois Corn Growers Association, said higher-octane fuels could be […]
Biden’s EPA faces lawsuit over new emission standards: ‘Forcing a switch’
The American Petroleum Institute, along with a coalition of energy and trucking groups, recently filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency to block new emissions standards. The groups filed a lawsuit Thursday in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit challenging the EPA’s finalized emissions standards for light-duty and medium-duty […]
In first, EPA union endorses Biden
Energy and Environment Full text Groups urge FEMA to recognize heat wave, wildfire smoke as ‘major disasters’ A coalition of environmental, labor and health care groups has called on the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to classify extreme heat and wildfire smoke as “major disasters” and provide federal funding to states during these weather […]