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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’ infrastructure lobbying plan. GET THE LEAD OUT: White House says bipartisan deal will get rid of...

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 unemployment and the structural reality of systemic racism. Big crises require big investments.   ...

© 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 Hill the organization is particularly pleased with the legislation’s provisions on rail transportat...

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 that more can be done to improve the international trade system to account for shared challenges su...

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 hasn't been much change in the trajectory of either US Covid metric: new cases continue to increase at a modest pace, while...