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  MONDAY AGAIN! Welcome to Overnight Energy, your source for the day’s energy and environment news.Please send tips and comments to Rachel Frazin at rfrazin@thehill.com . Follow her on Twitter: @RachelFrazin . Reach Zack Budryk at zbudryk@thehill.com or follow him at @BudrykZack .  Today We’re looking at lead removal provisions in the bipartisan infrastructure deal, the House Appropriations Committee’s fiscal 2022 budget request for the EPA and Interior Department, and environmentalists...

A high-stakes fight is afoot over the size of President Biden Right now, hanging in the balance are the livelihoods of over 15 million unemployed workers, the security of communities facing this year’s intensifying droughts and hurricanes, and the health of Black, Indigenous and Latinx families in pollution hotspots who deserve clean air and water.  Compromise is part of political reality. But you cannot negotiate with the physical reality of the climate crisis, the economic reality of mass ...

© Greg Nash Environmental advocates are hopeful that parts of the White House’s multitrillion-dollar infrastructure package’s sustainability measures can gain traction with lawmakers in Congress despite GOP claims that they fall outside the definition of infrastructure. Advocates have long called expansion of rail infrastructure a major opportunity to reduce the environmental impact of transportation and improve its sustainability. Sierra Club legislative director Melinda Pierce told The H...

Greening U.S. Trade Policy On March 17, Ambassador Katherine Tai was confirmed as U.S. Trade Representative by the Senate by a unanimous vote. During the confirmation process, Ambassador Tai emphasized the important role U.S. trade policy can play in protecting the environment and contributing to collective solutions to the climate crisis. U.S. trade agreements, including the recently enacted U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement, have sought to advance environmental goals, but there is little question...

Environmental News For The Week Ending 03 April 2019 This is a collection of interesting news articles about the environment and related topics published last week. This is usually a Tuesday evening regular post at GEI (but can be posted at other times). Please share this article - Go to very top of page, right hand side, for social media buttons. Note: Because of the high volume of news regarding the coronavirus outbreak, that news has been published separately: There hasnt been much change ...

“On the whole, this proposal is a victory for our movement, and a real result of the power we’ve built over the past few years,” Ellen Sciales, press secretary for the Sunrise Movement, told The Hill. ADVERTISEMENT But environmentalists are worried that what they see now might look different as legislation moves through Congress, particularly with a razor-thin majority for Democrats in the Senate. It’s also no guarantee that moderate Democrats like Sen. Joe Manchin A recent ruling by th...

PolitiFacts ruling: Mostly False Heres why: Republican opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal has been swift and vocal. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that as written, the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released March 31 was a nonstarter. The conservative PAC Citizens United put Biden’s plan in the same boat as the Green New Deal, a sweeping environmental and social justice agenda that Republicans have condemned. "Does this sound like an infrastructure...

Fact-check: Is Bidens infrastructure plan the Green New Deal? By Jon Greenberg, PolitiFact.com Replay Video PolitiFacts ruling: Mostly False Heres why: Republican opposition to President Joe Biden’s infrastructure proposal has been swift and vocal. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell said that as written, the $2.3 trillion American Jobs Plan released March 31 was a nonstarter. The conservative PAC Citizens United put Biden’s plan in the same boat as the Green New Deal,...

Joe Biden’s infrastructure plan would take on the wreckage of drilling and mining But it will take more than the $16 billion Biden offered Share this story In Pittsburgh this week, Joe Biden unveiled a new infrastructure plan that will serve as the centerpiece for his economic agenda. Spending $2 trillion over eight years, the sweeping plan includes a wide range of measures, from building out electric vehicle charging stations to de-leading municipal water mains. As part of the plan, Biden wa...

And Biden plans a raft of executive actions to undo Trump's environmental policies.