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US House Members Introduce Bipartisan Disapproval Resolution to Block EPA Regulation of GHG; Mirrors Murkowski Resolution

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US Senators Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) and Blanche Lincoln (D-Ark.) When Congress passed the Clean Air Act, it never gave EPA the explicit authority to regulate greenhouse gas emissions for the purpose of stopping global climate change. Tags: Climate Change Emissions Policy. 26, in the US Senate. Earlier post.).

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Going with the talent flow

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Barnhart was responsible a range of clean energy legislation, including including statutes granting apartment renters and condominium owners the right to install electric charging stations in parking areas so long as they paid for the equipment and installation. A former state transportation coordinator in Alaska, Loeb launched ‘rEV UP!’

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Proposed 2018 Trump budgets cuts EPA funding 31.4%, DOE 5.6%, DOT 12.7%, NSF 10.7%

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Δ Clean Air and Global Climate Change. Supports Categorical Grants with $597 million, a $482-million reduction below 2017 annualized CR levels. This grant program is authorized at an annual average of $900 million through 2020. (Health and Human Services faces the largest dollar cut: $12.7 billion, or 16.2%).

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Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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Markey of Massachusetts, both Democrats, built their climate change bill last year in large measure around it. As Senators Graham, Kerry and Lieberman try to resuscitate the climate change bill by introducing a revised bill in mid-to-late April, twenty-three U.S. Representatives Henry A. Waxman of California and Edward J.

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