Year-end deal includes major energy, environment wins Source: By Geof Koss, Jeremy Dillon and Emma Dumain, E&E News reporters • Posted: Monday, December 21, 2020
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) at the Capitol this weekend during negotiations on a pandemic and spending package. Francis Chung/E&E News
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While negotiators largely sidelined energy issues during months of stalled talks on COVID-19 relief, a number of significant energy and environmental provisions will hitch a ride on the year-end agreement set to passed yesterday.
House and Senate leaders yesterday announced they had reached a deal on a $1.4 trillion fiscal 2021 spending omnibus, pandemic relief legislation and a number of major items that will ride along. Final text had yet to be released by publication time.