Clean Air Act Digest, 9.20.12

UPDATES Congress: Congress will recess at the end of this week, reconvening after the November elections for a “lame duck” session starting on November 13. House of Representatives: Making yet another attack on the environment prior to recessing for the elections, the House leadership has bundled a number of anti-environmental bills into a package called [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 6.29.12

UPDATES Congress: Senate As reported in the previous Digest, supporters of EPA’s standards to reduce mercury and air toxics from power plants won an important victory in the Senate last week, defeating Senator Inhofe’s Congressional Review Act resolution to void them by a vote of 46-53. Follow this link to see how your Senators voted. [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 5.11.12

UPDATES Congress: House The House has begun voting on FY2013 appropriations bills to provide the federal governments’ annual funding, but the Interior-EPA Appropriations bill, which includes funding for Clean Air Act activities, may be too controversial to come to the House floor this year and may instead be rolled into an omnibus appropriations bill late [...]

There is no hope, but we might be wrong. Earth Day 2012 Hotline, 4.23.12

“There is no hope, but we might be wrong.” Earth Day 2012 Edition The Strip | By Brian McFadden published in The New York Times, 4.22.12. Happy Earth Day! Since the first Earth Day, the environmental threats facing our country and planet have worsened, growing exponentially in number and complexity. Even as we learn more [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 3.1.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: Senate Starting this week, the Senate is considering amendments to the Surface Transportation Act, S. 1813.  Senator Collins (R-ME) is seeking to offer an amendment—completely unrelated to transportation—that would block EPA’s standards to reduce mercury and other toxic air pollutants from industrial boilers and incinerators. The amendment is similar to her bill, [...]

Clean Air Act Digest, 2.3.12

UPDATES Congressional Update: In a conference committee meeting February 2nd on the payroll tax bill, House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Fred Upton (R-MI) called for including H.R. 2250, the bill to block EPA’s standards to reduce mercury and other toxic air pollutants from industrial boilers. The House passed H.R. 2250 in October; similar legislation [...]