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by Isabel Miller | Feb 28, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court on Monday considered an Obama administration regulation to regulate carbon emissions from existing power plants. Coal companies and several Republican states, led by West Virginia, want to limit the Clean Power Plan from 2015 that never...
by Julia Shapero | Feb 24, 2022 | Business & Tech, Featured
Mike Fong’s interest in public service may have begun with a fruitcake. Every year during the holidays, Fong’s great grandfather, Jack Eng, who lived in Spokane, would hand-deliver a fruitcake to his congressman, Tom Foley. Foley – who spent 30 years representing...
by Annie Klingenberg | Feb 22, 2022 | Featured, Politics
WASHINGTON, D.C. (KVRR) — The Senate National Parks subcommittee met earlier this week to review the implementation of the bipartisan Great American Outdoors act which was signed into law almost 18 months ago. This law created a national fund intended to tackle...
by Courtney Degen | Feb 22, 2022 | Environment, Featured
WASHINGTON — The Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, a federally funded research center led by UW-Madison, would receive an additional $5 million in funding each year through 2026 from legislation that passed the House earlier this month but still faces...
by Cristobella Durrette | Feb 22, 2022 | Environment, Featured
The Beijing 2022 Olympics wrap up this weekend, but construction and artificial snow use in the alpine and sliding sports competitions in Zhangjiakou and Yanqing could create long-term changes to the areas’ ecosystems. Before the world’s top winter athletes took to...
by Emily Anderson Stern | Feb 21, 2022 | Politics
WASHINGTON — A bill intended to hold social media platforms accountable for posts that exploit children, but has been criticized for its potential to harm online privacy, has passed its first hurdle to getting a future vote in the Senate. The EARN IT Act, first...
