House Approves Omnibus Spending Bill With Environmental, Energy Policy Riders

The House approved a $1.043 trillion, nine-bill omnibus package to fund the federal government for the rest of 2012…

Spending Bill Agreement Retains Language to Restrict EPA, Interior Regulatory Authority

Republicans and Democrats have reached on agreement on retaining policy language that would restrict the regulatory authority of the EPA and the Interior Department in an omnibus spending bill to fund the federal government through the rest of fiscal year 2012…

Senate Passes Spending Bill Restoring Climate Service, Adding Carbon Capture Funding

The Senate approved a fiscal 2012 spending bill Nov. 1 that allots $2 billion for carbon capture and storage projects and restores $161.5 million to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration climate service that had been barred by the House in June…

House Republicans Seek to Deny EPA Use of Appropriated Funds for Climate Programs

The House July 27 approved a measure that would halve funding for the Environmental Protection Agency’s greenhouse gas reporting registry in fiscal year 2012 and another that would transfer $50 million from EPA’s Climate Change Program to the Great Lakes Restoration initiative, two of a series of amendments being offered to a bill (H.R. 2584) to fund EPA and related agencies…

House Panel Moves to Strip EPA Authority Over Greenhouse Gases, Other Pollutants

The House Appropriations Committee July 12 approved the fiscal year 2012 appropriations bill for Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies, with amendments that would prevent the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating mobile sources of greenhouse gas emissions, hazardous air pollutants from cement kilns, fine particulate matter, and nutrients in Florida waters…

House Passes Scaled-Back Bill for Energy Research, Clearing Way for President’s Signature

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The House voted Dec. 21 to approve a slimmed-down version of legislation (H.R. 5116) authorizing research programs within the Department of Energy, clearing the way for…

House Passes Temporary Spending Freeze, Allows Adjustments for Energy Technology

WASHINGTON, D.C.—The House of Representatives Dec. 8 approved a continuing resolution that would freeze spending for discretionary programs in fiscal 2011 but would allow flexibility for the Energy Department to spend more on…

Obama Administration Seen Seeking Restoration of Funding for Department of Energy Loan Program

The Obama administration will attempt to return $3.5 billion in rescinded funding for a Department of Energy loan guarantee program for…

House Passes Bill Rescinding $1.5 Billion in Renewable Energy Loan Guarantee Funding

The House approved legislation Aug. 10 that would provide financial aid to states that would be paid for in part by rescinding $1.5 billion from…

House to Take up Legislation Rescinding $1.5 Billion in Clean Energy Loan Funds

Legislation that would rescind $1.5 billion in Department of Energy clean energy loan funding among other energy-related rescissions is scheduled to go the House floor Aug. 10…

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