sponsorResources for the Future/Flickr Senator Whitehouse puts climate change on budget committee’s agenda For more than a decade, Senator Sheldon Whitehouse gave daily warnings about the mounting threat of climate change. Now he has a powerful new perch.
Solutionscommons.wikimedia.org Five decades in the making: Why it took Congress so long to act on climate The Senate bill avoided the political pitfalls of past legislative attempts by offering only incentives to cut climate pollution, not taxes.
Politics www.nytimes.com Senators: E.P.A. files undercut Pruitt’s need for first-class travel In a letter, two Democratic senators claim to have a document disputing the E.P.A. chief’s need for costly travel and other security measures.
As Biden prepares to block the sale of U.S. Steel to Nippon Steel, pollution concerns persist in Pennsylvania
A Pennsylvania fracking company with more than 2,000 environmental violations selected for federal environmental justice funding
