by Minghe Hu | Jul 31, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON – A House energy subcommittee is pushing legislation to require the Energy Department to lease some of the Strategic Petroleum Reserve facilities to companies or foreign governments and use the profits to update old equipment and infrastructure. The...
by Shelby Fleig | Jun 1, 2018 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — Federal funding for programs that aim to reduce the effects of climate change increased by $4.4 billion from 2010 through 2017, according to the Office of Management and Budget. But a congressional watchdog said this week that OMB is exaggerating...
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by Caroline Tanner | May 16, 2018 | Environment
WASHINGTON – A Capitol Hill hearing called to discuss the use of technology to address climate change quickly veered into a long-running debate about how much human activity has contributed to the country’s warming temperature. Chairman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) warned of...
by Shelby Fleig | May 11, 2018 | Environment, Science + Technology
WASHINGTON — Solar power is now the third most popular renewable energy source, behind water and wind, according to a new report by the U.S. Energy Information Administration. The latest example of its continued growth came Wednesday when the California Energy...
by Shelby Fleig | Apr 27, 2018 | Environment, Politics
WASHINGTON — A House Appropriations subcommittee grilled U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Scott Pruitt Thursday afternoon on his deregulation agenda and spending habits. Even though Pruitt is under fire amid a number of ethics scandals —...
by Shelby Fleig | Apr 20, 2018 | Environment
WASHINGTON – Congress should end a practice that puts the federal or state government at risk of paying for expensive coal mine cleanups when mining companies go bankrupt, according to a new finding by the nonpartisan Government Accountability Office. The GAO,...
