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Democrats on the House Energy and Commerce Committee spent hours Tuesday evening torching Republicans’ efforts to use their sweeping party-line bill to roll back billions of dollars for clean energy and environment programs while boosting fossil fuels.
The markup of the committee’s portion of the GOP megabill — which was still going Wednesday morning — saw Democrats push a barrage of amendments aimed at provisions that would repeal funding for climate initiatives and allow natural gas producers to pay to expedite project approvals.
EPA on Wednesday asked an appellate court to block a judge’s injunction that halted its termination of almost $17 billion in climate grants.
The brawl over the fate of certain clean energy tax credits is set to escalate as congressional Republicans draw new lines in the sand and the White House steps up its pressure on GOP leaders to gut the credits for savings.
180 Democrats, including Senate and House Minority Leaders Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) and Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) sent a letter to EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin on Wednesday blasting t
More than two-thirds of all congressional Democrats signed onto a letter Wednesday slamming EPA Administrator Lee Zeldin for his efforts to roll back environmental regulations, cancel renewable energy grants and purge hundreds of agency employees.
APRIL SHOWERS BRING....: The legal battle over EPA’s efforts to rescind $20 billion under the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund will heat up again next month. Three nonprofit groups seeking access to their federal climate grants have agreed with EPA on a briefing schedule that will get the matter before a judge in early April, teeing up a decision potentially later in the month.
Lawmakers who are a part of Congress’ largest renewable energy and environment-focused coalition are urging the Trump administration to release $20 billion in Biden-era climate grants that EPA is working to claw back.
GREENWIRE | Top Democratic lawmakers on energy and the environment will skip President Donald Trump’s address to Congress on Tuesday.
Sen. Martin Heinrich of New Mexico, ranking member of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, announced Tuesday morning he would pass on the event. Heinrich is the highest-ranking energy-adjacent Democrat to announce a boycott so far.
“I’m not going to President Trump's Joint Address tonight,” Heinrich said. “I'll start attending when he starts following the law.”
"IT'S CHAOS, AND THAT'S THE POINT": The status of funding for several EPA programs that both Red and Blue districts across the country are banking on remains up in the air, despite the agency’s own directive to keep money flowing.
A House Democratic caucus pilloried President Donald Trump’s first set of executive actions, accusing him of working to “gut our bedrock pollution and environmental protections.”
But in a multipage letter filled with both bullet points and outrage, the leaders of the Sustainable Energy and Environment Coalition offered something of an olive branch.