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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.
Democrats who woke up to an avalanche of executive orders from President Donald Trump Tuesday morning are scrambling to strike back against the White House’s new fossil fuel-focused "energy dominance" regime.
A bipartisan House bill introduced Wednesday would require NOAA Fisheries to conduct new research on whales to provide more accurate information about their core feeding and calving habitats as well as migration patterns.
House Speaker Mike Johnson has made clear he supports taking a “scalpel,” not a “sledgehammer,” to the Democrats’ 2022 climate law.
But as the prospect of doing away with billions of dollars of energy and climate subsidies in the Inflation Reduction Act in the next Congress is looking closer to becoming a reality, GOP lawmakers — and business groups with a stake in that funding — are amplifying concerns that such an effort would be misguided.
Democrats and their environment-minded allies are facing a narrowing window to halt Republican plans to roll back gains made in the last four years.
After losing Democratic control of the Senate and watching Vice President Kamala Harris concede her race for the White House to former President Donald Trump, the focus now is on the House to see whether Democrats can eke out a narrow majority to prevent a GOP governing “trifecta” in Washington.