A House panel approved a bill on Wednesday implementing drastic spending cuts for the EPA along with provisions blocking its rule-making. “The House Interior and Environment appropriations bill would cut EPA funding by $718 million, or 9 percent, next year and block a handful of environmental rules the agency is looking to put out this… Keep reading →
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Energy News Roundup: House Cuts EPA Budget, FERC Approve PJM Proposal & Conservatives Convincing Republicans Over Climate Change
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By William R. Devine, Barry Epstein, Emily L. Murray, Patrick A. Perry | Allen Matkins Leck Gamble Mallory & Natsis LLPThe House and Senate return this week from the annual Memorial Day recess for a four-week work period that runs through June. Both chambers then break for one week for Independence Day. After that, the House is scheduled to be in session for four weeks and the Senate in session for five weeks, leading up to the August recess.
OK, so EPA says safe hydraulic fracturing isn’t a threat to the nation’s drinking water. That’s great news for America’s energy revolution, which is being driven by advanced fracking and horizontal drilling. Without them there’s no revolution and certainly fewer jobs and less economic opportunity. Thanks, EPA, for following the science and recognizing – as… Keep reading →
How To Ensure New Natural Gas Infrastructure Doesn’t Lock Out Renewables
By Environmental Defense Fund Energy Exchange BlogIn an ideal world, our electricity system would run on 100 percent clean, renewable energy. Moving toward that goal means transitioning away from a system of centralized, fossil fuel power plants, to an intelligent, efficient, networked energy grid that smoothly integrates vastly increased amounts of renewables and energy-efficient solutions. To do that, we have to… Keep reading →
European Parliament Votes To Continue Requiring Ethanol
By Lynn L. Bergeson | Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.Energy News Roundup: OPEC To Maintain Current Policy, Fossil Fuels Dominant in Canada & Iran’s Sanctions Remedy
By Conor O'SullivanOPEC have pledged to stay the course following a meeting at their headquarters in Vienna on Firday — maintaining with a targeted production level of 30 million barrels per day. “The news was, frankly, just as broadly expected — thanks to the reasonably successful fruits of what has been widely described as a strategy to hold on to market share. “There’s… Keep reading →
Energy & Environment Update – June 2015
By David Leiter, Sarah Litke & Neal Martin | Mintz Levin - ML StrategiesHave International Sanctions Crippled Iran’s Auto Industry?
By Nahid KalbasiThe major industry has been better prepared than expected, but it still suffers from lack of liquidity and sluggish growth due to banking restrictions and other inefficiencies. Although Iran’s economy has been suffering from the adverse effects of intensified international sanctions since 2007, different sectors have shown different levels of fragility. While the monetary sector… Keep reading →